Drawing Woods
The Orchard Picture Book
Thirty-two illustrated pages about a girl who plants one apple tree a year. Pencil, gouache and a lot of patient green.
Client
Bramble Press
Year
2023
Role
Illustrator
Duration
8 months
Difficulty
★☆☆
The boss of this dungeon
Drawing the same tree 32 times so it grows, but always looks like itself.
One tree, thirty-two times
I built a tiny clay model of the tree so the light would stay consistent from page to page. Each spread adds one year of growth.
Colour that ages with the book
The palette warms slowly through the book, so the last spread feels like late summer even before you read the words.
The publisher planted an apple tree when the third print run sold out. It has two apples this year.
Loot · Results
What we brought home.
Loot 01
3 print runs
Loot 02
Translated into 6 languages
Loot 03
A tree in the publisher's garden
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