A little "hold" on the book.  I received an email for a Industrial Design project for Waterford Metal Ornaments, so this had to take priority.  12 designs were chosen from my concepts, now mechanicals are due A.S.A.P.
However, I noticed that I didn't put up the last visual to share with you on the development of CeCie for the color.  The image is just a few of the concept drawings from the computer that need to been "seen" for me to critique.  To get to this stage, I drew CeCie by hand, colored him in and then scanned him into Photoshop where I do my airbrushing. I will show the first and final in another Blog to show the difference the computer makes.

Thank you for your patience with the development of CeCie.

Development of a page from sketch to final

Starting with a sketch, I keep cleaning it up until I like it.  Then I color as much as I can by hand with inks and scan it into photoshop. I do a lot of airbrushing on the character to make him look furry and rounded.  I've already made up the background the same way.  I can then "place" the character and resize him if necessary.  I'll put this aside and see if it works well with the story.  I already know I'll be changing his color to a more tan teddy.   See the 5 photos explaining this process.

Half size - dummy book

I forgot to include this very critical "Bible" as I call it.  I use this to start sketching "half size" and get story ideas pasted in...this is constantly changing.  From here I start to go to a loose leaf binder "same size" as the book.  I slip sketches, tracings, ideas, etc from the top opening which gets rather thick as I update this.  I will have 2 loose leaf binders...one for the thoughts & sketches and one for the final drawings, however, the story keeps changing until I send it to the publisher.