finals

 

In the end I came to these five final images (in order) which I think worked best as a set. I have presented them next to the relevant pieces of text to give an idea of how they would look in the book. I am quite pleased with the images as far as my photoshopping skills go, i tweaked them quite a lot digitally which I don't usually do. However I think they could be better and I would have liked to have made more of them. I think the overall look of them is quite appropriate for the tone of the narrative. Although I was showing moments of compassion in the book, I kept the colour palette quite dark as it is quite a sombre book. Next time I am doing something much more upbeat....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

development

 

After a crit with my lecturer I developed these images further by adding in drawn elements into the background. It was decided that one of the images (the best one) had more going on in it than the others and it needed to be balanced out somehow. Using ink I painted a window or some stairs, and then added them in on photoshop, changing their opacity so that they would only faintly come through. I wanted to give a suggestion of them.

I didn't think this worked however, it looked like they had just been plonked in there, making the images look disjointed.

ideas

I have decided to go down the inky route! I took some photos to take reference from to make ink drawings of the chracters. I really liked my inky patterns that I hade made and wanted to enconcorporate them somehow. By showing space in the images I hope to emphasise isolation which is also prominent in the book.

Layouts and The Standover Man

Thumbnail ideas for my chosen scenes. I have decided to focus on the theme of love and compassion and how it is shown against a background of war. Although the narrative is a sad one, there are moments of contentment and real affection between certain characters. I want to evoke this somehow without being completely literal. At the moment these don't have interesting enough angles, and I need to draw from reference!

                                              

 

I have also made my own version of The Standover Man. The character Max Vandenburg makes this book for Liesel's birthday using ripped out and painted pages from Hitler's book Mein Kampf. I wanted to make another book after the book making workshop last week. I painted the paper with white watered down acrylic paint which made the pages dry nice and crinkly, and then I painted the illustrations inside with black acrylic.