Group Project - Base Sketches

We had a pretty rough start for our project. We had many, many ideas and went through debates and reasoning before finally deciding on a story about a boy who helps to do chores around his house in fun and imaginative ways.

We decided that this idea had the potential of capturing the interest of children and parents as it covered good moral values, imagination and creative language writing (we decided on using a rhyme for our copy).

Before we started sketching, we got down to deciding what scenes would go into the book. This would faciliate the writing of the copy and ultimately, the drawing of the pages. We decided that the book would have a maximum of 20 pages, lesser if possible.

Kevin then used our base plot to come up with the copy first so that we could roughly imagine how the scenes would look like. We then each took some parts of the copy to translate them into rough sketches for the book's pages. I was involved in taking all these rough sketches and turning them into the final base drawings for the book.

The following are the drawings i did while drawing inspiration from sketches done by my groupmates (Kevin, Cheeling and Tabitha):

This will be the cover page of the book. The household objects are drawn to look like they are waving at the reader, capturing interest as the child might want to find out why these objects are portrayed as such when this book is about household chores.

This scene shows the boy, Tommy, waving to his mum as she goes off to run some errands.

 Tommy begins to shrink as the world around him changes into something creative and exciting. The outlines and the sparkles are to depict the shrinking process and the magic aspect of it all.

 This picture shows Tommy chasing after dust-bunnies with a living room cushion.

 They soon realise that a nearby flower is in need of help.

Tommy devices a plan to change the water despite his decreased size.

 Tommy marches with the dishes into the soapy sink.

Tommy joins in the fun as he surfs the waves on a sponge, scrubbing plates as he goes.

 Tommy hears some music coming from upstairs.

 He proceeds to his room to find some loose socks which are hiding in the corners of his room.

Can you spot the hiding socks?

Tommy devices a plan to help his toys return to the toy-chest, using a makeshift trampoline!

Tommy hears his mum calling and the room is back to normal.

His mum praises his efforts. Notice how sparkly clean the kitchen is?

Tommy's mum takes him out for some ice-cream to thank him and we see that the household objects have come back to life again!