My first Initial idea was to do a magazine cover and a page all about animal abuse in the circus, I was going to use the story of tyke the elephant for the main example of it. I soon realized that the magazine would look like a long paragraph assignment, so I changed my mind. Ingrid and I sat down and talked about options, she said books are an option as well so I tried to think of an idea that can go with a children’s book. I had an idea to do the book in the style of Biff and Chip with lots of images with little to no text. That changed so I wanted to do the child’s book on Amnisa as my mum’s nan had it and she knows a lot about it and how to handle it. I decided that it would be hard to make a visual representation of the condition for a child to understand. Yet again, I was stuck blank about what to do. I follow a page in on Instagram about horses and her horse journey in particular. As I’ve loved horses more or less my whole life I decided I would do it about the pain behind what we see horses do, aka horse abuse in dead sight. This will still be a book but not a children’s book, more of a book about facts, there will still be images and the main factual reasoning’s. I have a feeling this will be long and take a lot of time to do so I need to start working on it asap.
Title ideas.
- Pain behind the beauty
- Butterfly effect
- Beast behind the beauty
- Beauty’s pleasures
- Abuse in sight.
I am yet to pick a title as I really want it to fit what I’m doing, before I start illustrating and all the fun stuff I need to do my research and that consists of…
- The high lick
- Dressage
- How they really get horses to dance
- Safer ways to do these
- How to help and notice
- How this abuse causes horses to not be wanted?
- Simply do a little doodle for each and every one.
Research comes first, Art comes last.
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