The first thing: If you are are a divine being, climbing down from the heavens to create some solid ground on a watery Earth, it’s always helpful to bring along a chicken.

The second thing: Today was a good illustration day. A piece I fought with in the sketch stage, which became my favourite in the drawing stage (when I finally figured it out) and then got away from me during colouring – becoming my least-favourite and causing me much pain and sleeplessness and bad dreams (really) – has come back to me today and was solved! And now it’s a favourite again. I love it when that happens. I just wish it would happen in a matter of hours, not days or weeks.

The third thing: This is exactly how things are (except I don’t have an awesome little dog to share my misery with). (via Drawn)

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This post is part of a series of posts documenting my process of illustrating a picture book. The entire series is archived here. The project began on January 10, 2009, or thereabouts.  Publisher, publish date, author and all those good things will be announced properly in a later posting. (superstitious? Yup, maybe. Not too much, though. Just a little bit. )

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