Sunday, 30 April 2017

Compositional Sketches

I spent today going through some of the pages of my book, narrowing down the key themes per page and sketching out some compositional studies.

I've made use of the photos I collected during my trip to The Warren a few weeks ago. I really want each page to be a strong stand alone image, as well as working together as a collective. Some of the themes have been harder to communicate than others due to their discussion of ideas rather than narrative; I also don't want to be too literal/ obvious in the illustration of Stew's words. I've tried mixing elements of different images together in one composition to make each page more interesting, while taking into account the layout and which pages will be next to each other.

Even the final composition sketches are very rough at this point, I find it a lot easier to add detail to an image while crafting the final thing, which will probably happen here.

Moving forward I need to finish sketching out the final pages, tie down details with title page, dedications etc and I could do to type out the words I'll have on each page for reference and final image making. A consideration of colour as well as the details of how each final piece will be crafted must also be taken into consideration at this point.

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