Mid-Point Drafting

Here I have started to create a rough layout for the different pages I intend to create as a part of my final. I have also included the different styles of colour and shading that I will be using throughout my work. Also I have started to sketch some designs for the fox character in the children's book I hope to create, I will work on these ideas to help create a look for my main character.

Here I have started to create the introduction page by looking back to my storyboard and what I had decided to include on this page. I started by sketching out the three characters that would be wearing the different uniforms and then lined them within the guides I made earlier. I then drew out the poppy the would be on the opposite page and centred it using the guides.

At this point I had started to do this process with each of the pages, Adding in some of the character details and silhouettes, ready for when I start to add the backgrounds and text to the pages.

Character Drafting 'Foxy'

Using the initial drawings from my sketchbook I made a number of drawings of the main character of my book. I have drawn him in a number of different poses so I could just take these images and place them into the book. That way I wouldn't have to re-draw them each time. I also tested out the colouring style I used in my Mid-point Drafting and have decided that it would work well in a children's book as a child would feel comfortable seeing it, as they could have painted it.

Copy - Lord Frith (Watership Down)

For my first copy I have chosen to take a scene from the beginning of the 1987 film, Watership Down. I have chosen this as I love the style of the animation and the way that it works well with the story telling at the start of the film.

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To collect the image that I needed for my copy, I opened the film on my laptop and played it through until I found the right scene for my copy. I then took a screenshot and saved it to my desktop.

I then took the image that I saved into Photoshop and started to select the region for cropping the image down.

And when I was happy I cropped the image so it only showed the image from the film. Then using this image I started to create my copy. First I took samples of the different colours used by using the eye dropper tool and created a mark on a separate layer with each colour and organised them, so colours used together or overlapping would be grouped on this layer.

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Here are some screenshots showing the different stages of coping the image:

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And here it is! The Final Piece!

Drafting 2 - Colour Thumbnail Covers

Drafting 1 - Scamps (Covers & Pages)

Scene Design 1

    WIP 1

Based on my scenery thumb-nail sketches, I made a colour WIP (work in progress) on Photoshop to get an idea of the colours and positioning. After this I started to test different brush styles that I felt would work well for this image. I ended up settling on paintbrush-style Photoshop Brushes.

I used an angled brush from 'Calligraphy Brushes' to create the first WIP, as it was only to show what colours I will be using and to show the layouts of the different parts of the scene. I also used 'Wet Media Brushes' and 'RealisticPencilBrushes' for my second WIP (below).

  WIP 2

I then used various paintbrush style Photoshop Bushes to add more detail to the colours on the ground and the trees. When I was happy with this colouring, I then worked on the metal in the trenches that are holding back the earth. I'm still not completely happy on how that turned out so if I decide to use this image in my finals, I will try different brush styles to make it more realistic.

   FINAL(ish)

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Contact Sheets

As a part of my development I went out and took photos of my pet dog in the local wooded area to help with designing the fox character.

Scamps (Others Works)

Here I have created a number of quick rough sketches of various children's books to help with research into different themes and styles that reoccur. All of the original covers and illustrations I have collected on my Similar Artefacts Pinterest board. I hand drew these in pencil and then scanned them into Photoshop to bring up the colours and make them clearer.

Aspect to Aspect

These 4 images where what I was working from to create my initial ink drawings... I 'inked' the different tones in the images as well as the different colours that stood out. I created five different ink sheets that I then scanned onto the computer and put onto photoshop. Next I changed the levels of the scans and removed the white background from each of the different inks.

After this I individually took the layers and started to add them together and changing the colours... I did this with all the layers and images, to create the finished pieces below.

Conventions of the Form

My Top Trump Card

This is my personal Top Trump card, I made it using the template but changed the details to suite me. I created the art for the card before hand but I changed the original text on the sign to something more suitable for the work. FACT: This card actually did have 56 spelling mistakes throughout it, the extra 0.37point2 is a silly reference to a pair of YouTubers.

Adobe Top Trump Cards

As an addition to my personal Top Trump Card, I also created three other cards for the Adobe Programs I use the most in Graphics - Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. The images I used for the cards are the app/shortcut images with a darker version of the main colour used but the program. i.e.- Photoshop = Blue, InDesign = Pink, Illustrator = Orange.

Research Timeline

Created with Padlet

Initial Brainstorming - Remembrance/Children's Books