I attempted a new direction of heavy line art and flat colors. Definitely more readable in terms of the forms. Should work on adding an environment.

Fifth assignment! Altered some shadows and the leg of the llama. Overall slightly improved. Will eventually go back and add a background and saturate colors more.

Edited (above) and original (below) versions of the fourth assignment!

Pretty happy with how this turned out. Gotta adjust the kerning in the type, but I think I am good with everything else. Whoo! What a wild ride this one was!

Process work for my next animal spread! This time it is, "Some go 'woof', some go 'squeak'!" Below are my thumbnails.

Updated version of sloth and snake page. I will work with the background and add in text next! 

After researching about sloths and snakes and brainstorming other ideas, I started making a bunch of thumbnails. This time, I decided to stretch the composition while sticking with the general idea. I had to take a break or two in between because my brain needed room to think of new, interesting things! It was certainly a new and exciting exercise!

After selecting a few of my favorite thumbnails, I ended up sketching them to size. After doing so, I was able to choose the most successful, and I worked on it further.

References for a new page of the children's book for Illustration 5! This time it is a sloth and a snake. The sentence is as follows: "Some animals are very wiggly and others are very still."

Illustration 5: First Assignment

Project One Research and Progress:

I began this project with a word list of several different types of animals. I then wrote what I wanted the text to be on this particular page in an area next to the first set of thumbnails. The first set of thumbnails were more for me to eliminate potential animal choices. (Will upload the imagery for this ASAP)

Next, after I had decided on a pair of animals (the hip-hoppin' hippo and and bird), I began coming up with compositions that would best utilize the page space.

Along with these thumbnails, I started researching basic imagery of the two animals as well as other types of animal-book spreads for ideas on page placement as well as treatment of text.

 (Jonathan Woodward)

(Kristyna Litten)

After I had picked a decent thumbnail, I began the sketching process:

This phase is super messy! I kind of like the look, though!

I use tracing paper so that I can go over the messy stage with tighter lines.