I've moved onto the issue as to how to color Emily's Child, and I've always thought of going for a more realistic look, but not in the same style as Alex Ross's; at least what I imaged the final panels would look like never resembeled his renderings as far as I could tell. Turns out I found something similar in my papa's collection of recycled (library and other reading places's discards) children's books to what I was thinking of having. The books was apparently part of the Reading Rainbow series and is titled "Daddy's a Monster...Sometimes" -my papa has a lot of "dad" related children's material for some reason- and is written and illustrated by this fellow named John Steptoe. I could only find two images of his this book (barely a cover photo)
It's uniqe even to this artist, but I just love the "feel" to these paintings. I guess one could consider it an "Impressionistic" approach to rendering, and other than the strange background patterns for every picture this style portrays the sprit of the characters and their backgrouns (community, settings, culture, etc) extremely accurately! All of John Stepoe's work is just as unique or illustrative like Ross's, but if you know of any illustrated book like this one, please let me know!
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