Daniel Schallau

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

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. 

I a finally posting the final drawing of the sketches I posted last year.  I think the rabbit in the sketches is much cuter.  Anyway, note the carrot moon and rabbit moon outside the window.