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Elise & Miles and the Water Bear Adventure

Personal Project

Best friends Elise and Miles tour the micro world in search of water bears, the toughest animal there is. They also discover they’re pretty tough too.

Author & Illustrator Josh Lewis

Designer Josh Lewis

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

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VISUAL DEVELOPMENT

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Rough Thumbnails

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Before diving into sketches, I create these rough sketches. While things change naturally along the way, this lays out the plan for the book. 

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Sketches

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Some explorations for the front cover. The name of the book changed off and on as I worked through sketches.

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