Great News! After lots of discussion and advice from my advisor, program director and committee members, I received approval to proceed with my thesis idea of putting children's songs into picture book format for my MFA. I appreciate the feedback I received from my committee and the time I had to rework my idea so that I can make the best picture book art I can. I am targeting the preschool to early reader market and chose songs that would be appropriate for those markets. One of the songs is about 5 Hungry Mice and a Box full of rice. I'm very excited about this project and have begun some work thinking about one of the first full spreads that shows the 5 hungry mice and the box full of rice. I have also been looking at and drawing mice! Here are my fist three ideas done in a value study. I would love to know which one you like the best or any suggestions you have for improvement for me.
Thanks!
The above shows a few thumbnails of ideas. I went on to shoot photoreference of these and then chose three to turn into the value studies for the spreads. In the studies I was working with three values alternating warms and cools to try and keep the value pattern simple and to lead the eye through the composition. I can always find areas for improvement in my work, but would like your thoughts as well since sometimes we get so close to our work we can't see the obvious. Thanks for your help:)
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