Scripts and Birds ✒️🗒️🐥🦆🦜🦅🦉🐓🦃

Most of the time I was writing my book, I didn’t know the wisdom of planning a story, but I had begun making short cartoons and posting them on instagram.

Guess what - I found it helpful to think about what I was trying to say before leaping in! I started writing scripts for the cartoons and planning the stories before doing any drawing. It wasn’t the constraint I thought it would be. Drawing had always lead the way and the writing would follow. It was intriguing to try it the other way around, even liberating - and with a lot less re-working!

Here’s part of the script for the cartoon above, and the rest of the cartoon.

I drew this cartoon when I was learning to draw on my iPad with Procreate. The Gila National Forest proved a lovely subject for practicing.

With thanks to Jim and Jackie Blurton, and Abbey Carpenter, birders and hikers extraordinaire.