Developing the "Star" of my new book!
As I mentioned before, I have written my next illustrated children’s book in the Gee Bee Series. It’s called The Spirit of Lindy and features two new characters along with many of the old ones. We’re making great progress towards completing all the artwork by the end of the year and I hope to have all the files ready for the printer by early next year. With any luck, I’ll have product to sell by Sun ‘n Fun in late March 2011.
With the second "new" character . . . Geoffrey D.H. . . . based on my DH-4 Mailplane.
Since I have already done much of the initial hard work laying out the first book and developing character design, backdrops, colors, text boxes, finding a printer, etc. this next one should be much easier. It’s a great story with a great theme, with somewhat of a surprising, yet profound, ending. I think it may have more potential than my first book. I have treatments for another dozen books in the series and, with any luck, hope to publish at least one a year! We’ll see.
After looking at the initial drawings, I decided to add a helmet to Geoffrey's open cockpit!
Here’s the first page to have been colored, which also happens to be the first page of the book. The same group of artists are working on the artwork and coloring that did the last book and are doing a great job! The opening text for the book reads –
"It’s a beautiful morning over a seemingly never-ending countryside . . . as a lone Mailplane named Geoffrey D. H. . . . flies along in the sunlit skies."
I think it will be a winner!
Kermit