Half of my Alice Illustrations are now complete

Okay, so this time last week I posted that I’ve finished writing chapter 6 of “Alice’s Adventures at the Poles, which means that I’ve finished writing the first half of the text. Now, when I’m writing a chapter of the story, I can’t help mentally noting where I have opportunities for illustrations that I’d like to make. Now, by the end of chapter five I’d included 21 illustrations. My self-imposed target is an average of four illustrations per chapter. 21 by this point meant that I was 1 ahead of target. And as I was writing the chapter I reckoned that there were five clear cut opportunities for illustration.

So, here’s the three I made that completed the twenty four that I needed for the first half of the book.

This is a mynah bird and a snail. Look, you will just have to accept that this all fits in the story.

This is a billy goat working the ticket counter in a station. No, sorry, I’m not giving any more explanation than this at this point in time.

Finally this is a railway carriage on the back of a blue whale, surfacing in a railway station that is rather reminiscent of London’s Paddington Station.

I haven’t scanned it yet but there is a twenty fifth illustration as well. Well, I don’t have a problem doing more than required to meet the average, and if it turns out that I end up with more than the forty eight planned illustration for the novel, then so much the better.