This is the logo Bob the Art Director (super nice guy) asked for.
Good news readers… my sketches were approved!
If you follow along with my blog you’ll remember in yesterday’s post I showed you the beginning stages of how I create the characters in the children’s books I work on. This is part two of Creating Characters
( In today’s episode I will be playing the parts of both myself and Bob the Art Director).
So I submitted my sketches to Bob the Art Director (super nice guy) and he was kind enough to get back to me right away with comments. Turns out everything looked good and is approved to go to color with the exception of the boy. I noticed the boy (Carl) strayed off model a little bit so I’ll need to rework that one. I was pretty happy with the other characters so I will proceed to color on those.
You’ll notice in Bob the Art Director’s notes (see sketches below for comments) he needed a logo right away. This kind of thing is fairly common. At the beginning and end stages of a picture book there can occasionally be a bit of scrambling around as publishers gather things to help promote the books. In this case it was a logo of the main character done extra quick.
The next step will be to update the model sheet for the Carl and submit the color versions of the other two characters. Once those are done I’ll begin working on a cover and interior sketches. See you then…
