| Getting a scanner sure does help! I was asking Russell to do the sketches for Tales but he couldn't seem to meet his own standards. In fact, in the first two dummies of the book, it says there "Sketches by Russell C. Mendoza". On the third dummy and consecutively after that it's "Stories and Sketches by M. Cristina R. B. Gallardo. And Poems by Russell C. Mendoza." I finally decided to do the sketches myself. Although i consider myself a better writer than a pencil artist, i think the sketches turned out well. So i did all the backpage sketches, did the borders and all the artwork you'd see on the book. I created 14 dummies in all--those i bound myself. There's much I learned in the process of creation. Now i couldn't discount the difficulty in coming up with a real book. I appreciate all the people who put in so much time in publishing. I also do understand the amount of work an artist must undertake to create pictures worth publishing When the scanner came along, I was able to transfer the sketches by waiting a while, but truly it is such a great invention and it simplified much of the work. |
