PICTURE BOOK TITLE: A quote from MJ H Fawkes or Rawling? 'Chevin' 'The woods' 'Thank you'-tribute to Fawkes?
IDEA: What is your picture book about?
Visual representation of my experience of Chevin forest mixed with quotes//feelings//historical context that I researched. A running narrative of movement and exploration of the forest and it's natural surroundings. A few repeated figures (Chay & Danny) to hold narrative together. Maybe a panoramic on the flip side of the concertina showing surprise view? Incorporation of minimalist text to emphasise the mood of the forest//Fawkes and Rawlings intent and how it paid off.
INTENT: What are you trying to achieve?
An organic feeling book that comes across as very human and hand crafted. Although printed for a final product, images themselves will be hand rendered. A book with a certain quietness about it. A certain honesty that will be charming to look at and flick through. And in a certain way pay homage to Fawkes for donating the Chevin back to the people of Otley.
An organic feeling book that comes across as very human and hand crafted. Although printed for a final product, images themselves will be hand rendered. A book with a certain quietness about it. A certain honesty that will be charming to look at and flick through. And in a certain way pay homage to Fawkes for donating the Chevin back to the people of Otley.
STRUCTURE: How might this book function?
I really like the idea of the book functioning as a concertina, I think it would work well with the sort of layout and atmosphere I want to create within my book. It also gives variability in terms of composition; I could either draw individual illustrations within each panel, or have longer panoramic illustrations to highlight particular landscapes within Chevin such as surprise view
I really like the idea of the book functioning as a concertina, I think it would work well with the sort of layout and atmosphere I want to create within my book. It also gives variability in terms of composition; I could either draw individual illustrations within each panel, or have longer panoramic illustrations to highlight particular landscapes within Chevin such as surprise view
SELF-EVALUATION
WHAT have you discovered about research over the last two weeks?
The importance of experiential research was something I hadn't come across prior to this brief and it has been crucial to the development of my ideas and how the book has evolved. If it were not for me going out and being in Chevin forest and having an 'adventure' I doubt that the factual research that I undertook would have been anywhere near as potent and important to me as it was. I've also learnt how more than one strand of research can inform another as my factual and experiential did, making for more opinionated and interesting research and therefore work.
The importance of experiential research was something I hadn't come across prior to this brief and it has been crucial to the development of my ideas and how the book has evolved. If it were not for me going out and being in Chevin forest and having an 'adventure' I doubt that the factual research that I undertook would have been anywhere near as potent and important to me as it was. I've also learnt how more than one strand of research can inform another as my factual and experiential did, making for more opinionated and interesting research and therefore work.
WHICH approaches to the research did you struggle with?
I struggled with the people aspects in the fact that there wasn't really any people around to talk to for my project. It would have been nice to meet a park ranger or forester and ask them what it's like to work in and maintain the forest on a regular basis. Or ask them if they knew about Rawling or the forests' history.
I struggled with the people aspects in the fact that there wasn't really any people around to talk to for my project. It would have been nice to meet a park ranger or forester and ask them what it's like to work in and maintain the forest on a regular basis. Or ask them if they knew about Rawling or the forests' history.
WHICH approaches to research did you find beneficial?
As previously stated, the experiential research has been something new to me and incredibly beneficial. It is definitely something I want to start doing more often were possible as it really freshened my mind and pushed my ideas.
As previously stated, the experiential research has been something new to me and incredibly beneficial. It is definitely something I want to start doing more often were possible as it really freshened my mind and pushed my ideas.
WHAT do you regret about your approach to research during this brief?
Again, I regret not talking to people directly. I also wonder if I could have found a more interesting place to study, but I accept the challenge to find beauty and story in the mundane.
Again, I regret not talking to people directly. I also wonder if I could have found a more interesting place to study, but I accept the challenge to find beauty and story in the mundane.
WHAT kind of media, skills, tools and processes are you going to explore?
As I mentioned before, despite the final book being printed digitally, I want the majority of the illustrations to be hand crafted and perhaps only enhanced slightly through photoshop. Over the course of the next few weeks I'm hoping to do more media scamps and development work to further refine the media processes I will use on my final illustrations. I also think I want quite a minimalist colour palette, consisting mainly of greys with splashes of colour thrown in to highlight certain things. Texture will also play a big part in my final illustrations and the crafting of these is something I will also investigate further through practical work.
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