Personal Project - Butterfly Dragons Book

As a bit of personal work to run alongside my picture book for the major project, I decided to carry on where I left off with the Butterfly Dragons at the end of the Pre-Major Project. To do this, I wanted to continue on in the same sketchbook that I started this work in and luckily enough Joel allowed me to do so - as long as it was returned to be marked as part of the sample!

This book follows the dragons on their adventure around the world to try out the foods that they can find, from pizza to nachos to sausage rolls to sushi! This adventure comes about as they are growing bored of only eating the fruit that grows in their volcano home. The adventure concludes with the dragons missing their fruit and flying back home.

For my hand in, I have produced a rough version of the book. I say it is 'rough' as there is more I wish to add and work on in the future, but would like to show what I have completed thus far.

This is the rough cover design for the book. I like the illustration, but would like to work more on the title and develop a design for the background.

The book begins with a spread showing the dragons eating their fruit.

I incorporated some of the illustrations from my PMP into the book, such as the sleeping scene, as I was especially fond of it.

Some countries visited in the story, such as England, have more than one spread to cover the food the dragons ate there.

Some countries are only covered by a single illustration on a page. This was done to stop the pace getting too slow in the story.

I featured a few larger full page illustrations in the story as well as the small spot images of the dragons eating food. These drawings took a lot longer to complete and look very impressive in my opinion, and I really enjoyed the attention to detail in these illustrations.

The dragons stealing a slice of pizza while in Italy.

The dragons order a feast in an American Diner.

The dragons enjoy a Cream Tea in England.

I hope to finish off this book in the near future as it is so close to being perfect. I however need to focus my attention elsewhere before my Major Project hand in, as much as I would love to dedicate my time to finishing this work.