Catalyst Castle

I've been working some more on reorganizing my room. It's proven to be quite an undertaking, but I'm making definite progress. Yesterday, I pulled out all of my artwork that I've saved over the years, which is a lot, and undertook the task of organizing it. I got some 3 ring binders and sorted my art by genre.

As I did this, it occurred to me that if I ever wanted to share my art with a friend or acquaintance, I don't want them to have to look through a half dozen binders, and hundreds of crappy pictures, just to see a few good ones. The first solution that came to mind was to go through my collection and pick out a few of my better pieces and put them in a separate binder to create a sort of portfolio. Ultimately, though, that would be unsatisfactory. If at some point I get the urge to skim through all of my sci-fi artwork, for example, I'd like to be able to just flip through one binder. If I had some of my sci-fi art in my portfolio binder, though, then I'd have to consult that as well.

Then I thought I could make copies of the pieces I would want to include in a portfolio, that way I could keep the original papers in the appropriate binders. While I'm at it, I might as well do some digital touch ups, and maybe even some digital coloring of my favorite pieces. But Aaron pointed out that people might enjoy seeing the original hand-drawings rather than digitally enhanced versions. That gave me the idea to give each piece in my portfolio 2 pages. 1 page would be the final, digitally enhanced image, and the other page would feature 2 or 3 smaller images of the picture in various stages along with production notes. The final element that made the whole idea come together was when it occured to me that, rather than just putting this all in a binder to share with my friends, I could print it as an art book through Lulu.com, or a similiar print-on-demand service.

What do you think? Would you be interested in seeing a book collecting some of my art with production notes, etc.? Do you have any ideas or suggestions for how I might go about this project?