I had a considerable measure of fun working with the people at Random House — including one of Richard Scarry's real craftsmanship chiefs, and his child, Huck — to make a unique pencil and watercolor piece portraying Busytown. There is such a great amount of going ahead in Busytown that I thought I'd demonstrate a couple of closeups here and in addition discuss the procedure.he attracting was done pencil, then checked digitally and printed out in strong dark on clear film, or acetic acid derivation.
The attracting was then exchanged to representation board in blue pencil so I could deal with the sketch on a different layer.
Scarry's system permitted him to work pretty freely with his watercolors, and he'd oftentimes paint off-register, that is, not exactly up to (or way past) the line drawing. This gave his representations a much more carefree quality. For our situation, its Richard Scarry's Best Google Doodle E