Mock up II//construction of final concertina
MOCK UP MARK II
After my first mock up I understood how important the actual construction of the book was going to be, and how vital it would be to get something that fit the book I wanted to make (double sided). Matt showed a selection of ways to make a concertina book, all suitable for digital printing, however I found the above approach was not only easier to print and layout, but provided a solution to my double sided problem.
By laying each A4 page out as a double page A5 spread and then sticking them together, I would easily be able to print my book as something double sided as long as I took care whilst sticking them together and cropping down the full bleed images.
Process; front cover
DEVELOPMENT//MAKING FINAL IMAGES
Once I had my mock up, it was a lot easier to assign pages and figure out exactly what was going to go where.
I gathered together my roughs for each final page, scanned them and printed them out at A5. I used a lightbox to draw a faint outline for each page so I had the basic scale and composition laid out for each of the final images.
The few pages which compositions//ect I wasn't happy with I drew straight onto the paper without a lightbox, using past scamps//roughs as reference points.
Process; tracing outline of composition from scamps for final images
Final image outlines//compositions
With the outlines in place I began the process of colouring each image. I limited my media to pencil (variations; mechanical pencil, graphite, thick pencil ect) and coloured pencil crayons (again a range to provide some variants in shade, hue, pressure ect) as they provided that personal touch whilst still allowing for craft, control and texture.
I stuck to a limited colour palette also and tried to use the colour to highlight the things I wanted to be focal in each page. I wanted to craft each image to the highest quality I could, and regularly lined them up on the floor to see if they were flowing well next to one another as well as stand alone illustrations, as that is inevitably how they will appear in the concertina book.
I made sure to colour each image a little out of the lines I'd measured (A5) to allow for full bleed and cropping during the final print process too.
Selection of final images
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