Behind me, before me

elise — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:23:07 +0000

I’ve been burning the midnight oil this past month, finishing off the last of my normal book jobs. We’ve had the oh-so-cute picture book My Boots in Season drawn, painted, fonted and handed in. And then yesterday I rode my bike into the city to hand in Sarindi’s Dragon Kite. What a job that was! Over 70 pencil illustrations to go with this absolutely wonderful children’s novel. I sincerely hope that this book gets some attention as it is a real BOOK. It is set in Indonesia and tells the story of little Sarindi and the events that surround his birthday. It is beautiful writing by Janine Fraser – simple and strong and a hell of a story… an earthquake strikes Sarindi’s homeland and changes everyone’s lives. I’ll let you know when it’s out (published by Harper Collins). In the meantime there are the first two books in the series to enjoy – Sarindi and the Lucky Bird & Sarindi and the Lucky Buddha.

And next??

I get to focus! There’s painting for my exhibition at the end of May, working on my novel at uni and working on the epic graphic novel The Protector. For me – that’s a new experience. Long term projects only and no scattering my head in a thousand different directions each week. How strange.

An Epic milestone for The Protector

elise — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:08:06 +0000

Oh happy day! I’ve finished draft one of the graphic novel!! It’s called the Protector, which was previously the Collector, which was previously, well… many other concepts until it settled into this final form. It’s over 9000 words and 20 pages long and not one syllable of it will be in the final book. I absolutely love how batty that is. So now, I have a plot to work with and all the scenes fully described. Time to edit, make sure it all flows and gradually rework to make sure every frame is doing something useful.

And then I can get drawing.

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Behind me, before me

An Epic milestone for The Protector