We contact each other daily. Sherryll is busy writing, revising, soliciting critiques from colleagues and past editors, devising promotional and cross marketing ideas. She forwards me ideas to help "visualize" each of the many scenes that will make up the picture portion of the book. We make trips to the local bookstore to seek guidance from some the masters: Dr. Seuss, Lucy Cousins, Melanie Watt, Robert Munsch and Michael Marchenko. My intention is to weave the fabric of the illustrations with the threads of so many well loved images, visited and revisited so many times: reading the classics to our kids; re-watching Bugs Bunny, the Flinstones; reading Krazy Kat, Calvin and Hobbes and the Far Side. hopefully the graphite and paper gods smile on me this weekend as I sketch, erase and fatten a cheek or shave an eyebrow. Character development is essential to the process - once a character sketched out is finally defined it will flavour the whole book - then to the painting - with colour the images will really come to life…
* Dan
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