Approval was quick and it was straight into Illustrator to construct the “wire frames”* for 49 girls, one dad, two dogs and a load of toys. Honestly, mind numbing and very ugly. Also quite intense making sure that all the layers were all in the right order. The less said the better! (But this is what it looks like!)
* Strictly speaking it's not wire frame, but just looks like the unadorned lines that ai produces in that mode.
Adobe Illustrator
Making a Roadmap
We decided to finish an internal page and the cover so that Nelly could start promoting the book (reminder– here on Pozible and here at Some Kids Books). Working in Photoshop with all those lovely Kyle T Webster brushes made beautiful images but I realised that with a pressing deadline I wasn’t going to have time, so back to Illustrator, where I am faster and faff less. I felt much was lost and have never been sure of the gains, other than time.
Update: getting the hang of some Illustrator brushes has helped a lot. But gee, gotta watch for that spinning wheel of death. Thank you RetroSupply Co for such great brushes and the wheel concept.