It’s a Sunny Life Process

I always enjoy showing off my artistic process, so I hope you don’t mind if I show off how I created a double page spread for my new book “It’s A Sunny Life.” I began with a rough pencil drawing. The grey clouds were added in Photoshop as a time saver.
SunnyLife_Process_roughAfter the rough sketch was approved by the publisher, I printed it out (with the approximate text placement) in blue onto 11×17 Bristol paper.

Why print it in blue? I can easily remove the blue line from the page in Photoshop. I also redrew some elements I wasn’t pleased with with a blue pencil. If you look closely, you’ll notice the extra blue pencil lines in the dog’s body and paws. I then drew the final linework in ink.
SunnyLife_Process_InkI scanned the drawing and removed the blue lines in Photoshop. I also filled the upper right corner with black (which I decided was faster to do on the computer than by hand.)
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And then I colored the spread in Photoshop. Unfortunately, I neglected to save any of the intermediate coloring stages. So I’ll skip ahead to the finished spread from the book with the text added.

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If you’d like to see more, you can find the book on Amazon at this convenient link: