Initial Ideas

I have known for a few months that I wanted to do something history related because as a whole I have always had an interest in history, from learning at school and watching Horrible Histories at home. It would give me a starting point as well, rather than coming up with an entire, original story for example. Again I felt that illustrating a book would be able to fit with my aspirations of going into book illustration and in doing so I can show that I am capable of producing the work for a book.

​I had some other ideas of illustrating book covers for the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman or covers for David Almond books, but in the end I have decided I definitely would prefer to have one project of illustrating a fully finalised book on Scottish women throughout history. It is a topic that I think needs to be taught more at schools as there was very little mention of any Scottish women when I was at school and illustrating a book aimed for 10 - 14 year olds would be the age range I am going for. I feel like it is an area that has only recently been started to be researched in more depth and there are examples of books written on this topic, but from what I could find only one book has a more illustrative tone, but not with as much imagery (from what I can tell on Amazon) as I want to include. 

Scotland: Her Story

Warriors and Witches and Damn Rebel Bitches

Where are the Woman

The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women