Book of Nonsense- Idea Development

So first of all for the Book of Nonsense I wrote out the poem in my sketchbook, and then defined which breeds/types of cat I would have to research.

I then decided to create a mood board for each breed of cat, and I started with Siamese because it was first in the poem.

 To make the mood board I printed a number of different pictures of the cat and stuck them in my sketchbook. I did this to help me visualise the way I would draw my own Siamese cat.

I also made a nice typographic title page... Just because :)
I also have drawn little sketches of cats (not shown here) to help me know the anatomy of the Siamese better and thus be able to draw it better.