Our current Sketchbook Skool teacher (for this week) is Jean-Christophe Defline in Paris, who has inspired me with his wonderful adventure comic covers of family vacations, based on his long-time love of Tin-Tin comics (I think his are even better). His name for them is Flin-flin. Inadvertently he has given us an exercise for this week that was timely for me, as my novel was put on hold for months to enjoy participating in SBS klasses. I needed a kick in the pants to inspire me again on my writing project, and this assignment fit the bill. He has us doing mock-ups of book covers in whatever way we like, which produced some amazing and diverse results amongst the students. I realized that creating a mock up for my novel's cover would be sort of therapeutic, and help me to feel that it could be real, and actually be published at some point! This is my initial effort, with much help from my wonderful husband on the printing part. This was simple, old-fashioned cut and paste. For a peek at parts of chapters, please check out last year's postings in October and November: http://www.elsbethmcleod.blogspot.com/2013/10/and-now-for-something-completely.html
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