I finished the 40 thumbnail sketches

After looking at my last entry, I realized that my insects don't exactly look like the real thing, but you can tell that my grasshopper is a grasshopper and that my wasp is a wasp. The grasshopper was the most difficult to conceive. At first he stood like a regular grasshopper with all six legs on the ground. He didn't seem to fit in with the rest of the insects, because they stood upright on two legs. That is when I had another AHA moment! I began drawing him in the rough sketches of the story upright. You can tell by his legs that he's a grasshopper. I believe that the only reason that I originally drew him like a real grasshopper was for realism. I learned that "too much realism is just as fatal as not having enough realism when it comes to storytelling" because the reader will not be able to recognize elements in your work that will keep them in the world of the story. Things have to be real enough to make sense and interesting enough to hold someone's attention.

I have also finished the 40 thumbnail sketches for my story.