The Author

The art and story of Green Corner, as well as this website, are created by Emily Gonsalves, a Canadian graphic designer and illustrator. She studied graphic design at George Brown College, majoring in image design (primarily illustration) and corporate design. She specializes in corporate design, particularly branding and corporate image, and optimizing website usability with standards-compliant HTML and CSS. Her work experience includes the following positions: portrait artist and caricaturist at a theme park, engraver at a specialty gift shop, in-house graphic designer for a safety company, and various freelance positions as a graphic designer and illustrator.

Emily's online portfolio website is available here and features illustration and design work. Emily's art blog is available here. You can also purchase prints of her artwork from Emily's Bubblesite.

Tools and Software

Penciled pages of Green Corner are created on copy paper at a size of 5" x 7", using pencils, rulers, French curves, and assorted templates (especially for ovals). An Ames lettering guide is sometimes used to place text. The primary software used to create the digital art is Adobe Illustrator. The book will later be assembled using Adobe InDesign.

If you are interested in the process of taking penciled pages to their final digital version, please refer to this tutorial written by Emily Gonsalves.