04/03/26

On  Monday, I travelled to the academy to print out some riso prints and digital prints for the Playgrounds market. A pity i live so far, since the train ride takes most of the day.  But fine, I got 4 different prints completed.



I have still some other things to prep and print:


4 Tuesday, I began reworking the story and really only incuding things that i love.  Then i spent the rest of the day researching the hero’s journey. I found the videos in this series to be very informative:








I managed to get up until Tests, Allies and enemies. I’ll continue the rest as I go along.

Today:


Began splitting and thinking developments by page number like Puck and Nicholas mentioned.  
Following the story structure of the hero’s journey.

Tomorrow, I’ll continue with this and begin a rough storyboard on Friday . Next week I plan to reach out to Herman from the research station at the academy for plot structure feedback.

05/02/26

Worked further on the page developments


And then read and began to study Hupo and the Wonderthief. Analysing the steps of the heros journey in the story.

then I spent some time in the library and came across  the picturebook Mighty Min. I loved the illustrations and also studied the structure of the story.


After I rewrote the beats of my story :





WEEK 5 OBSERVATION DRAWING:

Reflection:
This week, my positives are:
- I finally understand the structure of the Hero’s Journey and can see it in many books and films I consume.
-I find drawing people to be quite enjoyable now and believe i’m slowly improving.

The challenges:
-Rewriting the story for 4th time. I have a plot that flows and follows the hero’s journey but i do wonder if they are too derivitive of the media I’ve been studying. I also worry that the story is predictable.