The process goes from all that greyscale (think Kansas), through wire framing (the tornado) and into the glorious world of colour (Oz!). This is where I met a new challenge. In other books the characters, and to an extent, the background, repeat from page to page so the colours to be used are determined at the outset. My 49 girls, one dad, two dogs and load of toys each needed its own colour scheme – but they all needed to belong together to keep the book cohesive. And skin colours were important too.
I have had a few false starts, coming back to rework colours as later pages began to require different colours, but I have the palette now.
And now this is an up-to-date blog because the colour roughs have been approved and I am currently working on the details. A fun part as the images come to life.