Character isadora moon8/8/2023 I am.an Art Discovery volunteer for a.class.ĥ. A successful art lesson with a class.this week. A good class with fifth graders on Friday. Meeting with the board of VoiceCatcher, a.local online journal. We’ve been at our new place 15 months and I finally have our garage so I can park inside.Ģ. The Squirrel Girl.looks costume looks like a success. Jules, so glad you introduced us to Harriet. New kickers are always welcome.Ħ) The girls’ Halloween costumes are DONE!ħ comments to “7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #507: Featuring Harriet Muncaster” Note for any new readers: 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks is a weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week, whether book-related or not, that happened to you. The pictures are created using pen and ink and watercolour.Īll images used by permission of Harriet Muncaster. It is so much fun being able to really get into the stories and develop the characters. I adore Isadora Moon and the world that she lives in, and I have loved being able to write longer stories than picture book length. It’s been amazing to work on a project that has come so much from my heart and that I am so passionate about. Working on the Isadora Moon series had been an absolute dream. This time there was interest in the book and I was lucky to get a four-book deal for an Isadora Moon series with Oxford University Press. Once I had written a story and illustrated it, I sent it of to my agent, who then sent it to publishers. I then decided that if Isadora Moon was half-vampire, she should have little fangs too. What species was she? I decided the reason she had fairy-like bat wings was because her mum was a fairy and her dad was a vampire. When I had drawn her, though, I started to wonder why she had little bat wings. I basically wanted to make her a child version of Victoria Stitch, looks-wise. I started out creating Isadora Moon by sketching out character designs for her. Pink Rabbit suits Isadora Moon so well, and he is much happier being with a gentler and kinder owner now. I debated over whether I should give Victoria Stitch’s Pink Rabbit to Isadora Moon, and in the end I decided to. Victoria Stitch was just the path that led me to create her. So, Isadora Moon was born! She is a much friendlier, sweeter version of Victoria Stitch and also a character in her own right. I decided that a highly illustrated young fiction book would work well. I went away and decided that the whole pink and black/gothic aesthetic was too good to waste and that I should create something that still had the same aesthetic but was more child-friendly at the same time. However, I was always told she was “too mean,” “too spiky,” “too adult” for children’s books but that if I wrote a more grown up book about her, I would lose the illustration side of things. ![]() I really liked the aesthetic of this and so did the publishers I showed my Victoria Stitch work to. ![]() ![]() ![]() She evolved as my work evolved over the years and eventually ended up being drawn in a purely pink and black style. I wrote and illustrated two (unpublished) books about Victoria Stitch while I was at university, and after my degree I continued to work on her. Ten years ago, I created a different, more adult character, called Victoria Stitch, who was a mean gothic fairy with a stuffed toy, Pink Rabbit, that followed her around everywhere. Looking back, it was about seven years in the making, although I didn’t realise it at the time. Harriet: Isadora Moon feels like something I was on track to create for a very long time. Let’s get right to it, and I thank her for visiting. In the spirit of Halloween, British author-illustrator Harriet Muncaster visits 7-Imp today to tell us all about her series, Isadora Moon, which features a girl who is half-vampire and half-fairy.
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