Title Pages

The next step for the book designing is to make the title page. After designing a couple the class was told that the title page is generally more low key and that simplicity is your friend. As with most of this project, I think the hardest part is to bring the illustrators together or just to decide that it'll be focused on my guy.

 

I really dislike the above design. The fading is tacky and the diagonals don't make sense. I'm probably just gonna scrap this whole idea, as far as the title page goes. Maybe it's more of a cover thing.

   

I don't think this one's too bad. The background makes sense in terms of the title. But... I kinda want something graphic if it's gonna be in color.

   

This one's my favorite so far, except for the italics. It just feels cleaner and simpler.

    

I dislike the addition of color.

I really like this one because it gives a snapshot of each illustrators work and is really clean, but may be boring....

Every good book needs a good table of contents.

My next challenge that I have to tackle on the book project is the table of contents. I'm fighting between trying to make it a reflection of the whole book or more in synch with my artist.

Right now the spreads are kind of busy and a huge bomb on the reader's eyes but I'm going to work on that.

2nd Set

These are the second halves of the spreads. I'm kind of concerned by how few photos I'm incorporating but his have so much going on that I probably shouldn't be too worried.

Refine Refine Refine

I went back and made some changes to the spreads I posted earlier, namely moving text around, resizing and adding in some backgrounds.
I'm on the fence about the background colors. I put them in because I couldn't get the photos to come over across the median enough without losing the main subject matter of the image and I thought that adding in a color from the piece would help bring the composition together. But it might be too much.

MAKE ALL THE MONOPRINTS

In drawing media class, we got to try out monoprints and from the first day I fell in love. I love how unpredictable they are and how you can crank one out in 30 seconds and be done, and if you don't like it it's okay because you only spent 30 seconds on it.

I also love the texture that comes out of it so easily. As a young artist I find creating texture or even being able to imagine it difficult and monoprinting really makes it easy to see and create it by accident.

I think the concept of layering is really fun and creates an interesting dilemma because you have to figure out what the order should be and which colors mix well in wh
at order and such.

So I showed my friend some of my prints and he directed me to this woman and I think her donkey print is just amazing.
http://camillataylor.tumblr.com/

Book Makin'

These are my ideas for the first (of 2) pages of the double paged spreads that I have to do for my ThinkMake class. I'm really going for simplicity since Tomer Hanuka's art is so graphic and colorful on its own.

Updating!

I finally finally finally started updating my Behance profile. I have so much to put on from this semester already.

https://www.behance.net/otpuckett