This morning we had a work in progress meeting with Jonny.
I normally struggle to talk about my work but this time it went quite well (partly because I was unexpectedly asked to go first so I didn't have time to get nervous!). Jonny seemed quite pleased with what I've done so far and had just a few suggestions to work on:
- Add settings.
(I'll be going to the New Forest next week to do some observational drawings of woodlands and cottages etc. so that will help with this one)
- Draw the characters in action/interacting as opposed to just in the middle of the page.
(I've started to do that yesterday with the costume designs and will be carrying on with it this week)
I also talked about some of the ideas I have for the narrative, and he suggested trying to get some of them drawn as soon as possible, just to get a visual of something finished early on in the project.
His suggestion was to draw Red Riding Hood dropping an apple (as I mentioned that I had the idea that she could drop the apple that the Evil Queen later poisons for Snow White to eat), which I drew this afternoon whilst I was in the studio:
The proportions aren't great in this illustration and it needs a bit of editing, but it was good to make a start on actually illustrating the narrative, and I'll probably be carrying on with these this week.