I haven't updated anything here in a looooooong time because I've started building up my blog at http://heyjimhill.com

Hope to see you there.

I'm not sure there's ever anything finished, but I'm calling this done.

Finishing up the rough sketches for my book dummy. Here's a pair of "big thumbnails". I do very rough thumbnails to test layouts in a sketchbook. I then go into Adobe Illustrator and sketch it at full size using a brush with pencil & charcoal attributes. Then I place that spread in an InDesign document.

 Just testing out a combination of illustration and production methods while getting the ideas down quickly. It's a new process for me and I'm working out the quirks but getting more comfortable as I go along.

With friends in town all I had a chance to sketch was this caterpillar with assistance from the boys.

Not what I'd usually sketch, but a friend jokes about needing unicorns on a regular basis so I gave her one.

 

Setting up a Posterous account to use a sketch blog. I'll probably end up posting other stuff here too. Hope you enjoy the ride.
 
To start things off, here's a spread from the dummy I'm working on for a story I wrote, "Bobby's Box".