Character movements

Character Movements

Now that I have a basic idea of how my characters will be moving from page to page through my roughs I can start to create these drawings. Luckily for me due to my previous work for the convergence/divergence unit, in which I had to create a short animation, I have gotten quite good at working out character movements.

These images below are some I have used for reference material when drawing my character movements. I want to point out that I didn't take ANY of these photos, simply sourced them from the internet to help my with drawing my movements.

I'm going to start with the character of the little girl (Millie) and her movements first....

First rough drafts

Now that i've created my main characters I thought I should start on my first rough drafts for this narrative. For my chosen brief I have to complete roughs for the whole book, along with 4 final double page outcomes, these examples are how other illustrators create their roughs to give an indication of what the final outcome will look like and the 3 stages from original roughs to the final piece. 

Oliver Jeffers -

These roughs below are my first stage in working out what is going to happen on each page of my book, over the duration of this project some of these may change and they will be further developed at a later stage before I create my final outcomes. 

Creating the house

To create the house for my story I started by looking at typical scary houses in children's books. One thing I noticed that a lot of them had was scary looking trees near by, this works well for my narrative since a section of it includes branches at the window scaring the little girl at night.

To get a good starting point when drawing my own version of a scary house I looked at images of real houses. Drawing with these as influence gave my images a more realistic feel whilst still keeping the drawings simple enough for a picture book aimed at young children.