Art in the news

Have heard of a guy named David Petersen? He is the head author and illustrator of the Eisner winning comic book Mouse Guard. While the books are targeted to younger audiences, it has attracted a much broader audience. I started reading the books awhile ago, but thats not what im going to discuss. Im going to talk about how the illustrator makes and prepares the scenery in his books before putting it down on paper.          

He first makes a 3D model out of cardboard and paper and makes it all set to scale and keeps the models for reference for later use. I've never really see this in alot of artists who work on graphic novels and I would like to see more like it.

Davids Blog- http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/