I have finally finished my children’s picture book “The Anxious Alligator”. The style I went for was inspired by the book “Monkey Nut” – Simon Rickerty and the illustrator Steve Simpson. Combined my overall style was kept simple but vibrant by keeping the background completely bare and going into details in the actual alligator image. Also another style from Rickerty was the scribble effects on the supporting graphics. I feel that it reaches the audience well and keeps it modern.

I have tried to relate every illustration to the text so the images could potentially read the story even without the text. The dimensions of my book are 28 cm x 28.5 cm. The reason why I went this big is because of the amount of detail that went into page 2 and 9, plus all the details on the alligators themselves. When it comes to children’s books I also used to prefer he bigger books as the images were also big. Unfortunately due to the file size WordPress wasn’t allowing me to include it in this blog.