I Avoided Being Tiny Art Director Today (But the Site is Worth Visiting!)

I'm very proud of myself. My pending* book's illustrator and I conducted a phone meeting today and I stayed very positive despite consistent artistic disregard for the detailed 23 page illustration description notebook I sent him in September, indicated by the partial samples finally sent a few weeks ago (*book coming out in October and the publisher is in the proof stage).

I have to work with him because I like his style, having grown up with it, and the price is right: since he's my Dad, he has to do it cause I say so.  

If you haven't visited the Tiny Art Director site, it is worth a visit (start from the earliest entry first). I am proud that I myself was able to maintain my mature composure and threw very few tantrums.

But, my Dad always does charming, delightful figures with cool shoes and I think that as we run smack into the final deadline wall, all will go well. That's the theory.