{"id":1030,"date":"2011-01-27T07:10:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T12:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:37:18","slug":"george-washington-leads-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/george-washington-leads-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"George Washington Leads the Way!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My George Washington biography for Mount Vernon is being printed RIGHT NOW! As we wait for its release during his birthday celebration in February, I thought you’d like to see some of my rough sketches for the cover.<\/p>\n

You see that my sketches don’t get too detailed. They are mainly a guide to location and layout. I’m using a simple, over-the-counter black felt pen to make the lines on a regular piece of typing paper. Look at how I scratched just a few lines for the background troops. I don’t need to draw the details of their uniforms — I’ve got that in my head and will make sure the details get drawn with a nicer pen on nicer paper when I do the final draft.<\/p>\n

You can see the main idea that spreads across the different proposals: to show Washington as a MAN OF ACTION. Having the action come right at the reader is a tried-and-true practice to pump up the sense of motion and drama. Of course you see the difference between my head-on view of Washington crossing the Delaware with the famous oil painting showing him in a boat from the side. And the cannon shot of the third sketch seemed the most daring! And hard to pull off, because who has ever really seen a cannon shot from that point-of-view THAT CLOSE? How would I really draw and color that?!?! (And then I started to really miss Martha — and most Americans don’t know that she spent time with George during the harsh Valley Forge winter. So I thought I’d try a cover that combined the drama of Valley Forge with the close relationship the two of them had.)<\/p>\n

Which cover do you think the Mount Vernon folks picked?? You can go to Chester’s Facebook page to see<\/a>; I’ll also post it here in a week. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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