Experimenting

- styles (illustration from tan to prince)
- story (detailed to children's)

In the Easter holiday I had 'test shoots'. Really, that's a camera technique, but I still had to experiment with my project, though it was just on screen. I talk a lot about this on my progressive vlog.

One way I did this, was with my story. I wrote a story, page to page, and then adjusted it slightly for two versions. You had my detailed version with semi-colons and a bunch of fancy things, and then a simpler version - one that doesn't make a kid stop every 4 seconds asking 'mummy, what does that mean?'. Experimenting with the word count, and even the vocabulary of my book helped me decide how to layout the book.

This leads to my style. At first I was going with a Shaun Tan inspiration with hardly any words and mostly pictures. However, the more I drew and more I realised: I'm a writer. This led me to my next favourite children's book, The Little Prince. More text heavy, but still with illustrations, the french author wrote and illustrated his own book.

I messed about with the size of the letters and shapes, and got a layout in a 'Little Prince' style thta I made my own.

You can see more on my vlog.