Updates on Stalking the Elusive Quetzal

I have finally finished sketching all the pages for Stalking the Elusive Quetzal! Over the next few weeks I will be tracing clean copies of the sketched pages and binding them together along with the text in a book dummy. The completed book dummy will them make its debut at the 2009 SCBWI Summer Conference Portfolio Art Show. Who know maybe the story will be picked up by a publisher there. So stay tuned Quetzal fans, Stalking the Elusive Quetzal is well on its way to completion!

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And here's some more Stalking the Elusive Quetzal sketched pages:

Spent most of the day ordering various supplies for WonderCon and the upcoming arrivals to my store. As well I made a few thinks like bookmarks and product tags.

Art-a-thon
Today’s (and yesterdays) pieces are updated versions of my character studies.

New Year

Hope your new year is off to a good start! Yesterday I went to my friend’s Sally & Drew’s wedding which was very nice and very unique just like them. I’d like to wish them a lifetime of happiness and all the love in the world.

Yesterday was also New Years Eve so there were mad lines everywhere and a flurry of excitement. I on the other hand staid home (well after coming home from the wedding) watched Andromeda Strain and back episodes of the Sara Conner Chronicles, ate a burrito and drank champagne while playing WOW. I haven’t a clue what’s geeky than that but feel free to let me know.

My New Year’s resolutions are:
• The keep up the Art-a-thon challenge (though for everyone’s sake the new rules will be modified to exclude holidays as well as weekends.)
• To continue to bring forth the best work I can
• To stop neglecting to work on the COR project (it’s something I’ve been working on here and there since 2003) and actually set aside time to collect it all in one place and see what I have.

Art-a-thon
The first piece of the new year is a painting of Xcaret(ish-car-et) from my children's book Stalking the Elusive Quetzal.