page spread – colour rough and greyscale (digital colour over rough sketch).

Sometimes the line drawing gets confusing, so I find it’s necessary to drop some colour in there to see if the composition will still work.

The wall o’ final roughs so far. There are still a couple of empty spaces.

I’ve moved on to my final chunk of tight roughs. These pages take place in a nebulous sort of dream place and it’s fun coming up with dream imagery. However, as my own dreams often involve pursuit by zombies, I’ll refrain from relying on personal experience and instead pull from the pool of things I have most fun drawing. Jellyfish drifting through space? Sure. Humpback whales diving through the clouds. Of course!

Firebird/the sun + reference.

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