It's all about the sketchpad

...at least it is for me.

I'll do more about my sketchpad another time, but here's a before...



... and after.



My best drawings are always drawn straight from life. And for me, there's no point even starting an illustration without a quality drawing in the first place. Different illustrators work in different ways, but I can't get excited about my own work when I don't have an initial drawing I'm really proud of. Drawing from photographs or from my head just doesn't work for me.

Kind of makes a job a little more difficult, but worth it in the end.