Cover.

For my cover, I originally wanted it to be an oven glove, to go with the song.

The first problem I had was that I couldn’t find a black oven glove. So I decided to go with orange, which goes against the idea of having no colour in the outside of the book.

When I got the oven glove home, my book was too big to just slot into the hands of the glove. I then unstitched it and it and tried to put it back together in a way that would fit around my book. I was unsuccessful in doing this, so have decided to go with a paper cover for my book.

Final Layout.

For my final layout I decided to go with white writing on a black background as this is what the Half Man Half Biscuit logo looks like.

I also decided on ‘Stencil’ for my font as it was the closest I could find to the font above.

For my illustrations I drew them in my sketchbook, as finals, and then scanned them into the computer. I then put them into photoshop to change the levels and contrast, getting rid of any pencil smudges/marks that may have been there.

After I’d done this I then put the images into InDeisgn and arranged them appropriately.

Permission.

As the song I want to use is in copyright I had to get permission from the band to use them in my book.

Emails between I and the manager for Half Man Half Biscuit:

The Giving Tree: Shel Silverstein

This book was first brought to my attention by one of my class mates, when I read it not only did I fall in love with the illustrations but the story also.

The illustrations in this book are in black and white, which is why I liked them, and was originally one of my own choices for my own illustrations.

 

 

These illustrations, to me, seem quite traditional. They remind me of the illustrations that appear in Roald Dahl books. The drawings are very different to my own style but I feel they fit the story for this book, which I want people to think when they look at my own. Also I feel the quality of these illustrations is very high, and of a quality I think I would struggle to achieve in the length of time given. It seems these illustrations are also done digitally, where as mine will be drawn with biro and then scanned in.

I like how the inside of the book has no colour but the cover does, I want the opposite of this for my book. Having a black and white cover, but then colour features inside.

Again the whole page is used for these illustrations which is different to how I want mine to be presented. However I think these illustrations are lovely and inspiring.

The Hueys In The New Jumper: Oliver Jeffers.

I also found this in Waterstone’s, and was drawn to it by the illustration on the front. It features a little circle person, drawn in black, with an orange jumper. This is closer to the illustrations I want to produce as it has a featured colour among black and white drawings.

Like the previous book I looked at, these illustrations are also very simple. However they have been created using different techniques. These illustrations look as though they’ve been drawn digitally.

Although I want my drawings to have a feature colour like these ones, I want each illustration to be within a box on the page, different to this book as these are presented using the whole page.

Shh! We Have A Plan: Chris Haughton.

This is an illustrated book I found in Waterstone’s, I was attracted to it by the fact it was illustrated using (mostly) only blue. I want my book to involve minimal colours so decided to look at this book for inspiration.

I love the style of these illustrations as they appear very simple, it looks as though each person or object is built up of different shapes in different shades of blue. I like the way this looks and I too want my illustrations to be simple, however I won’t use the technique of building up shapes to create this.

This book also only uses blue (mostly), I would like more colours to feature in my illustrations, however I don’t want the full illustration to be coloured. After experimenting with black and white, full colour and having one feature colour, I decided that having one feature colour and the rest black and white looked the best.

White Elephant: Cathie Pilkington

I found this book on sale in the library As it is a collections photobook, and I’m also making a collections photobook I decided to buy it as research.

The book is a collection of figures Pilkington has photographed from an exhibition, although this doesn’t tie in with the theme of my photo-book, it is still a collection.

I love how strange these models are, and it gives the book a very creepy feel. This is not something I want to be reflected in my own work, however I think it is cleverly done.

There are not many images in this book, and though mine will have 20 pages, I feel this book captures an atmosphere in the little pages it has. I would like people to gain a certain atmosphere from my book, maybe nostalgia, or recognise a band that brings back memories.

Workshop.

During this lesson we has to create an 8 page book, in around 10 minutes, using illustrations from a storyboard from a previous lesson. The aim of this task was to use our imaginations to make a story from illustrations that in the begginning had no meaning.

Here is my book:

I think doing this exercise also gave me more of an insight to what my style of illustration is. I enjoyed this exercise and it has given me more motivated for my illustrated book.

Illustrative Book.

For my illustrative book I have chosen to do a song. As soon as this project was breifed I thought of this song instantly, I think it will be great to illustrate.

Half Man Half Biscuit – Joy Division Oven Gloves.

Well they say she’s too hot
Yeah well guess what
I’ve got Joy Division oven gloves
If it’s her desire
I’ll put my fingers in the fire
‘Cos I’ve got Joy Division oven gloves
I’ve got Joy Division oven gloves

Ooh ooh tropical diseases
Ooh ooh chemical alarm
Ooh ooh I’m a little blase
In me Joy Division oven gloves
In me Joy Division oven gloves

I’ve been here and I’ve been there
In me Joy Division oven gloves
I’ve been to a post-punk postcard fair
In me Joy Division oven gloves
Ooh ooh Nagasaki towpath
Ooh ooh tickling the laird
Ooh ooh checking out the Quantocks
In me Joy Division oven gloves
In me Joy Division oven gloves

On a sinking ship a sailor yearns
For his Joy Division oven gloves
Nero fiddles while Gordon Burns
In his Joy Division oven gloves
Talk to the hands, talk to the hands
In his Joy Division oven gloves
Dance dance dance dance
In your Joy Division oven gloves

Ooh ooh piccalilli shinpads
Ooh ooh polishing the nave
I keep wicket for the Quakers
In me Joy Division oven gloves
In me Joy Division oven gloves
In me Joy Division oven gloves
In me Joy Division oven gloves
In me Joy Division oven gloves
In me Joy Division oven gloves
In me Joy Division oven gloves
In me Joy Division oven gloves
In me Joy Division oven gloves
In me Joy Division oven gloves
In me Joy Division oven gloves
In me Joy Division oven gloves

My grandfather’s clock was too tall for the shelf
So I sold it and opened up a stall
Selling Joy Division oven gloves
We got Joy Division oven gloves
Get your Joy Division oven gloves
Hallelujah

Development Continued.

Here is how I would like the pages of my photobook to look, I have included all the decisions made about font etc.