I spent this week drawing, I finished all the drawings and now Im going to paint. I am in the studio now creating a full size book dummy with the images included, it turned out to be 60 pages long. I changed the leading of the text as well. as far as editing the text I plan to get to that when I'm done painting. Full speed ahead

This was a very busy and productive week for me in terms of IP. I spent the first part working on book design, I feel like im very close to having a solid one, I also began the drawing process FINALLY!!!!! Ive spent so much time doing other stuff with text and book layouts and building sets, I finally get to do the fun part! The painting part scares me tho :/ it might take a while. Im going to try my hardest to have almost all of the drawings done this weekend, If i could do that it would really help me get finished in a timely manner. Only got 2 weeks :/ shit lol. As far as making the books I looked into getting them printed off at kinkoes (hope that how u spell it) Unfortunately I cant get my book perfect bound at kinkoes since my book is a 9 by 7 horizontal. the lady said that like the biggest they could print horizontally is like 20 inches, and since mine is 9 across, its 18 across the whole thing which does not leave enough space to get the book perfect bound because the cover must stretch across the book and have a gutter and things like that. I could get it spiral bound but im not sure how i feel about that, worse comes to worse and I dont have any other options ill just get the spiral bind. Im gonna go to kolosas and see what they can do for me. Why dont you change the size of the book you ask? well, i chose 9 by 7 because it was one of the few good horizontal sizes offered by lu lu (where I would like to put the book after IP) AND if I change that darn book size again I will have to go through the trouble of adjust everything else, AGAIN, 4 THE BILLIONTH TIME, AAARRRRRR and as you could see that would drive me crazy! plus I started drawing, and my drawings are sized to fit 9 by 7, changing the books size would just be a hassle and a headache that I dont want to have, and I dont have time for all that. So, I shall explore some other options, but if nothing pans out, spiral bound it is.

This past two weeks I basically spent my time on book layou and 3D modeling. I changed the design for my book again, I like the horizontal setup, but it seemed a bit long across (it was originally 8.5 by 11) I changed the doc size to about a 9 by 7. I printed off an actual size dummy book, not the whole thing, just about 8 pages to see how it looked. I liked how it turned out, I started asking around about the layout and have begun to get a small bit of feedback from some of my peers. Ive been told that its still a bot long across (i mean that the text column is too long for people to comfortably read) so im changing that, and also the page seems a little cramped, so im gonna give it a little more space around the edges. I have also spent a great deal of time modeling the environments in 3D, I have most of them done and will begin Illustrating this weekend. I have spent allot more time thinking about exactly what I'm going to Illustrate and how as well.