30.12.13 To do List  and book format idea

Book mock up

I did a lot of mock up but this is the succeed ones.

Making a mock up really helped me a lot e.g. for crits, for playing illustrations ( i know which illustrations goes where) and tutorials

Book binding

(Figure 1 )Japanese book binding. (figure 2)Concertina book

Figure 3 and figure 4- saddle stitches 

Figure 4 - saddle stich

I experimented with book bindings. I prefer saddle stitch because it makes the book to open easily. 

I am not very keen with Japanese book binding as I don't think it suitable with my book and I am planning of making my book pretty small maybe either A5 or A6 size. I don't like the fact that I have to leave in between 1 and 2 cm for the bind  - hard to keep the book flat - when you open the book.

Book Binding research.

At first I thought of doing perfect binding technique but after I got some advices from some tutors at book binding studio, they told me that perfect binding does not suit with my book of style as I only have 7 pages. Perfect binding is perfect for lots of pages book e.g. magazine, text books.

Hardcover book binding

I like this ones but after I look at it properly, this book contained lots of pages. Hard cover = limited canvas (for the cover) = Can't print on top of the canvas ( I could print screen it but nah).  So I decided to do paper cover with saddle stitch,

Paper cover and saddle stitch book binding.

These are some example of saddle stitch that they've got at Vernon Street. Charming. It is very easy to make.

Inspirations.

My main inspirations for this brief are Eric Carle and Morita MiW. These are some artworks by them.

Eric Carle:-

Morita MiW:-

Both of these illustrators have used traditional collage. I like how the artists created their own textures>cutting into shapes>gluing.

I watched how Eric Carle create his texture here. I love it !

List of stories

These are a list of stories (idea) of different situations of snails have been stepped.

• My story/book : How snails have been stepped on.
• Book title : 'Crack!' - because every time you stepped on a snail you would hear 'crack!'
• I will put an exclamation mark - to show it is a sound as there is a type of drug called crack.

• I had a crits before Christmas holiday and my friends suggest me to : start idea development, look for illustrators for inspirations and ideas.
• They recommended me to draw snails from life, borrow some books from the library or draw from goole.

Primary research – Questionnaire

I asked in between 30 and 35 people and these are the best answer that I thought might be helpful for my idea generation.

1.       Do you like snail?

·         Camper vans

2.       Have you ever stepped on a snail? How and why? (If no, Imagine if you did stepped one)?

·         A crack, yep it was a snail

·         Really dark

·         Yes bare foot. It quashed through my toes

·         I once ran over a snail on my scooter

·         I was young.

·         A gardener who does it on purpose

·         In my socks in the dark and stood on one

·         Barefoot, at night in the garden

·         I was young and crazy and had a thirst for blood, snail blood

3.       When? ( year,night or day, age)

·         I was little, about 10 years of age

·         A child from age 4-10 years of age

·         11PM

·         Garden barefoot at night

·         At night

·         Last year at night

·         Usually at night

4.       How do you feel about it? How was your reaction and emotion?

·         Probably scream and grief

·         Sad

·         ‘Oh no’

·         ‘ewwwww’

·         I was like ‘opppps, i’m sorry’

·         Upset

·         Shock me

5.       What did you do after that?

·         Scrabbled my foot forever

·         Said sorry

·         Put my socks on and clean it

·         Carried the person i was with so that they wouldn’t step on anymore

·         Went inside and cried

·         Scraped m y shoe

·         Carry on walking

6.       Where can i find snail now?

·         Garden/up walls s after it rains

·         Outside

·         Pet shop, insect part of wildlife centre

·         Bush

·         Around dark, wet, rocks, grass area

·         Early morning on pathways

·         On rainy day

7.    Additional comments

·         Snails are cute

·         Zatul xxxx

·         Snails are not food

·         They usually are in group

·         I like to move snails into grass

·         Strong and independent or lovable snails?

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I have learn that if I want to do questionnaire, I have to make sure that my questions are as specific as possible so I can get the right answers.

I did two batches of questionnaire.
1st batch I asked 20 people and the 2nd batch I asked 20 people as well.

For the 2nd batch I edited some questions to be more specific e.g. for question 3, I added 'year, night or day, age.'

But overall, I think questionnaire is the best primary research and was extremely helpful for my idea generation.

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oh, I found this on my sketchbook.

Screen Printing

We divided into 2 groups by Matt. We were told to do a hotdog book by using an a piece of A3 paper and we decided to portrait our self as a zombie

My sketches

We did a print screen session. It was fun. I love print screen but I don't think this technique is suitable for my subject. I might use this technique in the future; I need to remember that print screen will take me forever so I need to organise my time properly.

•  Observational drawing. I used collage technique to create this illustration
• I dont't like this drawing because it does not look like an observational drawing.
• If I had more time I would redo this observational drawing as I did not use perspective technique at all.

I was planning of illustrating experiences of people when they stepped a snail. So I went on the internet and here what I found:-

Then I have highlighted some information that I thought that might be helpful to illustrate my idea

I also thought about conditions of snails after it have been stepped and the surface/texture of snails after have been stepped. 

But this little exercise does not help me a lot. So I decided to do a questionnaire.