In this clip from the podcast, iPad illustrator Raheem Nelson talks about making travel journals and children's book artwork. From the interview: It's been maybe a few years gap between my last book which was about travel paintings and the next. I took this amazing trip to Europe, my first trip to Europe actually. I started in London and then I went to Paris, Barcelona, and then on the tail end Portugal. So I've got all these photos I've taken and paintings that I made while I was there. I wanted to make more paintings and just kind of compile it into a book and then do journal entries for it too. Do you add written stuff next to it? How do you lay it out how do you plan it? So how I plan it is it always starts with the photo reference and then from there I go back to look at anything I wrote while I was there. I usually journal when I go to different places just to record everything. Then the photos go along with that I'm using the photo reference to create. I...
A musician who also draws comics & sells vintage toys full-time