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Some people asked me how the illustrations are done for my books.
The three images show the original sketches of three double pages which are in my second Kulla book. Normally I stick very close to the sketches although on canvas it´s kinda hard to hit the right colors (especially evening colors are a pain in the ass).

The right side is "plain" because the text will be on that page. Normally I test the canvas "page" with a dummy text foil.

The original text gets split into pages and after that I do the sketches. I have a layout which I print out (including name and page-numbers). On those I sketch with pencil and scan everything for the rough coloration in photoshop. Those colored sketches get printed out again (yes... i know it´s odd) and discussed with my editor. If some sketches don´t work I have to redo the whole process until the final sketches get an okay.

One illustration (the last one) is that one (only the left part):
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Kulla © me & Tokyopop Germany
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~shucupa Aug 8, 2011  Professional
very cute''
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Mood: Love ~belyra Jan 7, 2010
WOW!! It's so cute!!
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~belyra Jan 7, 2010
WOW!!! It's so cute!
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~wailing Aug 10, 2009
aww so cute!:)
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*BlueVagabond Jun 15, 2009   General Artist
danke, das ist großartig ^^
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Mood: Joy ~angelofchains Jun 3, 2009  Student Traditional Artist
You know.. I said before... I would love if it was in english.. but you know what.. Even if it's not in english... I still might buy it.. I would just need a way to get it from Germany to the US.... Can you buy Kulla online? like from Lulu.com/amazon.com or anything like that?
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`trenchmaker Jun 3, 2009  Professional Digital Artist
amazon.de and amazon.jp sell it as well as some companies on ebay.
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~ReineDeLaNuit May 19, 2009
nice!!!
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:iconzindy:
*Zindy May 6, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
Cute cute cute :)
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*LordIceFox May 5, 2009  Student Traditional Artist
I don't know why but, this gives me memories of all the Russian children's stories I've read while learning the language. I slowly learn from them, only because two languages seems all my mind can handle without forgetting it, but it still reminds me of them.
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