The Fox Child - Complete!

Okay. Holy cow, haven't updated with serious stuff in a while.

So, my 32 page book The Fox Child has been finally finished! I'm getting it printed through Blurb.com and hopefully I can send some copies to some publishing companies along the way! I really enjoied working on a project like this, so this really opened a whole new world of illustration for me. I've also started to definately find more of my style, how I work, and my personality as well. Overall, this project (while it almost killed me to finish, nothing a few cups of coffee and some very long nights can't solve) was an extreamly beneficial t

hing for me as an artist and person. I can not show you the text of the book, or all of the pages (for simple privacy reasons), but hopefully the ones I do show you can inspire you.

For those of you who do not know, the story is about a girl who meets a mysterious fox fairy... and discovers many surprises along the way. I have had this fox character created since highschool, and I'm so happy to see him in a finished product...it's very personal to me. This book consists of 32 pages, and I had 10 weeks to make it. I removed the text for privacy reasons. It was a lot of work, but I really really enjoied the whole process. Even if I was the editor, publisher, art director, illustrator and writer.

The first is the book cover (front and back). The following after that are page spreads (meaning a page on each side, so each spread is 2 pages). It is an 8" x 10" standard landscape book.

Here's a preview of 14 of the 32 pages.

Copyright © Amanda Leigh Mullins

sketches

Process work for assignments and sketches...

Illuminating

Design for a bus wrap image...

Snowman

Possible Christmas card design? Not sure. Snow is very soothing to paint...

Moon Bunny

This was done for my Advertising Illustration class. We had to design 4 sides for a tissue box, and this is what came up with. It's loosely based off of the eastern Asian folklore tale about a rabbit living in the moon that pounds rice cakes. I decided to have the box depict a sequence of events as the rabbit sees the sky, jumps up and turns into the moon with tissues becoming the stars.

layout sketches

yayyyyy.

Ghost/Monk/Priest Goat

A couple weeks ago I had to choose a topic out of a list of 20 in class and illustrate it in 1 hour. My topic I chose was "ghost goat". After a bit of tidying up, here it is. Not quite a ghost, more like a priest or monk maybe...

Catfish

The Girl and the Fox - Top 3 Finalist

The Girl and the Fox, a short animated film by Base14 studios, has been chosen as one of the top 3 finalists for the Student Emmy Awards. Director Tyler J. Kupferer along with Producer Nick Allred are being flown over to LA for free to participate in the ceremony! What a great opportunity!

This was a student film I had the great pleasure to work on alongside of many other talented artists. I was hired as layout artist and designer for the backgrounds - so I definitely can't wait to see how the awards go!

The Fox Child cover

Book cover idea for my ongoing series "The Fox Child"