We last saw this drawing at this stage of erasing the gray background. I think it scans gray because the paper is a little bit thin, and also because that’s just the way the scanner sees things. If I lighten the background while scanning, the lines also get lighter.
After the background gray is erased, and the overlapping and gapping lines fixed, I add a border.
This is appealing (not up on blocks!), representative of rural Tulare County (yeppers, that’s the reality of any non-gentrified rural area), and has enough white space that it will be the cover of the coloring book, in addition to being an interior page.
Next step: get it printed on white paper with some substance to it at a print shop so that I can color it.
You can preorder the coloring book here: Heart of the County.
Would you believe that I love to draw, but coloring feels like a silly waste of time. It took a bit of self-talk to convince myself that this is part of my job.
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Exeter Courthouse Gallery
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