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This all takes 6 months - 1 year.
I can now draw directly over the previous draft. I also use layers to position and hide text. I can zoom in to fix details, erase and undo!
There are about 10 storyboards that each take about a week.
I use to post storyboards to the publishers.
The publishers would make comments and post them back.
Even with express post, this takes several days.
It is sometimes tricky to send big image files but now storyboards are emailed back and forth.
These means all the messy story notes can be typed up on the computer instead, this is much quicker than writing.
I can also check the spelling of words before putting them into images!
The chair model was actually crucial to a story.
That is how technology has changed picture books in the last 10 years.
Credits:
Created with images by Clovis_Cheminot - "stylus wacom tablet" • chornamariya - "Letters" • epicantus - "clock time hour"