colour tests: for this project, all my colour tests are all digital (painted quickly in photoshop) – so no actual paper involved. In the past, if my final artwork is watercolour, I’ll do quick tests on the same watercolour paper that my finals would be done on. But paper really doesn’t matter that much at this stage – I’m just trying to get a rough colour/mood/approach figured out.

moving drawings from tracing paper to actual paper:
I have a light table. I trace my final art very lightly onto final paper and then redraw everything using the pale tracing as a guideline. Tracing looks too lifeless, so I always redraw the work completely.

size: I prefer to work larger than the final print size – as big as I can – but the paper size is limited in the end by what will fit on a drum scanner. For my work, each illustration is one spread. That’s just a preference and because I tend to do full bleed, double page spreads, that’s all that will fit.

I hope that helps,

-k