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Whew! After starting this back in FEBRUARY, I’ve finally gotten this project done! I’ve received lots of good feedback - I could have tweaked and tweaked this forever, but I decided I’ve got to stop somewhere and send it out already…

In case you haven’t followed along with this project in my other posts, here is the entire series:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5

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I recently wrote another post about Starting Over. Well, there was a reason that subject was on my mind.

It’s been awhile since my last Three Little Pigs post, and there’s a simple reason: I didn’t like it. Something irked me about the project and I lost all excitement for it. So I was left with a choice - I could completely abandon it or finish it. I’ve already made so many posts about the project that I feel an obligation to see it through, so that is what I’m going to do. (That was, after all, one of the reasons I put my process out in the public eye - so in that way, at least, I was successful. Hurray for me.)

Going forward, I could either take the sketches I already had and finish it, or do some major revisions. The first choice would be easier, but I’d be miserable doing it. The second choice would take more work, and would probably also make me miserable for awhile, but I’d like the product better in the end.

I almost went for the first choice. I was really really close. And you readers out there probably would have never known any different. But I didn’t.

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Here is the latest work behind the Three Little Pigs project. Sketches are close to done, and I’m starting to think about how the book is going to be put together.

Here are the previous posts for this project: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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This is part three in my series of posts about illustrating the Three Little Pigs. Please also read:

• Illustrating a Children’s Story, part 1

• Illustrating a Children’s Story, part 2

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I’ve put a little more work into my Three Little Pigs project that I posted about earlier. Here’s how it is going so far…

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Alright…enough of these serious productivity, business, and worst-case scenario musings on this blog for the time being. It seems I’ve been writing more than drawing lately, and since this site is called DaniDRAWS, I think I’ll go and pick up a pencil already!

Because I haven’t had a lot of time for self-promotional work recently, I’ve decided to start up a new project, out of which I hope to get a few good portfolio pieces. In a previous post, I mentioned that I once made a small booklet of the story of Little Red Riding Hood, which worked out well for me. Well, I want to do something similar and document the process here.

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