A kind and generous soul with a keen eye has snatched up the sketch for page 28. Thank you! If you were considering it and didn’t get your donation in time, don’t let that stop you! I’m more than happy to do an ink sketch just for you. As I’ve already said, times are tough so take advantage of me when I’m offering myself up cheap!
The original version of page 23 is still available. This is a finished drawing complete with all the bells and whistles. I’ll not be selling finished drawings like this anytime soon. When the pages from this book do become available, I promise they will not go this cheap. A donation of only $85 and you can make a home for this fine piece of art.

In the interest of generating some desperately needed funds, I’m making the unused page 23 available for sale. The first person who donates $85 or more through Paypal will be the proud new owner of this little gem. This page is ink, colored pencil and watercolor on Arches watercolor paper and is 12″x16″. Please be generous as the need is dire. Shipping expenses will be included in the donation. Here’s the piece.

I still have this drawing for page 28 available as well. The first person to donate over $35 through paypal will get this drawing with all shipping and handling included. The drawing measures 12″x16″ and is ink and graphite on Arches watercolor paper. Please find it within yourself to spend a little money on a valuable work of art to help support this project. Thanks for your consideration.

While away in Canada, I had the opportunity to do a little housecleaning on the Process. Page 23 had always bothered me after I finished a couple of the pages after it. It just didn’t seem to fit with the later pages so I updated it to be more on model. Here’s the older version:

Here’s the new version. I think you’ll agree with me that this is more immersive and bolder in it’s execution.

Thanks for reading and please stay tuned. Big things ahead!

I found this the other day and I thought I’d post it up. It’s the first version that I created for the first page. I originally thought that the horizon line on this image should rest just around the half way mark for the page. After doing so, I thought differently and went ahead and redrew the first page that you see here.

Here are the original pages 8 and 9. These pages were scrapped and expanded into what are now pages 8 through 11. The problem I have with these is that the movement of the scrit to the left doesn’t read properly. I wanted to have the movement to seem tentative and hesitant by having him travel against the eye’s natural reading flow but ultimately it’s too awkward. I also felt it important to heighten the suspense by showing a view inside the cave before the action resumes on page 12.
One thing I tried that may or may not work is the use of sound effects to create a rhythm. The reader was to be lulled into the pattern of “skliks”, “pit pats”, and “swiffs” so that they would expect that to continue into page 10. The idea was that the breaking of that rhythm would make the next sequence of events that much more jarring. It’s like the rhyming patterns of poetry. Poems flow along wth the rhyming scheme, but when broken, those lines are disruptive giving emphasis to their content.
So before I give away any clues or spoilers, here are the pages.