Style Progress

As I have mentioned in a previous blog post, I love Lauren Childs style. I particularly love the use of real life textures implemented in the illustrations. Something Iam very keen to use in my own set of illustrations for this project. I feel it will bring a new and exciting twist to the illustrations and hopefully draw children(and parents) to the book.
This is another element which I believe will help children interact and engage them even further than just simple illustrations.

I have already put this idea to effect with some of my illustrations I have already drawn.
(Using all my own pictures).

With both these images I have used a picture of scarf, particularly the knitted pattern. This was just an experiment but I really love the effect it brings/added interest to the piece. 

I now aim to collect a lot of images of different patterns and textures.