sketches

 these are some sketches that i have done in my sketchbook. i wanted the characters to be friendly and welcoming to children. I've been reading the book and also watching a few versions of the films to try and work out the personalities of the different characters in the book. on my illustration of ratty and mole i used watercolours and watered down acrylic paint and over layed them with a black ink to highlight the main lines in the drawing. i used a ink brush to smudge the fur on the side of rattys face. Mr Toad was done by using coloured pencils and then drawing around the outlines with a fine liner in black. after reading the book and thinking carefully about all the different scenes in the book i first went with the idea to draw ratty and mole on the river, in a different illustration style, after exploring this more by trying out trees in illustrator i decided that it was to overdone so i scrapped that idea and went back to the book to refresh my memory of the different scene's and went on the start to design an image from the wild wood. i want to use the scene where ratty finds mole so the front cover of the book has a happy/gloomy feel to it.