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After the introductory lecture to the project, Jane and I added each other on Facebook. We first started talking a few days after the session.

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I decided to first ask Jane what her art style was like, to see if it would inspire me in turn. She gave me her Instagram handle, her account acting as an online portfolio for me to look at.

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Jane decided to create a character after I told her I liked the gothic pieces she'd done - she drew this witch that I took a liking to, and we decided to use her as our main character.

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It seems like a lot of our ideas weren't really planned, and came out randomly.

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From my side of things, I had no definitive plan on what kind of story I wanted to create. however, after Jane sent me her initial drawings of the witch character I started to play around with what I could see - Jane's artistic style made the witch look kind, despite her abnormal appearance, and I wanted to draw upon that for my initial writing.

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In particular, Jane posted a series of works that I liked the look of, consisting of skulls and ravens in quite a dark artistic style. I then told her I liked it and she agreed that we could create something based from that.

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I proposed the story idea that we eventually decided to go with, and once Jane was on board I set to writing it.

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Jane started creating models of the two characters - the witch and the man - to help her with her later illustrations. Our plan is to combine my story with her illustrations of certain pivotal moments.

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I took what I had first written and introduced it into the finalised story. I ended up with a short fairy tale of about 1000 words. The witch, scorned for her appearance, finds a blind man in the woods one day and he, only learning her personality, falls in love with her. She later cures his blindness - he sees her for the first time, has an intensely disgusted reaction, and kills her before fleeing from her home.

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I've used the blog on Blackboard to keep track of my progress so far.