Looks really good..

Thank you, ma'am.

I'd say you caught the technique very well.

It's still off a bit, I'd say, but I don't think I'm getting much closer.

Maybe darker shadows. It looks like the black shadows add a level of contrast to add to the overall "eerie". But then you said this will be a kid's book, so maybe light on the shadow is the way to go.

It's so dark D:

It's supposed to be kind of a dark thing. I'd post it but it's ripe for the thieving. Post a chapter of a story and it'd take a lot of work for someone to steal it. Post a completed poem and someone can gank and run with your work. Downside to working in words instead of pixels: people can steal your ideas and hard work and you can't watermark it or reduce the pixel count. If someone can read it they can take it and I've worked hard on this. Nobody'll see the work in its entirety until I am done with all the illustrations and have a copy or two in my hands to send to publishers and reaffirm my copyright.

Well that makes ALOT of sense.

Good luck to you then : )

looking forward to seeing the final concept then

Intriguing.

I hope to hold your interest.

Oh, i'm definately interested. It has a waking dream quality to it that I definately like.

Precisely what I was trying for.

The fact that this is a children's book and I'm basically a big man-child doesn't hurt either.

"Stories to wound your inner child."

Sounds promising. Put my inner child into the fetal position-- I dare ya!

This looks really interesting, but I'm reluctant to dowload all 20 pages. (I have a dial-up connection that's as slow as George Bush admitting a mistake.) From the thumbnails I discern there's probably a story behind this -- but without the words it's impossible to follow.

It will all be collected and bound with the entire story as soon as possible after it's all done. I will be selling it through Lulu.com.

I'll make an announcement about it in my journal once it's all finished.