The Work-Around Work-in-Progress

I’m into the serious ‘action’ part of the story in Rescued now. There is a lot going on and capturing it in one image means that I have to play with perspective. I also need everything to make sense when lined up with spreads from previous pages. (If the barn is west of the house, it needs to stay west of the house, no matter what direction we are looking at. This wasn’t a key skill I learned in my training as a medical illustrator.)

The spread for pgs 15-16 presented quite a challenge. The two girls are making snow dinosaurs, the dog is still guarding the barn and the barn doesn’t sound like it feels too great. On top of that, the parents are shoveling snow off the roof of the house…in the background….and need to be about an eighth of an inch tall.

How to accomplish this without my eyeballs falling out could be tricky.

Except….there is always Photoshop.

No parents…..

Parents sketch 5″x7″

Parents colored 5″x7″

Parents imported, masked and scaled to the standardized size of teeny-tiny. Dad even has teeny-tiny snow coming off his shovel.

This still needs a little work, but I have an animation due by Monday, so that’s it for now.