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Having chosen to make this a smaller brief that is somewhat like a break from the others - My intention was to not spend very long on each piece.

The idea behind this one was to create an image based around the subheading 'RIP Golden Age of Hollywood'.

It is very literal, I am aware of this - but my feeling is that the illustration should support the article and inform the reader what is about rather than be so far-fetched that it just looks like a pretty picture in the middle of some words.

As it was about hollywood, I started with the idea of funerals you see on American shows where they have a big picture of the deceased at the front, surrounded by flowers - and then I just needed to communicate that it was 'The Golden Age' of Hollywood that was being referred to as the deceased.

I did vectorise all the different components and when it all came together, I thought it worked quite well.

Postcard...

As mentioned in a previous post, I wanted to have a 'thankyou' postcard to give with the book that will be sold.
It looks like the book but the change of colour differentiates the two.

Its pretty simple but I like the gesture.

This is the colour and layout I have chosen to go with...at the moment, I might ask some opinions first though!

Oh dear.

I have officially hit my first big problem.

Due to injury and reading week...yesterday was the first day I've been in college for nearly 2 weeks.
I printed my book fair book out in the digital print room downstairs and decided I definately wanted to print down there.

But when I went to book in today...there wasn't time to print what I needed and we can't print down there for the rest of the week.

...I need everything for Saturday so I should have had a plan B but...I didn't.

I have no excuse, I should have emailed James but...ahh!

Looks like I'm gonna have to Laser print the books on A3 and not do my posters :(
I guess it will bring the price down but...its far from great cos they'll be pretty poor quality now!

Silly girl.

For the book fair...

Having printed my book at A2 and A3...I think I am going to pursue the A3 size book.

A few problems occured with the A2 one - As its being folded down so much, I needed a stock thin enough to fold...but thick enough to hold the ink. Sugar paper seemed fine, using a lower amount of ink - but the paper curled slighty and the corners damaged quite easily because when it was being sent back through the printed, it was still quite wet.

The same problems are apparent with A3...but I think that size makes it less 'in your face' when you're looking through it.

However! I did really like the 'It was Too much, Too young' at A2 scale - for that reason, I am going to print some out as posters...possibly in a different colour to the book (see below:)


Therefore, for the book fair on Saturday, I will take:
- 10 books and postcards packaged in small brown bags.
- 5 A2 posters.

A2 Printed book

A2 Printed...

Book mock up 2

A3, Laser printed on sugar paper.

The picture below shows the main flaw in laser printing, when its folded the ink cracks which deminishes the quality straight away.

Book mock up 1

A3, Laser printed onto to the basic paper already in the printer - Just to test.

The Guardian Brief issue

After re-thinking 'The Guardian Brief', I shall be re-writing it.

The initial issue which was raised was working with frames; I had said that I was going to illustrate the same 2 columns every week, but this doesn't give me the oppurtunity to work with a variety of frame sizes etc. It will become very...samey.

Therefore the changes I have made are as follows;
- Produce 10 illustrations - (this was my original intention but I expanded it...which made it a longer brief, but I didn't intend for this to a substantial brief, I intented it to be a relatively quick one.)

- Illustrate any article - doesn't necessarily have to be a column with a 'made up', crazy illustration to go with it (This brief was really a chance to develop my basic illustrator skills and working with an existing context for an image - not just drawing something for no reason.)

- Still vectorise everything - (It was an illustrator aimed brief - giving me the chance to work more with the software.)

Although I have altered the brief slightly, I don't want to completely disregard all the work that I have done - so I may still choose some of these to go in my final set of 10 illustrations.