Today has been mostly essay essay essay. I read some interesting stuff and I feel less intimidated by the 5000 words (feel sick again now). An hour ago I decided that I can't go to bed until I know what I'm working on tomorrow. I have a tutorial on Monday, and although I've got loads of writing and a very active blog to show, they're going to want to see some visual stuff. I thought I'd get out my massive 6b graphite stick and do a quick drawing of Emily just to see what it would look like. Considering it was quick and not planned, it came out quite well. It's not making me wonder whether I should work in pencil, scan in and colour digitally. I used to do this a lot before I preferred clean lines. Also, most kids books that I've been through are rife with texture and pencil lines. I'm not sure why, but it seems to be how things are done. I think I might be able to have more control if I get some smaller sized graphite sticks though. I don't want to have to work HUGE every time (this is a3 paper). Plus, the blunt edge can spoil some of the detail.
This is just me working some new ideas out. I'm now exploring the possibility that there are several creatures again (as per the original script) but they aren't vegan. In this version, Emily would already be vegan and would be the one introducing the others to it. I thought the design of the creature (below) would be better suited to a less-than-perfect character too, rather than the wise creature from script rewrite.
Another version I have in mind is that the creature is scared of Emily because she is human - he could then go on to explain why and she could explain that she doesn't harm animals etc etc. I think this idea is the weakest I've come up with. Still, the earlier idea of the creature in the woods planning to eat Emily is still on the table. I think tomorrow I'll do some more tests with scanning pencil drawings and colouring digitally until I can bounce ideas off of somebody about this new angle for the creature. At least then I'll have work for the tutorial.
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