Coloring Oz – Dorothy 1


I hope you’re fond of Oz, or at least Oz Squad, because I’m going to be spending the next few (many) days posting the series of mini-illustrations I’m doing for this project. And I’ll admit right now that I’m spacing out the stages of the illustration process into daily updates because, at the moment, I’m still working on the art. If I manage to get far enough ahead of the game I’ll post the process as a single update instead of doing it over the course of days.

Right now I’ll be keeping to one step per post per day. Today’s post is, like the Scarecrow’s series, a bit farther along than it would have been if I’d been thinking ahead. The art here has already had the main inking done.

Oz Squad – Dot


2010 seems to be a year for completing projects. I just got word that an old Black Seal project has lurched back to life and I need to find and complete some artwork for it. That’s going to require going through a number of still packed boxes to find the art but that’s good thing. I need to get unpacked.

One of the other things I’d like to do this year is finish sorting the books and magazines I own to decide what I want to keep and what needs to find a new home. That’s not going to happen while they’re in boxes.

And of course, the big ongoing project is getting the new Oz Squad number 1 finished. I get a little bit done on the art every day. Some days it’s so little it’s really frustrating. Other days I can actually look at a page and decide I’m done with it. I can’t predict when I’ll actually have the art done. I’ve made so many predictions in the past and failed to make them come true that I’ve (mostly) learned to stop making them.

This sketch of Dorothy is from 2004 and was part of the design of the cover of an ashcan preview of another, earlier Oz Squad number one.