Heres a number of sketches for a page that didn't and wouldn't work no matter what I threw at it. The composition kind of fell to pieces when I threw it on the page spread. The ape perhaps ended up being too tall or too big, small, fat, thin etc.

I kind of hate this sort of situation. However, needs must when the devil pees in your kettle. I'll post the finished piece later so you can see how the page spread worked itself out.


I think that this one started out as an illustration piece, maybe that was the problem. I kind of got fixated on the expression and pose without considering what it was the page needed to work as a design.

PS I always tend to write myself notes on the artwork, its a habit I picked up becuase sometimes its easier to write something than it is to draw it. Pencil oneself a note and move on. It might be a throwback to my storyboard days. The way the business worked was with round after round of thumbnails and revisions, post-its and scribbled direction. I always thought that there was nothing uglier than a stack of storyboards a week before the final deadline. Thats life I suppose.