Now that I have worked out the major scenes for
the book I will start on designing art to fit a 32-page book using page spreads
and vignettes. It's a lot like a
comic strip where I can plan more detailed sequence of events but still the art
will be rough so I can feel free to make changes without investing a too much
time as I will make many changes to the rough sketches as I go along.
This is also the part of the process where I
think about how the images flow across the pages and work with the story copy.
I will do this a many times in the process of the book to get the right feel
for the book because it must work as a whole. I want to vary the layouts so the
book is interesting and dynamic page-to-page.
Here is a 32 page a blank storyboard template. You can download this image to work on your own books.
After the storyboard is worked out, I make a
small rough book dummy, which I will demonstrate later in my blog.
We were very fortunate to score the book trailer with the
beautiful, haunting song "Say Your Name" by the internationally known
musician, Keith Secola.
