When I initially read The Swimmer, I became aware of the pathetic fallacy between the main character and the weather. I also noticed how when time progressed over the day, their was signs of the year progressing too from summer onto winter. This was what I wanted to illustrate for the short story, the progression of the character and the journey during his life which is represented from his environment and the various neighbours he visits. My initial development work was based solely on images online and I only worked in oil pastels which limited these outcomes heavily. I took the approach of the weathers reflection in the pool water however it felt that oil pastels was a wrong medium for this as it couldn't capture the mirroring effect. The bird's eye view angle wasn't working either as I found it very bland to look at each page from the same plain perspective, the same with the closing borders I experimented with. I felt that these didn't represent the progression of a story coming towards its end as I thought it might and decided it wasn't needed. I feel that in order to develop further, I need to have a better understanding of how water does reflect the weather in order to capture it myself.
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