Archive for June, 2010
The Progress Continues
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Hello! You still here?
(crickets chirping…)
Um yes, I suppose it has been a while. I’ve been busy! Partly because I now have a day job, one of those necessities for the so-called “pre-published” like me, and partly because I’ve been working on my dummy book.
I’ve finished the “writing a hopefully cohesive plot with hopefully interesting characters” part, and worked out the “storyboard of little illegible scribbles that are hopefully well paced.”
After that, I read in a book that the Great Howard Pyle used to do fifty thumbnail sketches for every illustration he made, in order to make sure that the composition was right. FIFTY! That would mean that, with 36 pages or so, I’d be drawing 1800 of them. That was a little too much dedication for me, considering I want to finish by July 30th, so I did two. (Sometimes three.) And then I arranged my “winners” on cards so I could easily shuffle everything around.
Like this: (pages 6-23)
Flight of the honeybee
Monday, June 7th, 2010
This is for a contest put on by SCBWI-RMC. The prompt for this was “Let creativity take flight.”
I think I got the idea from weeding the garden.