This #Storystorm idea started with an image, but no story. The sketch today is an attempt to begin working out a story.

This #Storystorm idea started with an image, but no story. The sketch today is an attempt to begin working out a story.
This was fun, trying to break down the anatomy of an unfamiliar creature. Will need to do a good bit more to simplify for a picture book, and to figure out how to manage a range of emotions with nothing but eye-stalks to work with . . .
This is based on a picture book bio idea. Started with some very cursory research online and have already found a hook–MUST NOT GET TOO EXCITED. Lots of work ahead.
Every sketch I came up with today, I’d seen better somewhere else. So this #Storystorm idea might not work–but here’s a puppy.
This #Storystorm idea has come together quickly. Looking forward to developing this one further.
So . . . I honestly didn’t know where this was going. I believe it needs to be done in cut paper–so the task is just to come up with simplified shapes at this point.
Here we go! I had already sketched out a defining image for this #Storystorm idea, so this is me backtracking and working out an earlier scene in the story:
Embarking on the February 2019 #kidlitart28 challenge by dipping back into the just-completed #Storystorm challenge. The prompt for #kidlitart28 is WHAT YOU LOVE–by completing a little sketch to go with each #Storystorm idea, I’m hoping to finish the month with a clearer notion of which pb ideas “spark joy.”
And . . . posting every day for a month will be it’s own challenge. 🙂
Here’s sketch number one: