This is a drawing from my new book, Come Back Soon.
Mayor Guin dictates a letter to Mr. Elephant to invite him to the dedication of the newly completed Hotel Ice Penguin in Icetown. Mayor Guin is the penguin wearing the top hat. They are writing on an icy wood grain stump. In the background on the left corner is an elephant leg carved in the ice. Stairs lead to more rooms in Mayor Guin's home. Somehow the goldfish's water isn't frozen. Just outside the window, some penguins are rolling on Icetown's mode of tranasportation, snowballs.
Drawn with: Prismacolor color pencils, Rotring rapidograph pen on Arches 90 lb. hotpress watercolor paper.
Size: 7 in. x 7 in.
Time: 1 week to sketch and 2 days to draw.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston - 2009
ISBN: 0618694943
Mr. Elephant orders ramen at a Japanese noodle shop in Icetown. The decor is woodgrain ice. The light sconces depict a scene with Mount Funji. Down below, a mother penguin and child are just entering the restaurant. Perhaps the child was curious about Mr. Elephant and begged his mother to investigate.
Drawn with: Prismacolor color pencils, Rotring rapidograph pen on Arches 90 lb. hotpress watercolor paper.Size: 9.75 in. x 9 in.
Time: I had to redrew this three times. The final version took me a week to sketch and another week to render.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston - 2009
This drawing can be found in Daniel's new book, Come Back Soon - ISBN: 0618694943 at Amazon.com:
www.amazon.com/Come-Back-Soon-Daniel-Schallau/dp/06186949...
or your local bookstore:
www.indiebound.org/book/0618694943?aff=hooktrunk
Daniel's website:
www.danielschallau.com
Media: Prismacolor color pencils, Rotring rapidograph pen on Arches 90 lb. hotpress watercolor paper.
Size: 7 in. x 7 in.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston - 2009
This drawing can be found in Daniel's new book, Come Back Soon - ISBN: 0618694943
at Amazon.com:
www.amazon.com/Come-Back-Soon-Daniel-Schallau/dp/06186949...
or your local bookstore:
www.indiebound.org/book/0618694943?aff=hooktrunk
Daniel's website:
www.danielschallau.com
Media: Prismacolor color pencils, Rotring rapidograph pen on Arches 90 lb. hotpress watercolor paper.
Size: 9.75 in. x 18 in.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston - 2009
This drawing can be found in Daniel's new book, Come Back Soon - ISBN: 0618694943
at Amazon.com:
www.amazon.com/Come-Back-Soon-Daniel-Schallau/dp/06186949...
or your local bookstore:
www.indiebound.org/book/0618694943?aff=hooktrunk
Daniel's website:
www.danielschallau.com
Here is the title page for a book I finished in August this past year. It will come out next fall, just in time for the bad economy. This is Icetown, a floating iceberg city where the world famous animal architect, Mr. Elephant, comes to dedicate a newly constructed giant ice penguin hotel which he helped to build several months earlier. Not all goes as planned as Mr Elephant falls victim to his larger than penguin size.
This sketch is part of a book which I have written which will include the other rabbit drawings/carrot drawings I have posted. I usually lay the whole book out like this before starting the remaining final drawings. When the sketches are complete, I will send it off to my publisher in book form for acceptance.

on Icetown sketch