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Jen Gubicza's avatar

Congrats on starting book 4! It might be part of your "thumbnail the book" stage, but something I'd add in would be to identify the magical moments, circle them in the text and ask these questions: Which spreads are you most excited to illustrate? How do you see those on the page? At what point do they fall in the story? What spreads come before and after and how can those support each other? (designing a book for impact is one of my favorite parts of the thumbnail process, so I'd just separate it out as a stage on its own).

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Adam Ming's avatar

Thanks for the tip Jen, really appreciate it!

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Vrushali's avatar

Congratulations Adam! You forgot "taking breaks" in there! Make sure you are not over-working. Very easy to do so nowadays 😅

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Leanne Donaghy's avatar

Congratulations!! A great list to start with

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Adam Ming's avatar

Thank you!

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Sheron Cardin's avatar

Whoa

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Amie McGraham's avatar

Moodboard. Tell us more!

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Adam Ming's avatar

I’ll show you when I have more - there is this course on sketchbooking for childrens books on domestika, I’m basing it on that :)

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Aniella E.'s avatar

thoughts and prayers adam 😆

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Aniella E.'s avatar

and congrats obvi 😄

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Damjana Loddelina's avatar

Congratulations, hooray for Book 4!

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Adam Ming's avatar

Yes! Looking forward to it!

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