After a two month marathon of drawing and painting I have completed all the illustrations for JIM! I sent in my last three illustrations earlier today. Although, I will admit these last three are incomplete. I was eager to get them to my art director before I head out to ALA tomorrow.
It hasn’t sunk in yet that I’ve completed (mostly) all the art, and that in less than a year I will be holding a copy of the book. But it HAS sunk in that I will be in a convention hall full of fellow book lovers many of whom are fans of James Marshall in less than 24 hours and that I better have some kind of celebratory swag to share. I wish I could bring all these originals and show everyone just what it is I’ve been working on over the last sixty some odd days but I think we’ll just have to do with postcards and pins.
Oh, yes, these two months have also been sort of a forced hiatus from social media (I did take a break to share my deal announcement) but I’m looking forward to posting regularly on here again.