Climbing Mt. Picture Book Inch by Inch

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I’m finally getting in a new groove: working at a part time job, house training an 11-week old puppy, working out one hour a day, meditating (only 10 minutes), working on my children’s picture book for 90 minutes in the evening, and the creating a post. Somehow there’s time for everything. And I forgot to include that we have an hour of face to face family time every night before we all go so sleep. It’s surprising what one can do when there’s little free time. You just do what you can.

Page 19 made one inch of progress today. I imported the file into Photoshop and inked the giant moai, then exported the file back to Clip Studio Paint EX for the coloring.

The expanded Magic Moustache Bus picture, with extra sky

Here’s the Magic Moustache Bus picture with some another inch of sky and a shadow under the bus. While I was fixing this image, I noticed that I had missed painting Jimmy’s nose orange. So that’s three corrections in one go: sky, shadow, nose. I’d call that a good day’s work, when the day time allotted is 45 minutes, including the time to make this post.

Here’s what the image looks like in the Kindle Create preview window.