so, i made a book.. sortof..
Was in a course at school recently on childrens literature and picture books.. one of the assignments was to make a “dummy” book, showing a complete idea for a picture book, didnt have to be too detailed and the theme could be anything…
im not very good at doing things in a hasty manner so i spent 4 days drawing and cutting out and making collages and photographing and organizing the layout.. For a theme i chose the old classic “12 days of christmas”.. the lyrics have always struck me as rather amusing, considering that everything is repeated and the person telling the story ends up with 42 geese, and 40 milking maids, and 30 hens, and i figured it would be neat to visualize that..
here’s what came out of this little project:
(thats a recipe for Coq au vin that she’s studying.. rather fond of that little pun)
by page 10, i was sortof regretting this whole idea, and drew a complete blank..
(for the drummer, i used a photo i had leftover from february, when i was shooting my drummer project)
now, all i need to do is write my own story, and use this illustrating technique for a real book. sometime…
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