Brian Biggs Experimant

To create this work in the style of Brain Biggs I had to draw out each individual picture then ink them and colour them in Photoshop. By doing this it allowed me to be free with colouring and resizing as each image wasn't connected together. To colour the images I created a swatch so that the colour I ended up using worked well together.

Example of Brian Biggs work:

Aspect to Aspect CMKY Process Experiment

For this experiment I first chose 8 pictures that were connected to my story book in some way, after using the light box I inked 3 separate pages focusing on different areas and tonal parts. Once I had finished this I scanned them in and rearranged them in the same document so they were in the same place and size. I then changed each layer into either yellow, cyan, magenta or key. By then turning every layer to darken you had a mixture of seven colours to play with. I then decided to lighten or change the hue of different layers to get a completely different mix of colours.

Chris Haughton Experiments

For this experiment I wanted to try using the same process that Chris Haughton uses in his work, I did this because I liked the colours that were created from the technique used. He created this by making the shapes in Photoshop and lowering the opacity and allowing the shapes to overlap and interact, in turn creating new colours where the shapes overlapped.

My work:

Drafting - Dummy book for final piece

I created a dummy book so I could see how my book read and which sections worked better than others. It also allowed me to sort out any problems that I might of had when making the book.

Making The Final Piece

To create my final piece I first began by drawing out inking the pictures to give the line a rough and a hand drawn line. I then took these into photoshop changed the line colour and then began to fill the rest of the image in with colour.

Final Piece

Unit Evaluation

For this unit I decided that I wanted to make a piece focussed on young children as I had done such projects in the past and really enjoyed the style and freedom you have in creating them. Whilst working through brainstorming I began to really lock onto a boy and his backpack idea and so from then I began to transform this idea into a children's book. I worked through different layouts and styles as well as experimentation which allowed me to decide upon which process I wanted to create the book in. 

A piece of work that I refined was my character drawings working from sheets of character designs to deciding on my character and drawing him in many different positions and styles. Drawing people in a simplified form for children's books is a process that I first had difficulty with to get right. However my refining and constantly drawing my character helped my to see how to get proportions and interactions with other objects right. It also helped me to discover my own style of drawing children book character's of which I would never of achieved it I hadn't done these drawings. Another aspect of my book that I have refined was the form that I was going to do the book in. By doing a range of experiments I could try different techniques and see how they can be applied to my book with me finally deciding on using inked drawings and colouring in Photoshop. 

Artists that have influenced my work I would say were Brian Biggs and Owen Davey. Brian Biggs influenced my work by the process he works in, I really enjoyed working on getting the rough, sketchy lines in ink and then taking them into Photoshop and colouring them there. By colouring them on Photoshop it allowed me to get solid, crisp blocks of colour that would of been difficult to achieve with watercolour or paint. Colouring my pieces was influenced by Owen Davey because I liked the way that he didn't use black lines for the outline but chose to instead use a darker tone that was to fill the shape. This meant that my drawings didn't have a harsh outline that would not of fitted with the style of my book.

My final piece was successful as it went with how I planned it to be. However if I was to make this piece again I would think about changing the layout of each page as I feel that they could be set out in a different way that might make the book flow better, as well as making the contrast between writing and images more equal,