I’m approaching the end of this book by drawing the last few pages first. Knowing how the book ends gives me a landmark and helps me focus on putting one foot in front of the other.
Besides doing the painting, there’s a lot of hard work left. I have to put in the dialog bubbles and then put all of the images into InDesign. I’m looking forward to pushing the Publish button by the end of August.
I’ve placed all of the images into my 40-page picture book. There are 10 more pages that I didn’t account for when I started this project: six pages of front matter and four pages of back matter. That’s a lot of white pages to fill with details like the title page, copyright page, frontispiece, end notes, and a blank final page for the publisher’s barcode.
I’m still tweaking the text bubbles…some of them are ugly and distracting. And, now that I have the whole piece completed, I can see that some images, even after my adjustments, still need some more room between the subjects and the outside cut line.
Here’s a screenshot of the final five pages in InDesign. Next step, after a few final touches to the text and crowed images, will be figuring out how to generate a publishable PDF.
