I recently found a note that I wrote to myself following a book I illustrated in 1998. It was pertinent then and still is now.
I need to glue this to the wall in front of my work area. Especially find exclusive time.
August 1998
Plan!!!
Find exclusive time
Organize
§ sketches
§ photos
§ pages
§ space
o Establish characters
§ Location
§ Colour sketches
COMMUNICATE – don’t hide – admit what you don’t know
Re-Learn your colours – what comes off easily /who can cover who
o Skin tones
o Colour in shadow and light (what colour is a shadow)
o Colours under different moods and illumination
o Colour harmonies
PREP
o Paint anything and everything
o Ask what is the nature of this thing
o Paint – mood
§ -texture
§ Personality
KEEP NOTES
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