Big Bad Bear

Working on another book.  This is the cover...the bear was purple and now he is blue. The name of the book is Beware Beware of the Big Bad Bear.

Finished color cover art.

Sketch with title text

I am struggling a bit with this book.  I am not a blue person, so the color composition on this book is a challenge to me.  I had initially created the bear purple, but the last few book covers have had a very strong purple, green and yellow color composition.  So went out on a limb and made bear blue....not sure yet.  

From the Sketchbook

 

New character in my sketchbook.  So I changed the focus of the blog to what is really going on "In the Studio".  Right now I am working on several projects at the same time.  This is a character for a story.  I decided to use a vaguely 1940's time frame.  I say this because he turned out really nice.  But....he was a little too perfect.  So I changed his shoes to be high top tennis shoes which would have really only been worn by a youngster in the 40's.  Now I like him even better.  Sigh...love it when a character cooperates.  Now Grandma is giving me trouble.  She is really bossy and she and I can't get her dressed just the way she wants.  Maybe when we get together I will let her make an appearance in my blog.