developing pig design and positioning for the bank of mum and dad illustration

above i have  Played around with character designs of the pig,  and positioning of the pig in the frame. i Experimented with a realistic looking pig,  and a cartoon looking pig,  however i thought the realistic one would work better as needed it to give the impression of what a piggy bank would look like. 

i really like the idea of showing the full pig with a man crawling into the coin slot on a adder,  thought this  was a clear idea and  illustrated exactly what I want to show.  however I have not incorporated/thought about affect the frame could have. So I developed the idea by incorporating the frame. iThought about the workshop   I did with Fred,  where I simplified my illustrations,   showing only what I needed in the illustration for  viewers to understand what I'm trying to show. to use this method  I reduced the amount of pig on show as you do not need to see the whole pig,  is focused be attention more on the narrative in the illustration,  And also made use of the frame.

here is the first sketch i did of the piggy bank resolution. i Started off using a white pencil  too shade in  the shadow areas of the pig.  however  after taking a step back in looking at sketch,   I  thought it looked bored using a light  colour to show the shadow areas, giving it negative/opposite effect.  so I decided to draw it out again but this time using the white pencil show the highlight areas of the pig,  the colour of the paper to show the mid tones of the pig, and a black pencil am black fine line to show the shadow areas of the pig.

 To enhance the highlighted those of the pig, added hint of white paint to  make them ' pop' thought of the illustration.  though I did experiment with the paper stock colour,  and the two colours (black and white) on the stock  before creating the  final resolutions,  and was happy with the effect,  I am slightly disappointed with how the figures on the illustration have turned out using these colours and stock,  feel the paper colour was too dark to act as a skin colour, and by adding white to brighten it, only made them look too pale.  All in all however I'm happy with the turnout of this resolution. i Think by using different colour stock other than white, filled in and gave space of this illustration, make it look complete.