Thursday, September 3, 2009

How Jack Went To Seek His Fortune




In April I promised my sister, Joey, that I would draw something for my niece to color. I heard she likes drawing and messing with colors a lot so I thought I do should something to encourage her wonderful talent despite the fact that she shows great interest in singing and dancing as well. Anyway, I didn't start on doing the drawings until late June. I found an interesting English Fairy Tales titled "HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE" and I thought it would be a good material for a children's book. My niece and her parents just had a trip to an Australia's farm house early this year and I am hoping the story would remind her of the animals she met there.

I had fun doing the drawings although I didn't spend a lot of time on them. One of the reasons was because I wanted to keep it simple and the other was that I needed to get them done as soon as possible. I drew 10 drawings for the story initially, thinking that the last part of the story was too complicated to draw but my second sis, Kim's asked me to draw the part and so I came out with another 5. Turn out I had more fun doing the last part!