In order to help with the laziness, I think I'm going to write a children's book. First I have to come up with a story. It is going to center around a purple and (a little bit) yellow lion. I don't exactly know why I decided to make him those colors, but I think it might have been because I wanted to make a character like the night sky or a shooting star. But I didn't want him to be blue because I felt that it would be more magical if he was purple.
For the story, I'm not really sure what to do, but I want to make the scenery and backgrounds as pretty as I can make them because they can help tie a story together. I'm also unsure about whether or not there should be a blatant or subtle moral or even if there is a moral. Most children's books seem to have a moral of some sort. Often times they are a cause and effect type of story (or at least the ones that I remember) where the character does something that he or she shouldn't have and then has to fix it. And the moral is shown at the very end. But I think I want to make the story more fantastical and magical more than anything, so I don't know how well a moral will go with it (or at least for the story I currently have in mind.
For now I think that I will brainstorm and create story boards and concept art. I think that I might end up turning it into my senior project because I think it would give me a lot more motivation to think that I get a grade based off of my work. Then I also might not become lazy in the middle of a page and decide to scrap it because the lighting was off or some trivial reason that is an easier fix than I make it. I hope everything goes well, but I may be shooting for something that I honestly can't even reach. I have a hard enough time with anatomy. Maybe the children won't notice...
Here's my submission for the contest (I finally finished!):
Here's a picture of the lion that I was describing (I don't have any other pictures of him as a lion because I changed him from a cat to a lion):
