Character designs that are more realistic a bit

 

 To get more ideas for possible ways I could draw my characters for my book, I drew Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart in a bit more realistic way although on most of my attempts of drawing Captain Beefheart, he ended up looking like a fat George Harrison, so I decided that the realistic rout was not for me.

Character design

 

 Here are some initial character designs that I did. I got ideas from it so it was a good thing to do.

doodly things

I did this for an inital idea of what the end papers could look like.

Thumbnail sketches and initial ideas for story

 

This is some scribbly ideas for possibly layouts and storys. I got most of my ideas from working this way.

Cut and paste trying to make a story

 

I did some cut and paste things to get idea's for my story for my book. I got lyrics from both Frank Zappa's and Captain Beefhearts songs and chopped them up and re-arranged them into sentences. David Bowie does this you know. This means I am David Bowie.

Designy things of layout ideas

 

I refined my scribbly ideas here and made some more decisions about how I wanted the front and back covers to look. Working in this way helped me to get ideas of how I wanted the final front cover to look.

Flat plan of Owl Babies

I looked at already existing children's books to get information about layouts and number of pages as well as where to place text. I did this with the book Owl Babies. This gave me a further understanding of the layout and structure that children's books use, and this knowledge was useful when it came to me laying out and designing my own book.