This week I did some risographs with my woodland theme for experimental and development work. I like the look of the risographs from last year. So I wanted to experiment with the risograph this year and create some content. To create the colour orange, which I went for orange to help blend the foxes to the environment. To create this I got yellow and pink ink and it created orange. Like this: 

As you see I like the look of these, I am thinking of creating a master with traditional mono-print and watercolour paint for the riso. However due to the developments I have planned I will have to come back to seeing if I can create more content for these or I’ll have to find a way of creating experimental work for my semester two.

I entered myself into the penguin awards and entered the children fictions category which was based on the book called Wonder. I have done research into the book and read previews and found out about the syndrome of which the little boy in the book has. I based the book cover on my research and linked with the film Wonder. of which I found from the website a quote

“I WON’T DESCRIBE WHAT I LOOK LIKE. WHATEVER YOU’RE THINKING, IT’S PROBABLY WORSE.” [wonder, 2018]

From this quote I took inspiration an did a sketchbook filled with space themed ideas. I looked at artists which I placed in my artist research file and I created and designed some ideas like this one:

This was the first idea I had for the main imagery for the front cover. I then created something like this:

It was an idea I created and I loved the style and arrangement that did on this, But I felt like this wasn’t aimed correctly for children so I looked at references of the original  book-cover. This is the book cover of which I found in Waterstones (Book, 2018)

I used the colour palette for the back ground and with my research I came up with an idea like this:

As you see I added the main imagery design into a thought bubble which I found inspiration from my research artists such as Usborne’s illustrated stories of Shakespeare (Shakespeare, 2012). this also gave me ideas for the typography. I used the colour palette and research to create this final idea.

I did all this on Illustrator and Photoshop. I’ve sent off my digital design to the penguin awards competition as deadline was for the 5th of March.

On top of what I did for my wonder project and my Risographs I did get a call back from off Springwell School in Hartlepool and I have a date for my case studies which is January the 16th 2019.

 

I need to update my research and have them finalised for the 14th of January as deadline for semester one is then. and on top of that I am arranging training on my dyslexia laptop.

So far I’ve done experimental work and my commercial design for wonder.

until the next blog

Rach

🙂

Bibliography

Book, W. (2018). Wonder by R. J. Palacio | Waterstones. [online] Waterstones.com. Available at: https://www.waterstones.com/book/wonder/r-j-palacio/9780552565974 [Accessed 1 Dec. 2018].

Shakespeare, W. (2012). Usborne illustrated stories from Shakespeare. London: Usborne.

Wonder. (2018). Wonder by R.J. Palacio | Wonder. [online] Available at: https://wonderthebook.com/books/wonder [Accessed 25 Oct. 2018].