holes

a truly great

book by Louis Sachar – Holes tells a complex story simply and beautifully, and with rich credible characters.

I think I did more work for the character development on this than on the finshed drawings, which I only pursued for the very first scenes of the book, but here they are anyway.

stanley

has been accused of stealing a pair of sneakers.

So he’s bussed out to a correction facility in the Texas desert, accompanied by an armed guard.

the warden's house

We haven’t met the Warden at this stage, but the scene is set nicely in terse prose.

Camper is a euphemism for inmate.

and there are

other perils too, out here in the desert.

mr sir

explains to young Stanley that the sun is the most dangerous of all, and is the reason it would be pointless to try and escape.

the other campers

also help Stanley to understand important concepts to help him survive in his new environment.

and here

they all are.

At least his immediate room-mates.

That’s as far as I got with the illustrations.

We are still in the very early scene-setting stage of the story, but you can see the other work I did for character design here.

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a truly great

book by Louis Sachar – Holes tells a complex story simply and beautifully, and with rich credible characters.

I think I did more work for the character development on this than on the finshed drawings, which I only pursued for the very first scenes of the book, but here they are anyway.