Although I had moved on from the original story idea that I had, I still wanted to keep it on the topic of death. I got some inspiration from this illustration from Duncan Beedie, which I posted in this post.

I thought that it might be interesting to use animals rather than human characters, it would also be easier for me to illustrate. I came up with a simple story line that focused on two rabbits, one of them dies and it sees the other one becoming lost in the woods during a storm, which links back to my original idea. The story would resolve with the rabbit finding his way out of the woods where it is sunny again and full of colour.

I wanted the characters to look cute so the children liked them but I wasn’t sure at all how to draw them. I googled illustrated rabbits and found various images but many of them were incredibly detailed and far more complicated than I would ever be able to draw. I then found this website. I liked the simplistic way that the rabbits were drawn and wanted to see if I could use a similar style in my illustrations, although I would like to draw the rabbits so that they are recognizable as individual characters, so there must be something different about each rabbit.

I drew out (half) a storyboard to plan out the illustrations that I wanted for my book.

From here I could then start drawing the real illustrations that I would use for my book.