Character Design

With my current project I was lucky enough to be able to direct my area of study into basically any direction I chose. I've always loved to draw, and this fascinates me as I've really never had the question in my mind of "what do i want to be when i grow up?", because I always knew that drawing was what I loved to do. So once I realised that there was a career to be had from drawing/creating, my mind was set and that was that.

This struck a question in me, why do I like to draw? what made me have the fascination when i was that young. I guess, like most children, I was read children's stories pretty much every night before I went to sleep as a child. 'We're going on a bear hunt' was definitely one of my favourites, and I think one of the main stories that inspired me to draw. Most children's stories contain a simple yet moralised narrative, and I think the best stories have a narrative that is largely driven through its illustration as opposed to the literature. This has become a large aspect of my research for this project, and thus resulted in me creating a short tale about a Red Fox. It's still a work in progress, and to tell the truth I will possibly only complete a couple of pages, just to show what could become, had the project ran for longer than 6 weeks. However, I feel that this is possibly the best outcome for my research, especially as I want to delve into the children's book world in the future.

This is Ella, one of the main characters in the story.
I wanted to create a character that was cute and innocent looking,
but most of all relatable to a child.
Hopefully I have succeeded with that wish here.

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