brainstorming

three main ideaz

proposal

photo's of subject matter

As dinosaurs aren't around a lot, i had to take photo's of some little toy's, this gave me an idea of what they looked like and things to work on when creating my final piece. 

conventions of children's bookz

dinosaur drawings

doodlez of daisy

paraphernalia

artist copies ~

others work ~

These books influenced me whilst i was creating my final piece as they all show a variety of conventions of form. For example, most of them use about three quarters of the page for the illustrating for the audience of their book which is children. I will use this technique in my book because its for young children and it will stop them from becoming distracted with too much text. I also liked how the drawings were simple within some of the books, which I will try and emulate in my final piece.

experiments ~

For my first experiment i used mono print and went into it using black and white acrylic, to add more atmosphere.

For another one if my experiments, I tried out screenprinting using a trio of colours.

Additionally, my last experiment is a pattern stamp, of which i used in my final piece. I created the pattern by using lino scanning in the print, then used the picture in photoshop and went to edit -> define pattern. This created the pattern, which then i could use for my end pages.

flat plan ~

Firstly I did a flat plan for the children's book Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson. As it is a children's book I thought it would be helpful in seeing how they are laid out and created.

Next I did a flat plan for the book that I was creating. I did all of the pages in the book and tried to take inspiration of certain elements for the flat plan I did for Room on the broom, for example, a similar number of pages. I also laid the pages out differently, for example I did full illustrations with a small amount of text so that children focused more on the illustration than the text. This helped me to decide which pages I wanted to do for my final piece.

thumbnails~

process of end cover

This is the inked print that i did with my lino design. I then edited them in photoshop to make them look clearer.

I then made the print into a pattern stamp, then covered the A3 sheet with the print.

I tried adding colour to the pattern to see if it worked well, i did it by using the lasso tool and many layers.

I decided that colour didn't suit the pattern so i went back to the black and white.

The final touch was to turn it landscape, so that it fitted the book cover.

process of front and back cover

final piece