Just Finished My Grad Show (only A Year Late) Having Everything Laid Out Looks So Good!

Just finished my grad show (only a year late) having everything laid out looks so good!

I’m very proud of all the progress I was able to make over three years while at HCA. Way back in 2017 I was totally different in my illustrations and attitude, hopefully I keep improving in the future as much.

I had the largest spread in in the illustration room which I find pretty funny. I’d blame all my big ass prints. I wasn’t able to hang my banner over my work but it looks good enough ;)

Transcript of my show’s blurb under the cut if you want to read it.

Firbetmakes

Bethany Bronwyn Curtis

“Madeleines and Latte’s Sweet Adventure” - Children's Non-Fiction Book Proposal

For this project I created a proposal for a children's non-fiction book centering around sweet foods from around the world. Each chapter would focus around a different country's food with illustrations of traditional holidays and cuisine.

To complete this project I created one sample chapter for the proposed book around Germany’s cuisine. These illustrations set up the general flow and presentation I would imagine for the rest of the book. I also designed two characters to explore the world and give context and immersion into the scenes.

I wanted to create a non-fiction book which I would be interested in as a child. For this book I looked at how to present this information in an interesting and immersive way so that the reader would be better able to engage in foreign cultures.

Throughout the process of designing aspects of the book I determined to break from stereotypes and conventions which I found to be unnecessarily restricting. A couple of examples were overly gender coding characters and presenting intrestets in sweets as a negative thing.

While stereotypes and conventions can be very useful when constructing a story (especially for younger audiences) I feel that leaning too far into these stifles some artists' abilities and can negatively affect a child's view of the world. Allowing more variety in the presentation of characters or viewpoints of the world would only benefit a child’s development even in media which does not focus around these breaks from convention.

With this book I would hope to create stronger bonds with other cultures through food and genuine interest in each other's cultures. This first book is focused on sweet food however if I were given the opportunity to make more I would look at savoury meals, celebratory meals, or drinks.

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AroAce Wolf for Aromantic - Asexuals.

Flying high in the sky (don’t ask me how, pretty sure they jumped). Pretty good view form up there though.

Nice to have some colours kinda familiar ti me, maybe my mascot colours weren’t as much a coincidence as I thought.

Be sure to check back for the last wolf, and some pay off

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Litho Wolf for all the Lithoromantics and Lithosexuals.

They carry a big ass axe because that’s cool... look not everything can have a deeper meaning.

Fist wolf I finished and I still love the expression the most, a good strike between softness and seriousness. Not sure how I managed it.

Another post tomorrow, how you like it!

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Aspec Wolf for the whole A-spectrum.

Little flag bearer for us all, supporting us through everything. They may not be able to fight, but he sure can buff you’re stats by 20% for that one boss fight you really don’t like.

Urgh took so long for the fur pattern to work out because of the completely different colours, so glad it came out great.

You can probably guess who the next wolf is, check back to see if your right

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Painted a little dice dragon I bought from dragonsandbeasties a while back. Been a big fan of their work for years so it’s nice to finally be able to buy one of their figures (;

Ace Wolf for all the Asexuals, Demisexuals, and Graysexuals.

This wolf is a little bit of a hybrid themselves so be careful around their sharp teeth. Still great to be around so don’t worry if they breath some fire.

Such a simple colour scheme I had to add in some black to vary them a bit.

Congrats if you got it right, one of my favs coming tomorrow

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