Been a while

It's been so long since I posted anything on our blog that I actually forgot my password!

Not a lot new here...

I have been shopping around my dummy with a little more heart then in the past. I really love this little book (I think most of you know how that goes, we create a lot of things but few that we actually LIKE) but am not getting anywhere with it. I know what I should be doing, a real writer would send it out, forget about it and  get on with the next project.... of course, I am not a real writer. I get too attached to the character, is that because if you are also the illustrator it's a double edged sword? You fall in love with the writing/story as well as the images?  The latest reply was a very sweet email rejection and the dummy returned home in it's recycled paper envolope 3 days later. Sigh, they just keep returning, dummies are very much like grown children. You send them out into the world, they experience failure and then return home, dragging their tail between their legs!!! Another copy of it is still out there somewhere, the older brother....I shall hope this kid fairs better:)

Latest doodle from me.

Cheers,

Chris

Comments

[June]

I so hope that dummy finds a good place Chris.
Lovely movement in this image. I think I can hear that music!

[Christine Tripp]

Thanks June.
I hope so too, so I can just fagedabadit and move on:)

[sharon lane holm]

Oh I love the art!! I too have a character I am in love with-this cat I keep drawing, and trying to dummy up. Yes, you can write, you can draw DB-Mrs Shawartz just has not found her home yet. Just like our kids.

[Ilene Richard]

I too wish you the best in placing this dummy. The art is really charming. Ilene

[christine tripp]

Thank Sharon ("DB", you always make me smile:) and Ilene!!!:)
Just to clarify, the dummy that's been out there is not related to the illustration I posted. This one is just something I did last week, the dummy is about about a little cartoon dog, I think (though I haven't looked back on the old blogs) I put up the cartoon illustrations for him last year. Funny how sometimes there is one idea and character you just can't shelve, especially when you hear stories of dummies that do make it being stories that came to the author overnight, written up in a few days and accepted fairly quickly.
I think if you dwell on the same book for too long you lose your perspective about it.
That's probably why you get advice from those who have done this longer to put it away and bring it back out to take another look at it in about a year. Just so that you can be more critical, less attached.
Sharon, is the little cat you put up on your blog THE cat your speaking of?

[sharon lane holm]

chris- no that was the fund-raiser art for foreclosurecats.com Donated that piece of art.This is a different kitty, think I posted it on PBAA a while ago,one in color another in pencil (she was shopping,grocery cart-the 1st was a city block-oh thats on my web page)Glad for making you smile!