Historic Buildings Cover

For this cover the first idea i had was brick work in the same style as the poppies i thought of this because when i was looking at the church the brickwork looked different colours so i did a lino print as i thought this would be the best way to get the brick texture.

 

 I played around with them in Photoshop to get the pattern and size i wanted them to be.

 

 

And this was the outcome i really like it, but decided not to use this just purely because i thought its a bit predictable to use for an historic building cover.

So instead i started on a new pattern i thought of using the shape of the stainglass window on the church as a base for this pattern, so i drew a black outline of the window, and i pressed some vibrant ink colours to represent the glass, but when i tried to make it work on the cover in the same layout as the poppies it looked wrong.

 

 

 

 

So i took the same pattern and made it smaller and repeated it to make a sort of flower pattern, and used that in the layout and that worked, the only problem i have now is to make a background that will compliment both this cover and the wartime cover..

Historic Wartime Cover

The Last part of the brief is to produce a cover for two booklets one for Historic Wartime and one for Historic Buildings, it asks them to be kept fairly abstract and pattern based.
For the historic wartime cover i decided to use a pattern with poppies, in my wind in the willows work, i created flowers by pressing ink between to sheets of paper and i really liked the technique and the result it gave so i used this technique for the poppies.

I did a few tests and this was the one i decided to use to create the cover.

The covers are going to be folded to A5 so i had to take this into account when deciding how i wanted to the layout to be. I repeated the pattern and had them go from large to small and made the poppies fade out as they got smaller, At first i had it on a white background but felt it was a bit flat, so i tried it with a brush stoke background and i think that works better, but i am going to try it with a few different backgrounds.



Animation

This is the animation i created using my previous Age UK work of the Stockport Market. For my animation i decided i only really wanted to mke the people move and give it the feel of a busy marke place, i left everything exactly the same i just had to re-draw the people, i used a light box to keep in the right scale and went over my original making only slight differences, i didnt really want to move the people drastically from there original place. Plus as i draw with ink and pipette the lines would never be the same anyway and this in itself would create movement.

My animation lasts thirty seconds and is a loop of about five frames, i love the finished outcome it is how i pictured it to be i wanted it to give the feel of a constantly moving environment which it does, and i like the simplicity of it, i enjoyed trying something new, on doing animation again but with a larger amount of time i think iwould probably like to try something more challenging..maybe.  

St Mary's Church

Part of the brief is to produce an illustration of a famous landmark in Stockport, the landmark i chose to illustrate is St Mary's Church.
I chose this landmark because as part of my previous work illustrated Stockport's Market Hall which is right next to the church so i thought it linked it together nicely.

 This was one of the drawings i produced but it was to simple and when i changed it from a pencil drawing to an ink drawing i felt it ruined it. So i decided to try something else and turned to lino printing.
It's still simplistic i tried it with different colours but decided the black and white looked best.

I scanned the print onto the computor and played around a bit with it, with my previous work i duplicted my print of the market hall and made it almost like a shadow and i decided to do the same thing with the church. It works and it just links all my work together, the only thing i might do is play around with background ideas and maybe make some using tissue paper and paint just to maybe try and add a bit off texture to the background. 

Age UK continued...

I was given a choice of three briefs for this next project, one was a continuation of a previous brief i had done relating to Age UK so i decided to go with that.

The brief asks for me to create an A4 image of a Stockport heritage site to be used as a memory prompt card, the heritage site i chose to illustrate was St Mary's Church, I need to animate the illustration i did for the previous Ae UK brief (which is scary as iv never animated anything) and produce two A4 covers (which will be folded to A5) one for historic wartime and one for historic buildings. I am quite excited to do this brief as i get to try something new and i really enjoyed doing the previous brief relating to this one !!

Final Book Cover

This is my final book cover design for the Wind in the Willows brief.

My last design using the badger character was my favorite out of all my ideas and was the one i wanted to use for the competition but i felt it lacked something in the background, so i went back to my first cover design and took elements from it that i loved and thought worked well such as the tree and my brush stokes for the river bank.
I think the whole thing works alot better and has given a bit more depth and colour to my original idea, and i am really peased with the outcome. 

The Wind in the Willows Book Cover Experiments

This was the first experiment i did, i like certain elements of it, like the tree and the colour palette iv used, but i just dont like everything together and i dont think it works and i think it looks as if its missing something on the front cover.



In these covers i wanted to try making them really simplistic and stripping them down to only using a few of my drawings and placing them on a white background. I think these work much better than trying to create a full scene.

I used acrylic ink in all of these drawings some are line drawings and some pressed ink, and I combined all the different elements using photoshop.