All through the composition process, I've been conscious of trying to keep each lay-out different and intriguing whilst obviously maintaining some visual consistency.
In the earliest discussions of this project, the thought had been to use it as a vehicle for my more psychedelic leanings. In fact, as I've delved deeper and deeper into the crafting of a story, and the characters, I've been seduced back towards "reality", and perhaps a safer, more palatable style.
This page, where Squergil is transported from the window world and back to his own dimension, however, really offered me the opportunity to cut loose.
The image (minus Squergil here) is obviously somewhat reminiscent of Miro and similar artists, but the image I actually had in the back of my mind was this (artist unknown):
I've ended up contrasting pages with full "worldly" detail and colour with those with much simpler, starker colour schemes.. this is another example of that. I like the fact that leaving white spaces feels somehow "wrong" in the context of a story book too, as if the boundaries of the medium itself have come unstuck.
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