War Horse - Play and Book

For this brief I have re read the entire War Horse book. It isn't very big so it only took me a couple of days and I loved rereading it. It is a timeless children's book, and with it comes lovely, simple and beautiful ideologies that are allowed to happen in children's books. Everything comes right in the end.

Orca

For my one a week creatures brief this week I shall focus on the Orca also referred to as the killer whale.

Here is some reference imagery, as aways the BBC's 'The Hunt', narrated by Sir David Attenborough is also a big source of inspiration.

I did something that I haven't done in a long time, I drew some sketches of it and then I painted with ink on top of that, often these days I will forgo the line work, but in this instance I felt it would help me achieve a more developed image, especially as this viewpoint provides some challenging foreshortening. 

• They would benefit from some more freedom of media when painting them, perhaps use of tip-ex or just more exciting and bold application ink.
• I need to start considering more the background and context which I should display them in. 
• All of these images could do with being more dynamic.

Children's Book Covers

I saw this book in the library and decided to take it out for reference. There is an enormous wealth of old and different covers in here and it was worth a read just to get some ideas about varied layout and composition - especially using more analogue type images, which a lot of these comprise of. I found it helpful to see them as they are more directly relevant to the way that I work than many other more modern covers.