The Book ..(very much in progress)

So at the start of my project, creating a book was my plan for my main outcome. It would be a place to showcase the writing I'd been working on paired with my illustrations. And the rest of my project exist to support and interact with these ideas and outcomes. Branching outside of the story encased between the 2 board edges of a book. Expanding the world within it.

However unfortunately, its still very much in the rough stages. To mock up a very rough version of the layout I've inputted sketchbook sketches and roughs, but these images are by no means the final images of any of the book spreads.
I didn't have any more time or energy to make anything better which has been a real blow but there's nothing much I can do now.
I had put the book on a back burner whilst I focused on other aspects of the project which felt more manageable and this meant I left it too late to produce something I would be proud of, especially under the circumstances and considering I had ran out of steam.

I'm really disappointed with this, but I decided to make the call to just do what felt right rather than rushing to create something I wasn't happy with and exhausting myself in the process.
Maybe with better time management (or without the pandemic) I would have gotten a lot further with this, but for now its a work in progress.

Its a real shame but I need to stop dwelling on it. This project is something I've really enjoyed and has become really important to me and I'm determined to finish it. I'm going to keep chipping away at the book after hand in until I've produced something I feel does justice to the time I've put into researching and producing the project.

I've planned this book to include full bleed full colour spreads, which are not evident in the WIP below, but I wanted to illustrate a demonstration of what might be. You can see the page planning in my sketchbooks, specifically numbers 6, 7 and 8. link here
I was planning on making my end paper using patterns created from my lino stamps, but again I ran out of time which I'm annoyed about.

But for now here it is as a work in progress / in the extreme rough stages: