Children's Book: Redesigning the first few pages

Page 6 and 7 - In colour

For the start of the story, most of the text is sequential so to explain the story through my illustrations I decided to draw the beginning with spot illustrations. This is to show the progression. I like how this illustrations turned out. However, when the Orangutans are next to each other the limbs can get lost. 

 Page 8 and 9 - Black and White 

For this page I wanted to show the height of the tree y using a fun perspective. This perspective will be used again when Tan returns to his home. Throughout this illustration there will be a use of lettering to draw he audiences attention to the rumbling. It will look similar to this; "DRRRdddrrrrrrrggggbggrrrbggg" 

Page 10 and 11- Black and White 

For these pages I want the illustration on the left to be bright and colourful to show Mama Tan is getting to safety and I wanted the spread on the right page to be dark to show that Tan is struggling to keep up. The text is had to read at the moment, but I'm as I add colour it will change the the look of the whole spread. I will say that having two full images can be distracting so going forward I might make the second page a spot illustration. Or even both pages. 

Page 12 and 13- Black and White, first version. 

Page 12 and 13- Black and White, second version 

In both versions, I don't like how Tan is drawn. I think he looks awkward. The reason I have him sat down is to show that he has given up. To represent this better, I will redraw him and reposition him on the stump. However, in the two versions, there is a difference of having a bush in the landscape and also with it removed. I think that the second version looks cleaner and it also draws the attention to how many trees there are, showing to the audience how Tan got lost. 

Page 14 and 15; Black and White version 

This page is a something that I can't fully do in black and white how I would like to, however, I think it's an interesting perspective and is similar to the page 8 and 9 to show the difference. I think I will have to redraw Tan again and make "But then... Suddenly..." bigger or more interesting.

Page 16 and 17; Black and White version

For this I have mainly improved the way I would draw the rhino. But going forward I might draw him even more exaggerated and make the "OUUUchhHHH" directly leave hid mouth and fill the page more. I could do this by slight moving Rhino down the page and tilt him upwards more. 

Page 16 and 17: Back and White second version

By drawing the rhino in this position, it is clear that he is in pain and it allows the Ouch to take up more space in the page.