Mary had a little....Lamb?

a project in my Illustrating Literature class to illustrate a sequential piece.  I decided to play with the "Mary had a little lamb" nursery rhyme.

 initial character sketches

at first I wanted Mary to be a little girl obsessed with sheep who dresses her dog like one.

then Lamb turned into a wolf wearing one of Mary's stuffed sheep toys to convince her to play with him

I really liked playing with borders in this one, alternating the movement of the characters in and out of the scenes

I also wanted the piece to work well as whole image and not just as individual scenes

and fin! it all became stitched and buttoned together