My Brother Bert
text
from a poem by Ted Hughes
(Ted
Hughes was a Poet Laureat of Britain)
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Here
are a few color roughs for this spread below.
I
wanted to play not only with the overall contrast and color possibilities,
but also the location (indoors or out, which I should nail down better
in the tight pencil rough), also get a feel for what coloration Bert would
have, as that will set the color family for him throughout the rest of
the book.
