"The Moment Before I Lost My Mom" Kids Book Project Progress for SCBIW Portfolio Preview. . .and eventually Self Publish by April 2020

[2MK]

@Squirrel-Size That's wonderful! It's nice that you're able to take an idea all the way to this stage in a matter of time. Looking forward to the finished book!

[Su]

So happy for you! The book came out wonderfully! Yes, SCBWI is a wonderful organization and their conferences are so inspirational. Hope you had a spectacular portfolio sharing experience!

[Elizabeth Rose]

Helloooooooo!
Long time no see! How have you all been? I'm sooo excited for the holiday break!
I'm back at it you all! So I've let the book pickle for a while and now I'm ready to be back at it! I have been going to school the last three months and I've not had much time to work on my book. I've just been showing it to family, friends, and people getting their feedback. I've gotten a whole bunch of pre-orders
I've edited and changed a few things in the book and now I'm now coloring it!!

Here is what I have so far on this spread:

I've been going back and forth between self publishing or traditional publishing. They both have pros and cons. I don't remember if I mentioned earlier, but my dream would be for every book sold, one given away to someone who couldn't afford one or just needs a special gift during a hard time in life. I would love to give stacks away to foster kids and funeral homes and what not. I feel like self-publishing would for sure give me the freedom to do that. But its going to be a ton of work on my end. Publishing through a company would be less work for me, but I would also not have much say in a lot of it. Any thoughts anyone?

[APHOTICMOTH]

If you want to have it picked up by a publisher, should you just send it in as it is? It's still a dummy at this point even though it's pretty refined. I could see publishers loving it, there is a need for books on coping with loss.

Either way, I love it and want one whenever it is published.

[Coley]

Hey, glad to see you back! I love the colors and light in this spread! Really looking forward to seeing progress

[Elizabeth Rose]

@CLCanadyArts Awe, thanks Yeah, If I sent it to a publisher, I would leave it mostly as is, just a few spreads in color.

[MOO]

It's beautiful.

[Elizabeth Rose]

I got like nothing done during the holidays! Ugh!
I think I’m going to have to do another art hibernation in order to reach my next deadline. My next deadline is Feb 15. I want to enter it in the local US Bank show in Bowing Green, KY. (I have to give myself deadlines that involve other people lol). Sooooo, I’m gonna get this baby colored!

I’m playing around with some coloring ideas here.

I’ve also been playing around with some water color textures I think I may try embed into the layouts.

[Elizabeth Rose]

I'm doing an experiment. I used a light table to watercolor on blank paper over the printed copies of the outline of my drawings. Bwala! I created some cool watercolor textures to imbed into my digital procreate files. Here is an example:

All the colorizing is done digitally, but I used the watercolor textures to add some real-lifeness to it. I find it difficult to manipulate digital brushes to look like legit water color. Although there are a lot of super nice digital watercolor brushes out there. At some point I need to try to experiment with making my own brushes. Have any of you all done that, made your own brushes?

[Elizabeth Rose]

Finally getting around to coloring my book again. Its crazy how much time school can take. I have until Feb 15 to have this thing colored and printed out. I still have some watercolor textures to make and I need to work on "About the Author" page too. Hopefully I can kick some butt this weekend

I added the water color texture to this spread. I still need to do some lining up on the leaves, but I really like the natural messiness it adds to the digital coloring.

[Jenna Jenks]

@Squirrel-Size that first image is a kick in the emotional guts! Very powerful and a really relevant book that needs to be out there ️

[eriberart]

Great work! Your illustrations are very sweet and heart-warming. I like your idea of how you add water colour textures, I might have to experiment with that

[Elizabeth Rose]

@Jenna-Jenks Hahahah! Thanks I'm excited about getting them out there

[Elizabeth Rose]

@eriberart Awe! Thanks I would love to know how your experimentations go

[Elizabeth Rose]

Scanning the rest of these babies today!!!

I'm scanning them black and white (I just want the textures). Then, i'm going to pop them into my Procreate files and colorize them. Only two more weeks to go!

[Elizabeth Rose]

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