Roughs

For these I took some of my thumbnails and expanding them adding more detail to them.

Experiments

Here is an experiment I have done on Photoshop using the inky drawing I have done separately ad colouring them on the computer using free solid blocks of colour. I like this technique because it is commonly connected to children styled books as well as the effective it gives with the inky drawings works really well.

Here is some experimenting I have done with watercolour using scenes from my final piece and being extremely loose with the watercolour allowing it to bleed out of the inky lines which is a technique I haven't used before. I focused on this technique as it was a possibility to use it for my final piece developing different looks just from using watercolour a bit differently. 

This experiment was done with lino and then altered on the computer using photoshop.

Here I was experimenting with printing to see what my final piece could look using this technique also using the computer to then put them together and to add colours to the characters. However I found this technique didn't quite suited how I wanted the book to look but the texture it created was really nice, which I would want to try and put into my final piece.

John Porcellino Case Study

Here is my artist emulation of a King Cat Comic by John Porcellino, I focused on the use and line to show shadowing and direction, as well as coming up with lots of small individual stories and items that are common in his work. I also included a piece about the pirate which my final piece will be on to tie in into my final small press book.

This is my artist copy of the front cover of John Porcellinos King Cat comic.

Quentin Blake Case Study

This is my emulation of his work focusing on my pirate character but using his technique of loose watercolour over inky drawings.

I took scenes from the illustrations he's done for the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl and copied them using the same technique as Quentin Blake. 

James Hindle Case Study

This is my artist emulation using the same style as the front cover of Little Wolves by James Hindle but also including part of my small press book such as the pirate ship in the background. I created it by inking out the drawing and then scanning it onto the computer to colour that way.

This is my artist copy of the front cover of the small press book, Little Wolves.

Unit Evaluation

From the brief I was given I wanted to make a small press book that appealed to children so I focused on themes that children would want to read about. The idea I chose was a story about a pirate who gets posted a treasure map and goes of on an adventure to see where it leads.


The thing that changed most about the book was the actual layout of the book as it first started off as an actual book so I created a dummy book. I then wanted it to be a story without a narrative so I looked into a comic strip or a poster. Finally I decided on a concertina book just made up of images. 


The piece that I refined was how I drew people, which I had managed to avoid in the past, I refined it by copying different body positions from other books  to understand how they were drawn. I then tried to find a way of drawing my pirate character using basic shapes and building it up from there. 


The process that I have experimented with most was what materials I would use to create the book, I started off by using printing techniques but found that it didn't give the effect that I wanted the book to have. I then decided on either using photoshop and inky drawings or inky drawings and watercolour. With the watercolour experiment I developed it from very precise images to allowing the colour to bleed outside the lines and letting the colours pool together in certain areas. I eventually decided on using the photoshop technique because of the look it gave. 


The artist that influenced my work most James Hindle and his book Little Wolves by the way he draws his characters using inky lines and then colouring them on the computer giving them a really good look. 


I really like the way my final piece turned out because it had the overall look that I wanted to achieve, the thing that I found hard was creating images that were able to tell a story as there isn't a narractive. By printing the cover slip on different card worked out really well adding to the effect of the whole book. 

Final Piece

This is how I created my final piece. I started by creating a dummy book that showed what scenes went where in the book, however my idea soon changed to a concintina and a pull out book. I then inked all the scenes that were going into the book and scanned then ready to be coloured on the computer. To colour them I used simple block colours that were allowed to bleed out side the inky lines, focusing on a very narrow muted colour palette. I then put them in boxes and put them in order of what the final book will actually look like. After printing them off I cut out the strips of paper to stick them together in a line as well as folding them into the book shape.  Once this was done I created the cover slip that would hold the whole book together still using the colour scheme that was used through the rest of the book.