Servant's Quarters can be Fun

We finally settled on digital color for the book. I'm going to try to incorporate a few textures without going overboard. On this page I really love the patterns on the Chinese dresses. This page is about how he grew up in China dreaming of living in a golden house. He had a pet monkey who made eating in the servant's quarters fun. The client was pretty set on dream bubbles, but I hate them. I'm going to try to make the book based in reality. I love imagination books but the text for this one is very biographical. I thought it would be cooler to have the boy and his monkey building a little house out of chopsticks. Luckily they were happy with the result.