After thinking about the narrative, I wanted to sketch what I want the front cover to look like and what I want the bear to be as a character. These are just very drafted sketches to understand what I want the front cover to look like and think about the character of the bear.
These are two different ideas about the character of the bear and what I want the theme of the book to be. The expressions on his face are different and I wanted to see which one would work with the narrative of the story. I think that the cheerful expression on the front cover works as this will be for when he enters the party and I want there to be a difference from when he is happy and when the other animals make fun of him.
I want to digitally create the book and use photoshop to edit the characters and the background to work with the story. I also want to look at using textures for the book as this is a fun and interesting way to interest the children in the narrative and the design.
When I first looked at how to create the bear digitally, I wanted to explore the abstract style and see if this would work with this genre and age range.
I created this on Photoshop with the paint tool and wanted to create a very hand painted look to the bear. This was intended to look abstract and minimalist, however, I dont think this works as a character and is not interesting enough as the main character of the book.
I want to see how I could make the character more interesting with effects on photoshop to create an interesting character.
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