THIS COULD BE A CHILDREN'S BOOK #10.

Hey People!

Within the last week I started with the workout of the pictures. I had to though there are  four pictures quite uncreated. But my timetable said I had to start with the workout, there's no time to lose. And so I have to make these nonexisting pictures on the fly even that's total shit because this will take much time for the workout of one picture than one with a clear state. C'est la vie or more specifically my own fucking fault!

However, here are the first four pictures in the final state. Made in A3 with pencil. It's exiting to work in a bigger way than only in my sketchbook. On average it took me about 4-5 hours for one picture. I hope to get faster with the following ones, otherwise I have to set the deadline for the finished book in March next year. Later this shit will be scanned and colored digital. But first I'm gonna do the remaining 18 pictures. There are four weeks left for that on my timetable. Go!

Cheers, Robert

THIS COULD BE A CHILDREN'S BOOK #9.

Hey folks,

You may have noticed that I've been off for about three months. The reason's not that I lost my motivation and started a career as bank business management assistant or security officer. The reason is the birth of my daughter in April which let me take a break from my creative job. Now, I'm trying to continue the work on my children's book. My plan is to have a finished product in the end of September so that I can show the thing to publishers at the book fair in Frankfurt in early October. Very ambitious! I did a timetable with the different milestones until the end of September. And what can I say? There's fucking much work to do. And I must do a lot of things: finishing the sketches of the pages, doing all workouts, scanning, coloring, doing the layout, looking for potential publishers, making promo material and shit like that... I'm very curious if I will manage this mountain of work while there is a little life around that's begging for attention. I guess I will handle it somehow.

Here is the actual state of affairs. Some of the pictures are very well developed. The missing ones will be created a bit looser and on the fly so I won't take so much time with the previsualisation. My plan is to finish the sketches within the next week and start in week 30 with the workout cuz this will take much time. Very ambitious. Let's do it!

Cheers, Robert