This is my diploma project from a one-year illustration course. I wanted to create a fiction book for children with non-fiction elements so that children could associate them with the main characters and learn something new at the same time.
I decided that there should be two main characters —a boy and a girl aged 3 and 6 years. They are siblings. The story itself is very simple and familiar to almost all children and is told by the girl.
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I imagined this book as a A4 format with big spreads like in wimmelbuchs where children can examine the details.
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This is my main character search sketches. Finally I've chosen children with the biggest eyes to make their facial expressions more curious-like.
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These are my first sketches. Some of them were used in the finals, the others were redone.
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Here is the story:
«Hello! My name is Alice and I'm 6 years old. This is my brother Andrew. He is 3 and he is cute. We live in a big house in a big city and have lots of lovely neighbours.
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My parents are nice but they are working too much. Once they realized something or remembered something, I don't know what happened exactly but ...
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we decided to go on a little trip.
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The forest was quiet and beautiful.
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There were no animals, only inseсts.»
This is not the full story, only the part of it.
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Here is the example of the line sketch.
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I used mixed media to draw this project: watercolour and gouache textures and photoshope to put it all together.
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