Evaluation

Did your plan follow the revised plan (from the mid point review)? what worked well? What changes did you make? Why?

My plan did not follow through from the mid point review because Miss Stower did not think that my idea, in practice, worked well.  I decided to change how I presented my project from a classic design to a graphically designed book. I changed this as Miss Stower thought that it would work better, be more interesting and play to my strengths.

Did you need to do anything else to change your project? What did you intend to do? By when?

When I developed my idea from the first to second draft I needed to find/create multiple backgrounds and elements to my work.  I intended to do this by the end of October, start of November so that I had enough time to develop my ideas if I needed to again.

Supervisors comments...

Miss Stower said that my first draft was too plain and was not flowing as one and told me to make it more graphically based and then said that she liked it and that I only needed to change one of two things, which I did and then she liked it.

What changes have you made when discussing things with your supervisor?

I changed the look and theme of my book and how I should present my work to attain the highest marks I could.

How are you going to present your project?

I am going to present my project in a digital animated book which is shown on a computer and it can interact by clicking and dragging the pages.

How will you structure your presentation (for next lesson - 2 minutes)?

I will structure my presentation for the next lesson by giving a quick and brief overview of how my idea developed and discuss in more detail how my idea developed after the first draft.

What are the strengths and weaknesses of your project?

The strengths of my project are that all the work is my own and it looks and feels the way that I wanted it to.

The weakness is that the way it is presented needs extra files to support it, therefore, if you do not have all the files it will not work.

What have you learnt from the project? Skills / ideas / artists / experiences?

I have learnt that I can draw in a very sketchy and rough format and also how I can easily develop my ideas into a finished piece.  I have also learnt how to use flash in even more detail and skill.

What have you learnt from the comments of your supervisors / peers?

I have learnt that I should take on board and use the comments from my supervisor/peers constructively to benefit my work.

What would you do differently if you were to undertake the project again?

I would think through the way I would present it in more detail and actually understand what it would look like in practice.

Summary

Project title: Long Lost Book

Project aim: To improve my drawing and to understand layout and graphic design. 

Main content / what did you do? The main content of my project is Greek Myths and Monsters and I wrote the stories and drew the characters in the book which I also designed and produced.

Project findings or conclusion? I found that I can draw to a satisfactory quality and that what I thought would be difficult I can find tutorials and step by step instructions to help me succeed in the task I want to complete.   I think that my project looks and feels the way I want it to.  Though it has not come out the way I thought it would I am still happy with the final look and feel of the book.

Development: Second Draft

To develop my second draft from my first I need to make it much more graphic based and think of the pages as one instead of them separated. To do this I have to join the 2 page together to make then one and then work on them. I also have use elements in this draft like pen and paper to give it a reality feel.

However I still needed to develop this draft, so I sat down with Miss Stower and went

 through each page and she told me what I needed to improve upon. This is the outcome:

Page 1:

Look at some old books and take the idea and add to my front cover

Page 2/3:

Add some text to make it more interesting 

Page 4/5:

Add a “…” to the end

Add a boarder to “Jazz it up”

Page 6/7:

Clean up the cutting around the lens

Make typography more interesting

Change the background 

Page 8/9:

Change background

Page 10/11:

Change background on name of creatures 

Page 12/13:

Change colour of white line paper

Make money fall on paper

Page 14/15:

Clean up paper clips

Make pencil bigger

Page 16/17:

Make picture bigger to fill negative space 

Page 18/19: 

Add something to it (text)

Page 20:

Look at some old books and take the idea and add to my back cover. 

All of this helped me to improve the final draft.

Development: Textures and Images

From my first draft I learn that just drawing and text did not work, I needed some other elements like paper, pencils, photo and backgrounds. So for all of the elements in my second draft I hunted down and either scanned in to the computer or  took photos of and upload them to my computer. 

From getting all of my textures and images I then worked with them in photoshop to get the look I was after, take the eyes for instants (see below) I took the photo and then worked it in photoshop by marking the brown bit of my eye out and turning them into fire, then making all of the face, apart for the eyes black and white. 

So for all of this I have learned how is customise my work, how to edit and change photos, use  textures and images to enhance my work and give it another feel.

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Development: First Draft

For my first draft I wanted to go down the road of old fashioned and give the feeling that this book has been lost and has grown old over time. So first I decided to make the background which was coffee stained paper, which I scanned in to the computer. Also for the front cover I took a photo of a leather bag and then uploaded it and worked with it in photoshop.

What you see above is all the pages for my first draft. When I showed this to Miss Stower she did not think that it worked and did not like it. The pages were to separated from each other and they needed to be thought of as being one page and cut into the two pages that I needed. Also Miss Stower thought that they should be more graphic, layer, shape, different background, elements to my work. Furthermore she thought that I should pull the creatures into the 21th century, "What would the creatures be like today?" Here is the idea that Miss Stower showed me to inspire me on how to change my piece of work.

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Development: Drawings

As I have said in my other post my inspiration for my drawings was Leonardo Da Vinci because I am not a great artist however doing my drawings in Leonardo Da Vinci style means that I don't have to be the worlds best artist, I just have to draw something that you can make out.

I started out drawing the whole creature however I quickly found out that it was difficult to draw the full character but more over, it did not give the look or feel the I desired. So I then decided to only do part of the creature, two or three parts for each creature and only the key part e.g. the face or the foot.

For this I have learned that you don't need to see all of the creature or object to get an impression or look of the object. Also I learned that I did not have to be so neat and clean with my drawings and that the rough and sketchy quality really works for me.   

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Development: Mood Boreds

Before I started to make my first draft I needed to get a better understanding of how other artists have produced the Greek Monsters. So I decided to make a mood board for each monster. See Below for all mood boards.

For my mood boards I learned that some creatures like the Cerberus (3 headed dog) are very similar and that there are somethings that you need to keep the same, such as the anger in the dogs' face. So this has really given me an idea of how I wanted my creatures to look.


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