IF: Dip

Here's my (unfinished) Illustration Friday submission for "dip". My thoughts on this centered around summer and reading, two things I love!  My tagline is "Grab a Book, Jump in and get Hooked". I came up with a silly little character jumping into...water? books? with a rod hooked to books. If I could take this further it'd be a summer reading poster with a sea of words to jump into. This is drawn on a watercolor block with no room to add a sea of words or turn it into a poster. Here's where digital would come in handy, I've seen illustrators demonstrate how they can create an illustration and "cut it out" to add it to another illustrated layer. Basically moving things around without having to redraw and redesign. How fantastic is that? Must. Learn. It.

That's one reason it's not finished. The other is,when I began this I did the sketching right on the watercolor paper not planning what I really wanted it to become. I didn't add a background prior to finishing and know if I go back now I will mess it up. Not too much of a problem except for the glass of spilling milk-see it? It's incomplete because milk is white. I need a background color to bring it out! Unless it's chocolate...what do you think?