So, for those of you in the Bobbledy Books club, the next thing you’ll be receiving in the mail is this year’s album of music by our good friend Drew. Drew has been sending us snippets and chunks and tantalizing tidbits of songs for the past four months, and we’re finally putting the whole thing together. Let me tell you: there are some real gems on this album.

But, believe it or not, we had no trouble coming up with the name of the album. It sort of screamed to us when we were looking through the playlist.

And so [drum roll!] the album is named “Where is My Chicken?” after its title song, “Where is My Chicken?”. It all makes sense.

Now, it hasn’t been released yet, so you can’t buy it yet. And part of why it hasn’t been released yet is because I still have to make the album art for it.

I kind of had in my head from the start a chicken rocking out on the guitar. I talked over my ideas with Matthew, who suggested we really ought to have a rooster playing the guitar. It would just make more sense. And so the sketching began.

I started with a strutting rooster, but decided that he looked better standing straight on with his legs spread, like one does when hitting a power chord:

Once I got his position figured out, I drew in the lines a little darker. And I added some more detail in his tail feathers:

Then I started coloring him in. I did this drawing entirely on my computer – I just bought a set of Photoshop paintbrushes (HERE, if you’re interested) which I LOVE. It made the process go a lot faster than painting with a paintbrush.

Once I got him colored in, I decided all that detail in the rooster’s tail was just too busy. So I took out the outlines and just left the feather details. I kind of love how that worked out.

And finally, I added kind of a sunburst behind him, to make him really sing:

Of course, when I showed it to Matthew, the first thing he said was, “Well, we need to write Drew’s name on it somewhere, and we also need to put Bobbledy Books on there somewhere, and we also probably should include Brian (our friend who played a lot of the music on the album with Drew). And, um, isn’t the song ‘Where IS My Chicken?’ and not ‘Where’s My Chicken?'”

Dang.

Dang, dang, dang.

Sometimes I really zone out when I get into a zone!

Corrections and adjustments to come!

If any of you out there feel like drawing the album cover for an album called “Where Is My Chicken?” I would love to see it! Post it in the comments below, and maybe when you get your copy of the album in the mail, it will have YOUR cover on it, not mine!