Early sketches

Have you ever wondered what children's book illustrators are given to figure out what to draw?  Other than the text, I have no idea, but here's a look at the really rough storyboard that I was able to provide Darren at our very first meeting.  Amazingly enough, he was able to make sense out of the scribbles, and he drew his inpiration for many of his drawings from these rough chicken scratches.