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John Aardema
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illustration - miss poos-I used up the last of my season tickets to the opera last weekend. I saw “Der Rosenkavalier” by Strauss. Lots of rich costuming. Lots of waltzing. It was really terrific, even though the entire opera clocked in at four hours! Anyway, on the train ride home, I sketched this whimsical little number. Not that there’s any costumed cats in the show, of course. Although it would be fun to try my hand at drawing something from Janácek’s opera “The Cunning Little Vixen”. - Aardema, John
I used up the last of my season tickets to the opera last weekend. I saw “Der Rosenkavalier” by Strauss. Lots of rich costuming. Lots of waltzing. It was really terrific, even though the entire opera clocked in at four hours! Anyway, on the train ride home, I sketched this whimsical little number. Not that there’s any costumed cats in the show, of course. Although it would be fun to try my hand at drawing something from Janácek’s opera “The Cunning Little Vixen”.
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illustrator - portfolio - Aardema, John - claude claude the vampire moth-This is Claude Claude. He's the main character in my picture book dummy--Claude Claude, The Vampire Moth-- which won first place in the 2006 SmartWriters.com book dummy division! Yay, me!
illustrator - portfolio - Aardema, John - claude's class-This is Claude Claude's classroom. He's not there because he's skipping school. He must be celebrating the fact that I won first place in the 2006 SmartWriters.com book dummy division.
illustrator - portfolio - Aardema, John - verve-An art director told me she really liked my work, but asked if I could draw a character consistently over the amount of illustrations needed for a picture book. She suggested that I draw some animal characters in different positions and add it to my portfolio. I wanted animals that were very different from each other, and I decided the group would consist of a mammal, a bird, and an amphibian. South Africa’s indigenous species gave me a variety to choose from. Here is the next character study in the series. Verve is the first character I drew. I picked a vervet monkey because I liked the challenge of drawing a character with a face that is all black. It’s a unique look and it gave me a character that’s very visually striking.
illustrator - portfolio - Aardema, John - crockadilly-Here is the another character study in the series. I drew the bird and the monkey, and had decided the next character would be an amphibian. I wanted a water character to keep the group well-rounded. I chose a crocodile because that would give me a tall, upright character. I also decided to make the crocodile uncrocodile-like by giving her the personality of a little girl. The color pink was an afterthought. Since the other two characters were of a warm palette, and the environment she would be drawn in would either be blue (water) or green (jungle), I picked a color that would visually tie her to the other characters and make her stand out from the background.
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