Yeah, so most of my drawing and illustration style has a sort of, it’s like cartoon based I would say. There’s an economy of line, it’s not very detailed in the finish. But for this story, I needed it, I needed it to be a visual distinction between the people and the wolves, in part because of what I was just saying about how different they are.
But I also knew that if I drew cartoon wolves it was not going to be as threatening, it was not going to be as, as daunting of a situation if it was sort of a very minimally drawn wolf that didn’t seem, that didn’t seem as dire of a situation. So I felt like it really worked for me on both of those levels to do something different, you know it would make the situation more real when it needed to be real.
It would make it more serious but at the same time I would still be able to keep my own voice, visual voice in the creation of the illustration so it really worked to distinguish the two, the humans and the wolves, but it also helped to really just turn up the volume on the drama of the story.