Children's Book- Thumbnails and Spot Illustrations

Here's my first page and spot illustrations that link to each line of the poem. I decided to draw the book in this kind of format because of the how fast the story develops in such few words. For example, because I introduce the rumbling on the first page along with the Orangutans singing and showing their relationship, I knew I couldn't show this is a fully developed illustration. 

However, because I did want a few pages to have a fully developed illustration, I knew I wanted it to be when it seemed more cohesive. For example the stanza on the second page is only explaining the "rumble" they can hear. I used a digital response  made earlier this semester as the background. This is because I think it's really effective and uses and unusual angle- which will help show the children it's and unusual sound. 

I wanted to included a bit of brightness and contrast to this page so I decided ad in my orangutan illustration I created. I like the way the "BrrRdrrrDDgrrr" is looping around the trees- it really gives the rumble more authenticity and allows the child to understand that it is everywhere in the jungle. 

I decided to skip a page and move on to page 4. I will develop page 3 later on. This page is showing the Orangutans escaping the rumble. I thought for this one I'd included a silhouette of the machinery involved in deforestation. Although Im still unsure whether I want it to be that significant in the background. In this first attempt of this thumbnail, I didn't like where their home was positioned.  I thought it was too high 

     

 I moved the position of the home to the middle. This is so that when the child orangutan looks back, it's eye contact is on the home- not the machine. 

I added in the stanza for this page and included the rumbles- because it was getting louder. 

For the 5th page I decided to do spot illustrations as this stanza moves quick. I wanted to show how fast the Orangutan loses his mother. I think using different perspectives for this makes it more effective. However, when I edit this further I will make sure the baby Orangutans sizing is the same throughout the story, this is because in the top left he looks quite big, whereas in the bottom right, he's very squashed.