Developing more compositions for pages

Spent the day trying to sort out a few compositions so that I can get going on the stitching. I relooked at my thumbnails and developed the layout until I was happy that I could achieve the scene in stitch.
Starting with page one, this is how the layouts changed:

The original thumbnail

developing the composition

decided to go with this and see what happens when I stitch it



I then looked at page two and wanted the viewer to be taken inside the button tin, where But's story starts.

thumbnail of page 2

design preferred with lid which will reflect the end papers of book



 

 

 Pages one and two together

 

 

 

page 9 thumbnail

 

set up a tennis ball and lego brick with FIMO But and drew from observation with shadows

 

observational drawing and added text later

 

 

Page 10 - decided to use the idea of cobweb and spider

 

 

flipped the image as it looked better as a composition next to page 9

 

 

 

 

Pages 9 and 10 together - think it looks more effective if I embroider white on black

 

 

We'll see what happens when I start to sew.........