I have gained quite a lot of skills such as how to create a
narrative illustration, book binding techniques. I gained more confident to do book
binding and my final book design came out pretty neat and looking professional.
I also gained my Photoshop skills and InDesign skills; I learnt some new
techniques and helped my friends with InDesign and Photoshop. I also learnt
that there are different types of researches and I applied them quite well as
my outcome came out pretty good. I gained my knowledge about snails, a lot.
This module also helped me of gaining my communication skills in term of presenting
my ideas and helping my friends with Photoshop and Indesign.
I have tried traditional collage at first and I love the
handmade effect that it created because my time was limited, I decided to do
digital collage instead. Digital collage still gave the hand maker’s signature
but not as effective as the traditional collage. My illustrations are
simplified but legible and colourful which are suitable with the target audiences
which are children and young adult. I used a sense of humor to attract the
attention of the target audience. To make my book more interesting I tried to illustrate
my narrative with different viewpoints e.g. human viewpoint, snails’ viewpoint,
zoom in viewpoint.
There are a lot of strengths that I have identified in my work such as my illustration’s style
suit with my target audiences. I have used quite a lot of negative space and it
complimenting with my colourful illustrations. I had a lot of ideas to
illustrate my book which is good. I am
good at Photoshop so I don’t have any problem of creating my illustrations.
Simplified illustrations style suit with the format of the book that I have
chosen which is A5 landscape – still legible even though in a small scale.
There are a few weaknesses that I have identified in my work such as I left a word ‘know’ on my
2nd story (The Gardener), illustration number 5. I might need to get a friend or someone to
check my typography before print them out. Lack of experimentations and maybe
in the future I need to do more experimentation. But at least my final turned
out well.
If you want me to be honest, there are a lot of things that
I want to do differently such as I want to pick a new subject so I can gain new
knowledge. I want to try a completely new technique, media and processes. I
want to be an illustrator with lots of different skills. I really want to manage
my time more accurately by doing to do list or daily/weekly targets. I swear
next time I will update my blog consistently; at least once a week so I don’t
have to be panicking when it comes to deadline.
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