Penguin Book Project- Diary of a Young Naturalist: Spring/ Rathlin Island Illustrations

I have now started to make a variety of visual notes that present ideas/illustrations that link to Dara's Diary entries.

I've focused on making illustrations for the first chapter of this book, which is about Spring. Dara talks about how he and his family go to Rathlin Island for his birthday. Therefore, all of the illustrations that I've produced link to Dara's experience within Rathlin Island. He says that the atmosphere is calming so I wanted to portray this within my designs. Also, Dara mentions a range of mythical stories about the Island, so I've visually shown one of the stories which is about faeries living within blue bells. Lastly, Dara mentions his opinions on nature and how he doesn't like how wildlife is treated. One example of this is when he sees that a seal has a wound.

I'm happy with the visual notes that I've made because they link to Dara's thoughts, emotions and experiences. When producing these drawings, I have used a posca pen to applying a variety of mark makings. I think that my illustrations could be improved even further by experimenting with colour schemes.

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Packaging Briefcase- Character Designs:

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