The last few days I've been trying to apply my animation training to the creation of my book. I printed out a copy of the text to the book and started a rough storyboard process to flesh out the look of each page:

The drawings are rough, but exciting. The excitement drives the creativity and vice-versa. I've been so careful with the rough sketches of the composition of each page (careful for myself, anyway) that I'm surprising myself the with patience in the process.

I've been keeping design in the back of my mind. It seems that the design aspect and my history with character training impedes on my ability to complete full projects. I've decided to start with the things I consider less interesting and find the excitement there to fuel the fire for the entire project.