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That was lovely.

As I mentioned in my last ‘dummy’ post, I digitally submitted it to four literary agents. I sat back and started to think about the next one but I had an email from one of the four the same week. I was completely taken off guard…brilliant!

After speaking initially with Lauren I knew straight away that I was going to accept her offer of representation. The conversation was laid back, Lauren was lovely and I felt at ease to ask questions (even the stupid ones). As I’d done my research beforehand, I already knew that on a professional level, this was one of the four agencies I wanted most. At this point I withdrew my submission from the other three (one of them sent me a lovely email about my dummy and wished me well for the future too, which was nice).

So, the update is, I was offered representation (literary and illustration) by Bright and I have to say, I’m over the moon about it.

As for the dummy itself, it needs some tweaking…but it’s looking better with each one. And in between tweaks, I’ve written and started to develop another.

My portfolio at Bright is HERE where you can also see a coupleof colour roughs from the dummy.

Thanks to everyone that followed my process, I hope its been helpful,

Max x

http://www.maxinelee.com/book-dummy-process/

A sketchy Buckingham P…still testing out my new Wacom (yes I know you’ve heard all about it over on Twitter (@maxillustration) BUT I still haven’t got over my initial excitement yet…bear with me).

Tidying up my ‘puter – out with the old and in with the new so to speak, and found a whole host of paintings, images and sketches that have never before been seen by the naked eye (or even a fully clothed one). This one was about to be the navigation image for my portfolio site before I got completely engrossed in something else…

Happy 2010 to everyone – here’s an A4 pen and ink drawing I did a couple of days ago. I havent worked with just pen and ink for a while but it’s something I’ll work on more this year. As well as eating more cakes, making my first million, world domination etc etc etc

Digital Painting

In an effort to get myself back into the habit (not Whoopi Goldberg style, even though I must point out I’d make a perfect nun impersonator), I am going to make an effort to stay on top of my sketching. I’d prefer to be doing so with real live lovely paints but my youngest little monster boy is at that stage in his life where he wants everything. NOW. Yes ladies and gentlemen, he’s 2. Its a good job I like learning new tricks.

Anyways, here is todays effort. I have dogs on the brain at the moment for reasons I shall share at a later date…