So… not all the ideas were winners that day. Time when Pete accidentally weedwhacked tomato plant lovingly grown from seed for months. Getting caught in rain-first drops not nice but reach pt when so soaked it’s not bad-liberating-now can actually enjoy it.Īnd that remains the major theme in my book. Here’s a line I wrote in my sketchbook in the summer of 2017: In fact, this is how I developed the story that would become my debut picture book, SOAKED!, which will be published by Viking Children’s Books in July 2020. But you will also have a treasure trove of great stuff peppered in there that you can pick through and develop into future storylines, iconic scenes, or memorable characters. Once you do that, you will have a collection of truly terrible drawings and bad ideas all safely tucked away in one place, ready to be accidentally discovered by someone really good-looking that you were trying to impress.
Get them all down on paper, however silly or embarrassing or unfunny or clichéd they are. To capture all your ideas or even just inklings of ideas in whatever form is easiest and quickest to mark down-a roughly-scribbled facial expression, a scene with stick people, a weird rhyme about a hippo’s butt. The beauty of ugly sketchbooks (see what I did there) is that they are just for you. And that’s what I want to encourage you to try, whether you consider yourself an artist or not. BUT-as much as those beautiful sketchbooks have value and have a place, so too do ugly sketchbooks. I never did have cool-person handwriting. The pages are brimming with beautiful figure drawings, gorgeous color studies, and without fail-cool-person handwriting. I’m always envious of other people’s sketchbooks.
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