Thumbnail sketches and initial ideas for story

 

This is some scribbly ideas for possibly layouts and storys. I got most of my ideas from working this way.

Cut and paste trying to make a story

 

I did some cut and paste things to get idea's for my story for my book. I got lyrics from both Frank Zappa's and Captain Beefhearts songs and chopped them up and re-arranged them into sentences. David Bowie does this you know. This means I am David Bowie.

Designy things of layout ideas

 

I refined my scribbly ideas here and made some more decisions about how I wanted the front and back covers to look. Working in this way helped me to get ideas of how I wanted the final front cover to look.

Flat plan of Owl Babies

I looked at already existing children's books to get information about layouts and number of pages as well as where to place text. I did this with the book Owl Babies. This gave me a further understanding of the layout and structure that children's books use, and this knowledge was useful when it came to me laying out and designing my own book.

This is my case study that I did of the Jon McNaught book Birchfield Close. I looked at this book in detail as after copying and emulating his work I wanted to explore it further and look more into the techniques and processes as it interested me.

I did an artist copy of Jon McNaught. Whilst doing this I wanted to make it look as if it had been screen printed as that is the way that he works, but I didn't actually want to screen print it, so I did it on photoshop instead and created the effect that way.

Artist emulation thing

                     

After doing an artist copy of Toby Morison, I took the technique and style that I had leanred in doing that artist copy and emulated it in a way that would fit in with my book. The use of line and colour is different to how I usually work so doing this gave me another possible different way to work on my final piece.