Macmillan Roughs & Photoshop Experimentation

 Today I have mostly been preparing for the Macmillan competition as the deadline is soon. The brief is to submit roughs of a children's picture book from cover to cover (with some finished artwork as well), so I've been sketching out some would-be illustrations as pictured below. I have chosen my strongest images to be sent off as fully finished artwork, and I should have it all ready as one PDF by tomorrow!

It's been quite helpful/refreshing to do these actually as it's been a while since I last did a mock book, and now I can see all of my images (of which most of them will probably be the final illustrations) together. It's helped me to pick out which ones may not be needed or whether there should be another for a certain scene in order to make the story line more consistent/flow better.

Yesterday I've also been scanning in a lot of work and enhancing the images I've got on Photoshop, just to make some of them a bit brighter or more contrasted, ready for printing as a book. It's also helpful to just see things on a screen as it changes how you see the image, opening up more pathways for adapting and experimenting.