The Wind In The Willows

The latest brief i am working on is a competion based brief for Penguin Books, The project is to create a book cover for The Wind In The Willows.

To start with i have created a sense of place board in my work space, i havent read the book yet, only a short overview of the story,so iv created my board purely around how i see The Wind In The Willows in my mind, and what colours, characters, settings i imagine there to be.

For now i am just playing with my sense of place ideas, but once i have read the book i will get more understanding of the setting, story and characters.  

Market Hall Lino Prints

These are the lino cuts based on the front of the Market Hall in Stockort i think they have worked really well and i am pleases with the outcome, my initial idea was to combine them with my ink drawings some how tho im not sure how well that will work, i think i need to re print them and get the pressure right so the colour is more even before i try playing around with them on photoshop.

Ink Drawings

These are my Ink Drawings for my Stockport Heritage work, I wanted my drawings to show the busy atmosphere of a market place and its stalls and have a sense of movement, i think the mix of scratchy and fluid lines convey the sense of movement i was aiming for well, however i would improve my drawings by making a clear contrast between the lines of the figures and the lines of the market stalls, i think the market stalls need to have straight and more solid lines, i need to think about my quality of line in comparison to what it is i am drawing.

Dialogue Ignites Change

This brief involved talking to someone with dementia and finding out what memories they had of Stockport and its heritage sites, and illustrate the memory.

I spoke to a man named George, he knew very little about Stockport or its heritage sites as he grew up near Blackpool and only moved up to Stockport to be near his family, he told me lots of great stories about his time in Blackpool and where he was born, the only heritage site he had visited in Stockport was the market place, all George mentioned was that it was a very long time ago and that he remembered it being very busy.

I used this as my starting point and looked at some books on stockports history in the library and collected old images of Stockport's Markets.