After I do some extremely loose sketches to jot down and work out ideas, I can see that some of them have legs and others are total floppers. The ones with legs (doesn’t that sound insect-like?) get a more formal sketch… more thought-out composition, etc. Maybe you sent me an initial layout pdf… I love it when I get these because it allows me to put my sketch into context and think about how the type will fit around the image. Being from a design background, I like to design my illustrations to the allow the reader’s eye to move smoothly around the layout.

Like this (see how I have the hummingbird directing you to read the title?):

So finally I email about 2 or 3 tight sketches to you. (I like to work it all out in the sketch stage and have fun painting, but other illustrators give really loose sketches and then transform it in the final stage.)

Here are tighter sketches from the roughs shown in the previous post:

We’ll continue in my next post.

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