Character Design for Children's Picture Book: A Sleeping Moai
/The story brainstorming continues. It’s spontaneous and unpredictable. My book started as a mental image of Jimmy Jay and Betty Burro stranded on Easter Island. How they got there I didn’t know. I did know that Betty is supposed to solve a mystery and save the day. Nowhere in my imagination was there a notion of what the mystery was. I would have to wait for it to bubble up out of my gray matter.
Not having a plot didn’t stop me from steadfastly forging ahead with concept sketches. Today another piece of the story fell into place — the moai are actually sleeping. Somehow Betty Burro with wake them from their centuries-long slumber and they can return to doing what moai normally do — that’s another thing that I have discovered yet. Whatever it is, it’s going to be an ah-ha moment!
