in lessons i did some little doodles on my board and one of the tutors commented on how he liked the style off them, and i thought this brief was a perfect opportunity to introduce some illustrations but i wanted to make them a bit more sophisticated than the ones on my board, i then remembered a children's book illustrator Maurice Sendak the artist famous for the were the wild things are.
i really liked how he created tonal quality's with using different line quality's and creating real great textures with line thicknesses, and how even though using quite flat colours he still gave the characters a lot of depth so i wanted to try and use this techniques in my own covers
the ideas behind the characters and covers is that i wanted to create quite humorous characters the characters are completely out of my imagination, and then the titles were then thought off after i had drawn the characters
these are my outcomes in the style of Sendak i wanted to use line quality's to create texture but i thought it would be a nice contrast to keep the characters really quite basic and have a lot of detail in there hair, and i wanted to use shapes to create really nice textures much in style of David Gentlemen 
my final outcomes have come out fantastically its been a great experience to approach a brief differently, and i think the use of line quality and the contrast between them and the washed out colours looks great. I do think it would off been interesting to off seen what it would of looked like if it was coloured in on Photoshop using very flat block colours it might off looked a lot more cleaner and probably a lot more crisper, and maybe even more sophisticated looking as my outcome have quite a childish element to them but i do think the childish element works well for the actual characters.
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