Which direction?

I have previously defined my topic as ______. While I still like this general idea, I think my project needs a different summary.

My desire for this project is mainly in expanding my own creative practice and skills. I'm an illustrator who wants to tell stories. I want this project to help me get better at doing that.

Rather than the details of exactly what I've trying to present, I'm more interested in learning about the process. I want to research and learn how to build world out of the small details; what adornments they wear, their turns of phrase, watching them cook and eat meals. This is the kind of world building that interests and comforts me when watching media, moreso than an essay's worth of political history or made up biology. I'm interested in the characters and their emotions. I want the overall world to be vibrant, but the details to show the heart of it.

I still want to keep diversity and the rejection of overused fantasy devices in my vision, but I feel like if I make these the focal point I keep coming back to, this project isn't going to go far. These are things to add into a story, not things that can start one.

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