My Project So Far (An Update)

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My book has progressed in the past week entirely. It has gone from a textless book with randomly sized illustrations, to a story being told with words and also pictures.

Facing spine, rather than the edge

At first, the book was random. The words didn't quite match, and it did contradict itself. The illustrations weren't at a right scale and didn't help with the flow of the story. After getting some feedback from a teacher, I went back to the drawing board...literally. I developed little details on my illustrations, and then repositioned them in the book. For instance, I had the character on the spine of the book, facing out. Just moving this to the other side helped with the flow of the words on the page.

This is one spread

The story itself seemed strange. It started off simple and led into more and more words. One huge thing I did? I added four pages. These pages weren't full of text, but I added two pages after the cover, just with the title on. This is so you're not just jumping straight into the book. I also added another page so one of my illustrations stretches across the spread. This was a suggestion made to me to help with the emotion of that spread. Finally, I also added a page at the back to, again, concentrate on that one illustration. It, overall, is looking better, and I'm waiting for more feedback before it's sent off to print.