Summary and Synthesis

I have designed ten favourite villainous characters from children’s books from fairytales to books brought out in the past ten years. I made them into a mix and match book as well as proposing an app version. Both would have information about the characters and would encourage children to get into reading.  The synthesis of this and my dissertation is that I have been researching the role of good and evil and about how important it is for children to read, in particular to read without being shielded from the darker side of reality. This is why I focused on villains and how to represent them. My aims were to fully explore how to create a villain and how I could take well known characters and draw them in a new way, without any influence from tv or film adaptations like Disney. I was avoiding adaptations because ones as famous as Disney almost rewrite characters to be theirs and lose some of the book quality. Also because it is children’s books I have been researching not films. My intention was to understand better and learn what techniques I could use for making my own villainous character in the future. I also had the intention of it being finished a mix and match book but I focused my time on the written side and didn’t have enough time or good enough management to do that effectively. If I were to this again I think my main focus would have been character investigation. I also think I spent too much time in the research stage.