The Characters!

The Characters,

Main Girl: Annabelle

The Dinner Lady

The Headteacher

The Librarian

Mum

The Teacher

These characters have developed from the layout of my story which I described in a previous post. When drawing these characters at first they were sketches without colour, I decided to add colour to keep the theme friendly for a child to read. It also helps as it differentiates between the characters, especially when there are two pupils wearing the same uniform in a scene.

Another use for adding colour to the sketches was influenced by the idea of semiotics; for example in one of the scenes; Annabelle has seen the Dinner Lady add some sort of sauce into the children's food, Annabelle believes that the sauce is dangerous/poison and that is why the bottle is red because red is commonly known as dangerous. But in reality the sauce is tomota ketchup, which is also commonly identified to be in a red bottle.