Again, I’m kind of stuck because of my back ache. Well, not as stuck as I have been a few times before but I’m still as agile as my grandma.
Anyway, because of it I had to devote a couple of extra hours to the sofa this weekend, which gave me the chance to scrawl a few concepts for the characters of my picture book.

They are still rough experiments with volumes, I’m still at a really early stage.
But I’m starting to see something peek out of the chaos, and I’m happy to have started.
As you can see there are monsters. They are a pretty tricky thing to do. I do not want to fall in the usual monster cliches (a monster, look! Fangs! Hair! Claws! Funny-coloured skin!) and at the same time I’d like to keep a healthy balance between being monstrous and being cute. Not too cute though.
Here they are. More to follow this week, then I guess I’ll start with some colour sketches.