I have attached all previous blog posts from the blog I created specifically for the magazine into my personal blog. All that is shown before now is research and development towards a horse racing publication. I have decided to take a change of direction back to my initial interest of creating childrens books.
I found I was trying to break away from my usual practise a little to try and learn some new skills along the way. I took to it in too broad a sense, therefore I have decided to go back to the practise which I had been developing throughout 2nd year and my summer project.
Childrens book illustration is my main interest and my intentions are to create a book continuing from where I left off on my project on horse racing.
The intention on the cover was to try to tackle genetics of horse racing and breeding.
The main thing that interested me here was the idea of losing the animal when you play with the genetics. For example, in horse racing, they are bred specifically for racing, and they lose sight of their true animalism that lays inside them.
I have done some research into genetics and I aim to write and illustrate a story based on the idea.
In this National Geographic Article:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/glowing-animal-pictures/
It outlines scientists uses of glow in the dark protein being injected into animals.
This is going to be the underlying theme throughout the story where a predator is unable to hunt due to his glow giving him away and therefore having to learn with this new gene.