Think of this as the shorter, edited version of what was previously posted at this url, the most difficult post for me so far. Despite its apparent simplicity, One Dozen Flavours, presented ‘live’ as a work-in-progress here at bradreid.com, had an arduously prolonged development.

What the problem came down to was a failure to follow my own advice. As someone working in the theatre might say, “if it ain’t on the page, it ain’t on the stage,” so too I told myself that everything that can be accomplished in pencil, should be accomplished in pencil. Yet, if you look to the earlier process links under the illustration you will find that my original sketches were indeed underdeveloped. (Certainly nothing fit for presentation to an art director.) Given such a poor start, it should not have been unexpected that throughout the inking and colouring process, when I should have been primarily concerned with embellishing and drawing out my illustration, I was instead preoccupied with making repairs.
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Much to my relief (and more than a little surprise), with its latest, small repairs, I now count One Dozen Flavours as a marginal-to-fair success, a satisfying step above the marginal failure that it was at stage five.
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Next time I really should follow my own advice.