Due to a sheeps habitat mainly being in fields/countryside. I want my book to consist of lots of greens, fields, blue skies and colourful flowers. I have decided on this as it’s something that makes me feel happy, i used to love playing in fields as a kid and with lambs being my favourite animal, it felt right to make my story book revolve around this. I wanted to create as much of my scenery as i can on Illustrator so i can develop my skills in this software and so the image itself is sharper and more effective as oppose to drawing it myself and scanning it in. So the screenshot shows me having a go at drawing trees on Illustrator. I found a tutorial online that showed me how to create my own leaves and make it into a paintbrush, i found this made the process a lot easier and a lot quicker. I then found an image of a tree, used the pen tool to cut round the trunk and branches and filled it with my colour. Finally i then used my leaf brush tool i created to place leaves all over the tree. I like the design and especially the leaves so i will be using them in my final piece. However i feel the trunk needs to be bigger as i want it to stretch over the front and back cover of the book. I also want the Lamb to be featured on the front cover so it needs to be a bigger tree for the lamb to not look out of proportion. The screenshot below shows tree before and after i applied the leaves.
