Here are some of my previous sketches coloured in. I wasn’t sure what kind of colour scheme I wanted to go with, and whether or not I wanted it to be realistic or more surreal. As you can see, I experimented with both at this point. I tried making the elephant blue and the mouse green, but I felt like this just looked silly and could distract the audience from the serious message of the book itself. I tried colouring the elephant more of a brown colour and the mouse a yellow to still maybe add some fun to it, but this still didn’t work; the colours just didn’t match up right in my opinion. I think I will just have to stick to the more realistic approach with greys and blacks for the elephant, and browns and pinks for the mouse.

I’ve decided that I would like to use the rounder bigger elephant for my final design of my character and not the baby elephant, as it was difficult to draw a mouse that matched the baby elephant’s design without the mouse itself being too small. As I wanted the audience to see the world through the mouse’s perspective this wouldn’t have worked. I also want the mouse to be more realistic so I have scrapped the idea of the mouse standing up and am going to stick with the mouse on all fours.