Category: Artistic Process
June 16, 2011
We’ve returned to our home in Amherst this week and I am happy to be back in New England. I’ve handed in the first draft of the second WondLa book and will be starting the jacket art very soon. Yay!
May 3, 2011
Although it is not out until early next year, DiTerlizziland has been in a twitter for The Search for WondLa as a paperback edition. We decided to redesign the jacket for the paperback, a process similar to one that I’ve gone through before with Spiderwick. For WondLa, it was a chance to capture the mood …
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March 4, 2011
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a couple of wonderful watercolor renditions of a Spiderwick nixie and mermaid from Mason. Shortly thereafter, we received a follow up piece from him that, I think, is much stronger. The difference: he created this on his iPad. Wow. Normally I would move onto another submission of fan …
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February 21, 2011
About a month ago I posted a bunch of old Dungeons & Dragons art from the early part of my career on my facebook page, (which were well received to my utter delight). As I scanned the dingy drawings, I realized that some were pushing 20 years old already…yikes! This was on the heels of …
Continue reading “TD does DAT”
February 17, 2011
I took a coffee break this afternoon and walked back into my Florida office to see this perfect still life. It reminded me that I should announce that the second installment of the WondLa trilogy is well on its way. When I started outlining The Search for WondLa, I planned what I hoped to be …
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January 24, 2011
(This was one I totally spaced out and forgot to post from awhile ago. I was reminded of it when I came across the files on my computer). Design Popular Imagination magazine (or DPI, for short) based in Taiwan, China, did a nice interview on yours truly last year. For those interested, the jpegs here …
Continue reading “You know, I am BIG in Asia…sort of.”
December 8, 2010
Jon Schindehette, the Creative Art Director for Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast, invited me to participate in his “How I Made it” series over at his blog in hopes that my story may offer up some seeds of inspiration for up-and-coming fantasy artists. In fact, I found his blog to be INCREDIBLY …
Continue reading “Back in 1982…no wait, 1992…”
July 5, 2010
Fellow illustrator Aaron Zenz and his hilarious kids ask all the right questions at his Bookie-Woogie blog. Enjoy!
April 24, 2010
One of my favorite morning activities with my daughter, Sophia, is drawing and coloring. We’ve drawn and colored all sorts of subjects. We’ve illustrated favorite nursery rhymes: …getting dinner at a well-known restaurant… …and even rendered other fun 2 1/2 year-old activities. You know, like bubble-popping. In fact, I now let her tell me what …
Continue reading “Coffee and Sippy Cups”
February 23, 2010
Doing a school report titled “Your Favoritist Book Creator of All Time”? When is your college term paper on “The Most Stupendous Writer-Artist-Guy of the 21st Century?” due? Perhaps you want to break into the industry of making books for kids…or perhaps you just need to know more about me than my own parents. Whatever …
Continue reading “Updated FAQs”
October 27, 2009
I know its been a little quiet here on the blog front. That would be because I am locked down in my Florida office, knee-deep in writing the second draft of my next novel, The Search for WondLa, which will be out next fall (For those of you who attended an event during the “Spiderwick …
Continue reading “Seven Impossible Things Interview”
May 8, 2009
TGIF! What a week in DiTerlizziland! I have been up to my eyeballs in creating the artwork for the Spiderwick finale, The Wyrm King. As I continue my drawing/inking warm-ups for each day’s session, I have been rendering some fun stuff that is looong overdue to some of my friends – including this pen & …
Continue reading “Friday Fan Art (I.O.U. #1)”
May 1, 2009
This week I did, in fact, sketch a whole lot more. However, I found myself working on characters and scenes from my new novel…and I am not quite ready to unveil that world just yet…so you’ll have to wait a bit before I share those sketches. But I broke out the pen and inks (and …
Continue reading “Back in the Saddle Again (Again)”
April 23, 2009
I realize I’ve been doing a lot of writing, designing, plotting, and even a little art-directing lately. But the one thing I haven’t done a lot of is some serious drawing. As I warm up to begin the interior art for the last Spiderwick book, The Wyrm King, I blow the dust off of some …
Continue reading “Back in the Saddle”
April 18, 2009
This week I enter the home stretch on my journey of searching for the strongest jacket image to represent the new package design for the first-ever collection of The Spiderwick Chronicles books. After viewing John Lind’s design for the Spiderwick exhibit program from last year, I began exploring a simple illustration from the book that …
Continue reading “Repackaging Spiderwick (part 3)”
April 10, 2009
My quest for a successful cover to the upcoming Spiderwick collection continues with a brief exploration into Art Nouveau. The Spiderwick art is actually influenced by this artistic movement, especially the notion of nature’s spirit (the fey-folk) twisting its writhing tendrils around mankind. These two explorations were my attempt at making Spiderwick feel more classic …
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March 23, 2009
I thought it would be fun to share a little bit of process that I usually don’t discuss much, which is the design work that goes into a book’s jacket. As an illustrator, my focus is often set on creating a quintessential image to capture the story within. Oftentimes, good design and typography can do …
Continue reading “Repackaging Spiderwick (part 1)”
March 18, 2009
I am excited to unveil the cover to the third, and final, Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles book. This is also the grand finale to my favorite faerie series. This arrangement, of a character facing off with another, is a composition I’ve used throughout all of the Spiderwick books starting with book 1. I thought it …
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