Illustrator Report – Kerby Rosanes
Tessa Richards
For Manila based artist, Kerby Rosanes, illustration was a hobby turned part-tine freelance, turned full time career. He started out drawing and doodling to fill time at work and began posting his art online. He soon grew a large following of sites like Tumblr and DeviantART before he was commissioned to turn his illustrations into a colouring book for adults, called Doodle Invasion, in 2013. By 2014, Rosanes realised he could make a career out of his ‘doodle art’ so he quit his job as a graphic designer to pursue illustration full time. Since then he has had four more books published, including New York Times bestseller Animorphia and a collection of his sketchbook art called Sketchy Stories. …show more content…
The description of this piece on his blog says that Rosanes was commissioned by a Japanese client to create a piece celebrating Miyazaki’ most notable characters. The work combines his usual cartoonish style with Miyazaki’s iconic characters from films such as My Neighbor Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle and Spirited Away. The original piece was created entirely with Uni Pin Fine Liners on paper and took over 12 hours to complete. He uploaded images of his progress to his Tumblr blog (kerbyrosanes.com/post/59964792042) showing his drawing process. It shows how he first sketched a detailed plan of everything he wanted to draw in pencil before he then went over the pencil and added shadows with a 0.3mm fine liner before using a 0.05mm fine liner to add detail. Only hours after the project went viral, it was announced that Hayao Miyazaki was retiring. Rosanes says that if he had known about Miyazaki’s retirement and if it was not a commissioned piece he would have “loved to include all [Miyazaki’s] characters… as a way of appreciating his contributions to the world and to me as one of my creative inspirations.” Rosanes is a huge fan of Miyazaki’s and grew up watching Studio Ghibli films so this is another of his favourite
Tessa Richards
For Manila based artist, Kerby Rosanes, illustration was a hobby turned part-tine freelance, turned full time career. He started out drawing and doodling to fill time at work and began posting his art online. He soon grew a large following of sites like Tumblr and DeviantART before he was commissioned to turn his illustrations into a colouring book for adults, called Doodle Invasion, in 2013. By 2014, Rosanes realised he could make a career out of his ‘doodle art’ so he quit his job as a graphic designer to pursue illustration full time. Since then he has had four more books published, including New York Times bestseller Animorphia and a collection of his sketchbook art called Sketchy Stories. …show more content…
The description of this piece on his blog says that Rosanes was commissioned by a Japanese client to create a piece celebrating Miyazaki’ most notable characters. The work combines his usual cartoonish style with Miyazaki’s iconic characters from films such as My Neighbor Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle and Spirited Away. The original piece was created entirely with Uni Pin Fine Liners on paper and took over 12 hours to complete. He uploaded images of his progress to his Tumblr blog (kerbyrosanes.com/post/59964792042) showing his drawing process. It shows how he first sketched a detailed plan of everything he wanted to draw in pencil before he then went over the pencil and added shadows with a 0.3mm fine liner before using a 0.05mm fine liner to add detail. Only hours after the project went viral, it was announced that Hayao Miyazaki was retiring. Rosanes says that if he had known about Miyazaki’s retirement and if it was not a commissioned piece he would have “loved to include all [Miyazaki’s] characters… as a way of appreciating his contributions to the world and to me as one of my creative inspirations.” Rosanes is a huge fan of Miyazaki’s and grew up watching Studio Ghibli films so this is another of his favourite