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1. Green Dragon



Here are some sketches for Josephine Pebbles. The top one is of the flying pirate ship that she rides on and the bottom one is Josephine herself. The manuscript is at a place I'm happy with, thank you so much Alicia, Viviane, Alexis and Frank! I never realized how essential it is to have others read your work! There is so much the writer can miss!
I'm putting the project on hold for about a week while I work on the Jack painting.
While working on Josephine Pebbles I also went back and overhauled the Bera The Troll story and I think it's much better now. I've also gone back to my original idea of doing it as a comic book, especially after reading Mouse Guard.
I'm finding I'm most driven to tell my own stories. This means bigger risks and less money, which I feel I can't afford. It makes things really complicated. And it throw the "get an agent" plan into total confusion. It's hard enough to be an illustrator, doing your own projects makes the path seem that much steeper. I'll keep working on my own projects as well as working on my portfolio, though. Has anyone else any feelings on this? How do you balance things?

14 Comments on Green Dragon, last added: 3/26/2008
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2. Mermaid Library



Here are some more sketches which are loosely related. The top one is for the soon to be released pirate book and the bottom one is a rough for an other pirate story that became Josephine Pebbles. I'm feeling distracted lately. I have too many things I'd like to do but don't officially have a contract. So I have that frustrating floating feeling where I'm working and working but not sure what I'm doing.

12 Comments on Mermaid Library, last added: 3/12/2008
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3. Thumbelina


A new painting! This is from the Hans Christian Andersen story, Thumbelina. It's more of a detail, because it's a little too big for the scanner. This painting is the first of a series I'm doing to build up my portfolio. I'll be doing seven new pieces to add to existing ones, and in the end I hope to have twelve or thirteen paintings that are a really good representation of my work. Most of the pieces will be from well known stories, like fairy tales and classic children's stories. It took a while to get to this point because I had to look at my work and decide which pieces represented me best, what level of finish I wanted. The problem with paintings like this is that they take longer to complete than some other work I do. some pictures take about four days to finish and this one took more than a week. However, I'm most comfortable with showing what I feel is my best work. I'll be taking a few days before starting the next painting, which is from Jack And The Beanstock, as I'll be working on story boards for Josephine Pebbles and doing a small commisioned piece.

24 Comments on Thumbelina, last added: 3/12/2008
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4. Pebbles

Here's the third and last drawing I did for the pirate story, this one is my favorite. I finished a rough script for Josephine Pebbles last night, which was a surprise because I planning to do nothing yesterday. I wrote it fairly quickly and it need lots of revision but it's one of the few stories I've written with a beginning, middle and end and the conclusion makes sense. The theme came to me quickly too, usually I feel like I'm sifting through my words looking for what it means.
I got to see rough version of my next book, The Terrible, Horrible Stinky Pirate and it looks great. The publisher hired a design firm Co&Co, that does amazing work. The fonts are actually funny. The launch date is May 22nd.

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5. Firefox, pimped

Now that I’ve don’t the little talk, I’m curious as to what libraries are actually using with their Firefox installs. I took my best guesses and included some stuff that I use, but what do you use? SkaGirlie starts it off with her list.

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10 Comments on Firefox, pimped, last added: 6/11/2007
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