Visual research
I read the article ‘Searching for the Green Man: A sketchbook quest’ by Pam Smy and made some notes as I read:
Smy, P. (2014) Searching for the Green Man: a sketchbook quest. Journal of Illustration, 1 (1), pp 151-166. doi: 10.1386/jill.1.1.151_1
How does the character of the sketchbooks relate to the final illustration?
The main link between the character in the sketchbook and the final illustrations is that they are both hidden or obscured. Below, I explored this question further:
Are there any texts or stories you have encountered that relate to any of the drawings you have produced during this section of the course?
After looking back over Part 3 and the images I have produced, I picked out a few that I felt linked to a story or text; one that was consciously inspired by a story.
In fact, when I created this image, I was thinking about the picture book ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy, which tells the tale of children’s bedtime story endings being stolen. In my image is ‘tree dream-catcher’ who is clinging to dreams with his branches. It seemed to be similar to the concept of an abstract ‘thing’ being stolen or taken or getting lost, but solidifying this with an evil character in a picture book. 
This spooky image reminded me of the work of illustrator Rohan Daniel Eason. I have a picture book called ‘My First Kafta’ that he illustrated and the black and white, jagged, spiky images are similar in style. Story-wise, the image reminds me of a haunted house, potentially falling apart or deserted, like in ‘The Woman in Black’. 
After looking back at this image, I am reminded of the opening sequence in Disney’s 101 Dalmatians (1961), where we focus into a street and a house and a window. There is a similar sequence further on, showing the next house the family live in. This perspective, straight onto the house, draws the viewer in, as if they could enter, just like the film was trying to achieve with the zoom.
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