After getting permission from my publisher today, I'm able to share with my readers what portions of the children's book drawings look like. I'm sure the 3.8 readers I have will be excited to see them.
There's a lot of talent involved with these books and I'm grateful to be a part of it. Someone does the sketches, which are in blue pencil. Following that, the drawings come to me to ink digitally in Adobe Illustrator using my Wacom Tablet. Afterwards, they receive color which is again, done by someone else. It's very similar to the process of how comics are published.
Spammers and trolls have sunk to a new low. You ever get one of those emails that starts off, 'My name is Xanita Iamspammingyouwitz. My father has become deathly ill and we are in desperate need of means to transfer our life-savings...blah blah.' Yeah, ok. Let me get right on that for you. Let me introduce you to the delete button. Him and I are friends. You and I are not. This wasn't an actual email, but in a private message sent to me from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's message forums. I'm like, really? As if scamming of that nature isn't bad enough, we're going to scam off cancer too? Nice.
I changed my banner up top, in case you hadn't noticed. Ah, the power of HDR.
I need to update the photography sections and some other things too. I've been pretty occupied with working on the illustrations for the children's books and our new photography blog. Which can be found here. In the meantime, I'll see if I can post parts of the inking I've done on the books so my readers can have I idea of what they look like.
~Jonathon
