The third book in my thesis will be a Migration story. The original Migration was meant to be much longer than one short story, so I had to choose one theme short enough to stand on its own. I chose their meeting and started writing a draft with thumbnails that deals with finding valuable friends. Last night I sketched up a new lion and bird that will be the style of the book. I put lion on two legs and kept his face more lion like. Looking back on some earlier sketchbooks, I wanted to get back to stronger decorative marks while keeping a truer look to each animal.
So far, I am going to render it on cold press watercolor paper but may switch to a hot press if I don't love it. What I learned from the other books is to take it slow. I wont be rendering and re rendering pages. In stead, I will do small sketches while doing other work. That way, when Im ready to go, it will run smoothly.
I doubt the mane will stay that way.