I searched the internet for images of bee’s in books, films and just examples of animated/cartoon bees.

The Bee Movie

Cartoon Bees

Winnie the Pooh Bees

 

From my research I have found that the drawing/creation of a bee character needs to be simplistic and not over complicated – which is to my benefit as I am not the best at drawing. It needs to be essential that I have a black outline, even if it is very thin, around my bee’s to make the yellow body and white wings stand out against my white background.

I need to experiment drawing out my characters, but I think I will be scanning these into Photoshop and creating them using the brush tools and paint tools. I also need to start thinking about my backgrounds, and how I want the front cover to look.