Today we began to create imagery which we will later turn into an A3 screen print, before folding it into an A6 book.
We started by brainstorming different ideas for a story, the first, based upon what happened to us yesterday, was about a man who went betting every day and always lost but when he left the shop told the people he saw that he had won 'big'. However we thought although this had a lot of scope with repetition, the inability to use words would limit our outcomes. Our second sequence was about a woman who rented a different wig each day, but we felt again this was a little limiting. Therefore we decided to go with our third idea about a dog called Luna who dreams of being a race dog, and chases after and catches someone who steals someone's purse. However this story was a bit too cramped, so we decided to end it with the man getting away to show that although he wanted to be as fast as a greyhound he could never be fast enough.
After drafting the pages we decided who drew each page, and the final decision was Jen would create the cover and back, Kate would do the first and second pages, Ella would draw pages three and four, and Sophia and I would work collaboratively on pages five and six. We struggled originally to distribute the pages, as two people would only have one page each, which wouldn't be fair. Therefore we decided that Sophia and I would work together on one double spread and then copy all the artwork across to the kodatrace. Because we wanted the pages next to each other to be cohesive, we realised that they had to be created by the same person, so Sophia and I chose the 'racing dream' page so that the different styles would blend in as part of the context of the page.
We then decided on a final design for the dog character, which was drawn by Kate, as we though having one cohesive thread throughout the book would help to tie all the images together.
Once all the images were drawn we then traced them onto the kodatrace, Sophia did the sheet which will be blue and I did the red/pink one. We used china markers, which I had never used before, and found quite difficult to use precisely, but after a bit of practice I was able to efficiently build up the block colour.
We also thought about colours to use and we have settled on either blue/red or blue/pink, as we feel these colours will contrast well with each other whilst still being very cohesive. One of the things we need to finish off before tomorrow is the type for the title of the book, which we still need to decide on, as well as a few finishing touches such as adding a red line on the grey hounds and reiterating a few of the small details such as eyes.
Overall I am very happy with how these pieces are looking at the moment and am very much looking forward to turning them into screen prints tomorrow.
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