The author shared her dummy book with the artist. He was kind enough not to laugh. He went away to work. He came back with storyboard sketches.   Tweet

After a few conversations about the concept sketches, an art style was decided upon and the artist went away to work. He came back with some expressions of Bud.   And the author and the white plush bunny were impressed.   Tweet

She had the B list sentences. She had colored author art. She had a dummy book that brought it all together. And it was not enough. She needed an artist. Someone who could take Bud to the next level and make him a real bunny. A friend of hers knew someone who knew someone. A … Read more →

With bunches of colored author art bunnies ready, a dummy book was created to match the B list sentences with the blue-eyed brown bunny with the beige belly and black tail.     Thirty-one pages later, the Bud the Bunny Book prototype was complete. And the white plush bunny was happy. Tweet

Author art was just the beginning of the Bunny Who Would Be Bud. Once scanned sketches were imported into Photoshop, they were transformed, enhanced, enabled with abilities far beyond their humble beginnings and became … [drumroll] Colored scanned sketches! * * remember, this is still author art ** ** which will let you appreciate artist … Read more →

After the B List became B sentences, there had to be art. Tweet

2006 – March blew into April, and words of the white plush bunny still echoed in her ears. Other B words followed, and flowed, and formed themselves into a list. Tweet

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