I’ve been plotting this out and knocking around the beginning for a few weeks. I really need a sense of how it’s going to look when we got into the thing, so I worked up two spreads from the middle as a trial. Maybe I’ll work out in both directions? I’m not sure about any of it, but I think the style succeeds in being more contemporary than the pen and ink sketches. We’ll see. I want to include the drawings from the old guy’s sketchbook: Maybe it should be an additional volume included in a pocket somehow? I like the idea of integrating the old drawings with the text.
Seeing the spreads here is a big help. It needs work.