Fist of all I want to point out how please I am with how this unit has gone. Originally I intended to do a full set of roughs for my finished book (http://issuu.com/aislingcrosland/docs/mmroughs1) and then produce 4 final double page spreads but i've actually been able to finish my book over the past 9/10 weeks ! I'm glad that I powered through and made my final book, I have a tendency to be a bit lazy and only do as much as I said I would, i've never really been one for pushing myself further but I did for this unit and am so happy that I did.
Because my book needed to be 32 pages long (as specified in the brief I was using for the Macmillian Book Prize) I had to loose this page when making the final edit. I was a little disappointed to loose it but out of all the pages it was my lease favourite image and I didn't really need it to add to the final story.
However I am planning on building upon this book in my next unit to try and make a picture book app, a picture book app will hopefully be really good for the narrative I create because it will tell the same story but I won't be restricted by page counts and so on. So hopefully this image can be improved upon, or taken influence from to create a new image that will maybe make an appearance in my app for FMP.
One thing I would like to work on when I take this to the next unit is some of the scary elements. I think the eyes glowing in the dark have worked really well, but the 'monster' that turns out to be her coat could definitely use some extra work. Character design is probably one of my favourite parts about making children's picture books so i'd maybe like to try and create a monster character using the shapes of a coat. Also since like I said before I could fit more information into an app I could consider making more 'monster' characters taking influence from things that would be in a child's bedroom.
One thing I struggled with over this unit was the world in which I placed my characters. I've always found drawing landscapes boring and i'm not particularly good at it but I do think my rooms have benefited from having details added such as skirting boards and light switches. I'd like to work more with these issues moving my work forward for FMP.
Since this isn't the first children's book i've made throughout my time at university I decided to look back on my first book to see if my work is progressing like I was hoping it would.. http://issuu.com/aislingcrosland/docs/lillygetslostfinalprint This link is to my first children's book 'Lilly Gets Lost'. Although in Lilly Gets Lost I loved drawing characters such as the Yeti (I want to try and create more characters like him) I can definitely see in terms of the main character my images have really come along. When I look at my main character from 'Millie and the Monsters' I personally feel like I can see an improvement in both my character design and drawing technique and i'm hoping this will continue to improve over the final unit.
I'm also glad that I took what I learnt about adding texture in my 'Convergence/divergence' unit at the end of Level 5 and used it to create my images for this unit. I feel like it makes the images stronger and also with work and trail and error will hopefully make my work stand out from other children's picture books.
Here is the link again to my final outcome for PMP http://issuu.com/aislingcrosland/docs/finalmillieandthemonsters i'm excited to have my book printed nicely and will upload images from my printed outcome as soon as I can. I wish I had factored in printing time so that I could have the final book ready in time for hand in but since originally I only intended to complete 4 final pages I didn't factor printing/delivery time for a printed book into my time plan.
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