Wed. August 17th, 2005

10:00 am - Bit of a slow start this morning. Half wokeup during a nightmare, decided to hold on to it since it had demons and the like. Turned it into more of an art film experience. I'll be posting images as I complete them. I'm hoping to get it all together by 10 tomorrow morning.

6:00 pm - Worked, took a beak for lunch, having trouble focusing. I've been sketching layouts I plan to render in marker on bristol board. I'm about half done with those right now.

8:30 pm - I'm very happy with several of the page layouts. But since I'm going to be printing this book I need to rework some of them. I don't mind having a page with just characters on it, as that is something traditional picture books do. The problem I'm having is they're starting to look like talking heads with no dialogue. At this stage I'm trying to draw out and develop the figures, but I don't want to spend all my time on the layout and then crap out on the marker rendering. Here are some of the more interesting images so far. I'll probably get to the reworks by the weekend. Click thumbnails for larger view.

Lil' Reaper Books' debut project is a story entitled Waldo The Loneliest Demon. This full color book tells the story of Waldo Demon, a hellspawn who eventually becomes a guardian angel. The stages of the creative process for this tale will be shown here, guiding you from it's creation to it's release. Please come back soon to check the status on this project.