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.

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Loot 01

3 print runs

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Loot 02

Translated into 6 languages

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Loot 03

A tree in the publisher's garden

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