We got a Winner!
A big thank you goes to everybody who took the time to complete the survey I launched three weeks ago. It was of really great help and I have already […]
Tag Archives: fairytale book
A Kobold in the Kitchen
While I am still polishing and rewriting some parts of my fairytale, after having gotten some very valuable feedback from my beta-readers, I thought that I could post a “before” […]
Beta-Reading Below the Floor
I sent out my manuscript of the fairytale story Below the Floor to some of my friends and asked them to give me honest feedback. Apart from me trusting them, […]
Prototype Print for the Fairytale Book
Last week, finally a little package arrived. Inside were the prototype books I had ordered to check the look and feel of the fairytale Below the Floor. It was thicker […]
Lessons Learned from Creating a First Children’s Book – I
The Creation of the fairytale book Below the Floor is going well and as I mentioned in my last blog post, it is time to recap some of the lessons […]
How To Get To A First Draft
Do you have a story in mind which one day you want to let grow into a script or manuscript, but you don’t know how to start? And you don’t […]
See the Final Colour Scheme of the Fairytale Caterpillar Metro
As a returning reader you might know, that I am pretty far with the creation of the illustrations for my first fairy tale book, Below the Floor. Below you can […]
Finally the First Coloured Illustration
If you have read the two last posts, Fighting the Paper I and Fighting the Paper II, you might already know of some of the challenges I enountered (and how […]
Fighting the Paper II
A look behind the creation of a hand drawn fairytale children’s book by John E. Brito.
Fighting the Paper I
As soon as I had finished all the necessary pen and ink illustrations for the fairytale book Below the Floor, I started doing the first colouring tests. And, honestly, the […]
Say Hello To The Courageous Little Hero Kobold
I am still busy working on the illustrations I need for the fairytale book and things are going well. Below is the final version of Leto, the little hero of […]
Bringing The Freeze
The last weeks have been really hot here in Austria. The thermometer was indicating up to 38 degree Celsius (100 °F, 311 K) and my brain seemed to switch to […]
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