Dan's Daily Web Cartoon

I was contacted by a pediatrician to illustrate a book cover for a project he's working on. After working out the formalities, he liked my samples I sent for the cover and a final peice was then selected for the cover design which I'm posting here. This book will be distributed in packages of baby formula, sold at outlets to be announced later and on certain websites plus through the pediatrician's website once he gets all of those details worked out with the publishers and distributors. I thought it may be of interest to other artists on how the final cover art was chosen. I was given a basic description of the book, along with the title and what will be throughout the book and I made some initial suggestions on my own and illustrated concepts based on what the pediatrician supplied me with. It went expeditiously well as I supplied him with a few quick images I enhanced with a bit of color to help make his decision easier, not to mention he's easy to work with. Were now working on illustrations for the inside of the book. There's going to be 20 total which I'll try and post samples here, as the project evolves, and I really liked his suggestion of us doing them in increments of 5 at a time. This spacing will allow a sort of breathing room and I think it will help the flow of concepts and shorten the time in getting from rough sketch to final accepted art for each image. I've always felt bogged down by creating dozens of images in a compressed period of time for a single project, and this "incremental approach" might be something other artists, illustrators and cartoonists may want to keep in mind when negotiating with your own project editors. The pediatrician writing this book emphasized "frantic parents" when creating the characters which was more than enough to go on . . . .

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