June ☆彡Secret Sketches☆ミ Batch #1 (Patreon)

Hellooo! I'm writing from you feeling excited, nervous, relieved and a little dumbfounded because today I just finished sketching all 158 pages of Disney-Hyperion's ARDEN HIGH: TWELFTH GRADE NIGHT !! You guys know how I have been crunching for this deadline and never thought I'd see the end. It's surreal that I just sketches my first ever graphic novel all the way through. We'll talk a lot more about all that later this month, though. Here we have some select secret sketches including some sketchbook work, a Mushroom Rain crop, some concept/fashion stuff for the Twelfth Grade Night kids, and some full sketch pages of Twelfth Grade Night!

I actually just got a small editorial job for a local magazine today (I hesitated because yes--I am already pretty booked) and the turnaround is fast: three finished illustrations in a week, sketches are due this Thursday. It's crazy, yeah. But I know what I'm getting into. I'm actually pretty excited because these are going to be poster-style environment paintings of local nature spots in Appalachia. They offered $1500, I argued for $2000, and they came back with $1750, unable to offer more. It's not a lot, but to be frank the reason I took it is because I just want to draw some freaking stalactites!! I have also been craving illustration jobs that are not book work lately, so this will be an awesome little change of pace, you know? A work refresh like this is sometimes what we need. Anyways--that's really an aside. Please enjoy this batch of sketches!

-JG