Friday, March 2, 2012

in Ballookey's pocket

I had another plan, but the pocket of this book is already overflowing with stuff, so I had to make something small and flat. I don't know if you follow all my other blogs \ facebook \ flickr, but in the past few months I've been using a phone app called "sketchbook mobile" to make drawings on my phone. I usually take a picture and use it as a reference in the app, and combine tracing with freestyle finger drawing. Since Ballookey does a lot of computer art, I decided to use my phone app to make this little book and all the drawings and text here are made on the phone (this project totally saved me during a very boring meeting on Thursday...) hummingbirdbook-1 hummingbirdbook-2 hummingbirdbook-3 hummingbirdbook-4 hummingbirdbook-5 You can see all the illustrations here.

7 comments:

Mary Stebbins Taitt said...

WOW! That is SUPER! You are always so creative! AMazing and fun!

Mike Kline said...

Cool work! I especially like the smoking man in "Suppose I say Summer..."

Something Different said...

What a great idea. You are so prolific Aya. Wow

ballookey said...

I think the very second book I got was already overflowing - I had meant to put more things in people's pockets but I was afraid the spines couldn't hold up, so I'm just sending out packets to people separately.

These tiny books are great - that's such a great way to use artwork from the phone. Once again, you've inspired me to try something!

Mary Stebbins Taitt said...

The pocket thing is definitely a problem--I've been putting pocket items in separate envelopes to protect the books lately.

Mary Stebbins Taitt said...

Sending little treats to people sounds like a great idea.

roma said...

These are great, Aya. I downloaded the app and will try using it while on my Vietnam trip. I don't like any of my current apps, but anything by Autodesk has been pretty easy to use and very versatile.