This drawing of a game pawn and die, suggested by my editor, echoes the "life is playing the odds" theme of my story. We're going to use it as a stand-alone spot illustration on one of the opening pages, and then again as part of a fine repeating pattern for the endpapers. The endpaper effect will be subtle--imagine this drawing shrunken very small and colored beige against a tan background, repeated in a diagonal pattern.
This was just a miscellaneous spot drawing I did of Mom and her dog Hero that we'll also use in the book, probably on the title page. I'm a modest guy, but I've got to say I like how Hero came out: he's attentive, doting, ready to help Mom any way he can. That pretty much captures their relationship, I think.
This is a skectch that won't be in the book, or anywhere else. I described earlier (August 3) some of the decisionmaking that went into designing the cover. This was one idea I had, and I drew it up in about five minutes using a brush-pen that was a new tool for me. This was the first time I'd taken it out for a spin and I liked the line it produced. If I'd discovered it earlier, I might have done the whole book in brush-pen. Colored in Photoshop.Let me know if you'd like to see more unpublished, preliminary, edited or rejected art from Mom's Cancer. I've got bucket-loads of it.
3 comments:
Yeah, show more. I like your trees, by the way, and am impressed that you can draw something like that in just 5 minutes. I'm a bit slower with my work, at a little over 6 minutes. Chalk it up to all the frequent breaks I take, due to my extreme lazy nature. But anyway, yeah, show more. It's always fun to look at the stuff that doesn't make it into a project.
Dave
Thanks, David. I may have been exaggerating about the five minutes. I'm sure I'm lazier than you.
(By the way, David is a brother-in-law and friend of mine. Anyone interested in educational computer games for young children could do much worse than checking out his work on www.amyworld.com.)
Yes, please! I'd be very interested in seeing the other work, & in your comments on your selection process. By the way, even if the "Blog-Only" drawing took 10 minutes, I'd be impressed - I'm still trying to get out of overworking my drawings. Thanks for sharing the publishing process with us!
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