To further my personal development, i decided to help a friend out with one of her assignments. She is on a child care related course and works with children with a wide variety of special needs. Her assignment was to create a book for these children with fun illustrations and a simple storyline to keep their attention. Jenny (my friend's name) decided to focus on the positive and create a book expressing that special need children can do a lot of things other children can do, entitled 'I Can'.
We sat down one afternoon and discussed what exactly she wanted me to do. I was instructed to draw pictures depicting four activities, painting, playing football, singing and playing dress up being done by a group of special need children and average children. Here are some rough ideas for the style we came up with.
Originally we decided on the second design, a cutesy depiction of the children. However, this proved to be difficult as only certain characters worked in this style. So with Jenny's permission I tweaked the designs to show a wider range of ages amongst the children which i feel worked much better. Here are the final designs:
Although i had some trouble with the digital art programme i was using (Corel Painter), i think the pictures turned out OK. I was unable to alter the pictures as much as i wanted due to my inexperience with the programme but i am learning more on it everyday so soon enough i should be much better.
Overall, i am happy with the outcome but the whole project proved to be pretty stressful due to the new programme confusion combined with my hand's frustration at not drawing in the same style i usually draw in. However, Jenny was happy with my contribution to her project and i was happy i could help her and she reassured me that aesthetically her project stood out from the rest, which i was very pleased about. (Good luck with your grade Jenny!)
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