Overall, I'm really pleased with the outcomes for this project. From my initial thumbnails, I realised in the feedback session that the chess based idea was the most effective and interesting in communicating the book Animal Farm. The square chess board illustration was the original idea, and then the other two were developed afterwards.
In my opinion, the portrait and square illustrations are the most striking of the illustrations, I don't think the landscape illustration is as effective.
I chose to use lino print as the medium for this brief because it's not something I had previously explored but I've always had an interest in it. I think its appropriate for the aesthetic I was going for as well. However, it is slightly frustrating that the next part of the project is all print based, so I could've spent more time exploring this idea during that part and done a different idea for this brief.
We had to use two colours, so I decided to make the pigs head a motif through the three illustrations and make it pink. The original prints are just back and white lino prints, and then I scanned them in and added the pink by cutting out some pink tissue paper and photoshopping it in. I really like combining media within my illustrations and I think it worked quite well for this.
Although I am pleased with the outcome of this project, I wish I had fully considered the sizes of this illustrations before I made them. The square illustration is my favourite and I cut it out of a large piece of lino, but when I actually printed it out to the size the illustration had to be, it was really small and I think it is a more effective illustration when viewed at a larger scale. Because of this, I think I might make it into a screenprint at some point.
I tried to create a sense of narrative throughout these three illustrations. The first illustration is the landscape one, and this was supposed to represent the battle between the farmer and the animals at the beginning of the book.
The second illustration is the square one, and this was to represent the emerging inequality between the pigs and the other animals on the farm.
The third is the portrait illustration which I wanted to represent Napoleons eventual rule over Animal Farm.
Although I am pleased with the outcome of this project, I wish I had fully considered the sizes of this illustrations before I made them. The square illustration is my favourite and I cut it out of a large piece of lino, but when I actually printed it out to the size the illustration had to be, it was really small and I think it is a more effective illustration when viewed at a larger scale. Because of this, I think I might make it into a screenprint at some point.
I tried to create a sense of narrative throughout these three illustrations. The first illustration is the landscape one, and this was supposed to represent the battle between the farmer and the animals at the beginning of the book.
The second illustration is the square one, and this was to represent the emerging inequality between the pigs and the other animals on the farm.
The third is the portrait illustration which I wanted to represent Napoleons eventual rule over Animal Farm.
No comments:
Post a Comment