Sketches of: Bookseller looks up

At the counter, in color and expanded with more details

I think I've learned something here. I usually scan as a color document at 75 dpi, the image's colors are always too saturated. I tried lightening the image and also tried black and white both as b&w photo and b&w doc. I think the best image, closest to the true color, is the color photo scan at 100 dpi. I can't do more dpis because dial up can't handle them.

At the counter

This is a begnning sketch/drawing for the sercond image-.. so far... the girl is standing at the counter of the bookstore, waiting for the bookseller to look up... now, I'm writing a day later-- I've posted, here, several iterations of the drawing, as it evolves it's was to being finished. These aren't all of the trials and errors, but just the ones I was able to fish out of the recycleing. Guy's head too small, girl's position changed, there were several versions of ther cat's tail and the books and window were changed, and on and on.

draft of almost first page

Here I have a grey and white and a partially colored (watercolor-- on inappropriate paper) version of the , possible first page or panel of the story about the girl going into the bookstore. The iterations of this drawing litter my desk and floor, and now that I've had time to "sleep on it' I see more things that bother me. The girl's head is too small. Her legs are fatish and oddly shaped. And I don't know if the drawing (divided up into 3 parts) suggests or conveys what I want it to convey. And at this point I'm a little uncertain what that is, too.