Day 77: Thumbnails

Here are just a few thumbnail sketches for some of the illustrations I'll be doing in the near future. They might not make a lot of sense, but they are to give me an idea how I'm going to lay things out and arrange them. These two will be from the same books. I haven't written them yet, but I know how these stories are going to go. I may not do these right away because I'll probably need some serious reference material before I start on these.

So far I've gotten 3 illustrations done, and have posted starts for the second three. With these six sketches I have 12 of 26 ideas thought out. I have a script and sketches for a school story all done, and an idea for a Little Mermaid book.  The breakdown is more or less like this:

Illustrations
1-3)     3 Bug Themed (2/3 outlined)
4-6)     3 Farm Scenes (finished)
7-9)     3 Cat Story Spreads (thumbnails)
10-12) 3 Humpty Dumpty Story (thumbnails)
13-15) 3 Little Mermaid (1 drawing done... will be re-drawn digitally)
16-18) 3 School Story (3 drawings need to be re-thought digitally)
19-21) Unknown
22-24) Unknown
25-2?) Unknown (2-3 illustrations)

Basically I have 23 illustrations left to do and 8-9 illustrations I haven't thought out quite yet. I'm behind on my plan by 8 illustrations. I plan on doing all of my artwork digitally, but I'm still waiting another month for my computer to come. I may have to bite the bullet and do some of these the old fashioned way (Once I figure out what I'm going to draw the ones I have up I want to do digitally). In any case I need to start doing more sketches that will appear in the final drawings. Also, I'd like to point out that I added the well to last weeks sketches, and forgot to include the tractor, so I added the little tractor here.