Monday, 25 April 2016

What?

I've just realised people are still uploading things onto Behance, how are they doing this? Why has the Upload WIP option disappeared on my account D: Has it been moved?

Composition

Just tried a different layout now that it's been flipped the right way. Cause even though it's the wrong way I thought the symmetrical layout on the first one looked better. But I dont like that the main covers not in the middle on this one. Makes the composition look unbalanced

Edit

'Cause I just realised the back cover was the wrong way round, the spine should be on the other side.

Evaluation

I am proud of what I created this term. Out of all my concepts, I chose the cover design that was most challenging to me and I think I have produced something that before, was really out of my comfort zone. A full environment with characters is something I've never attempted before and I think the risk really paid off.

Because I had no established style for drawing environments, I was very experimental with the way the background to the cover was painted and this did conflict with my established style of drawing characters. Because of this, I do think the final cover image could do with a little more polishing. I would like to push further my environmental drawing ability and my ability to mesh my style of drawing characters and environments together.  

Also, on the character sheets. I think I built them up really cleanly. I didn't shade them because there was no need to. I just needed them as a reference for the design elements for the final costumes so I could redraw them on my book cover. The clean lines and flat colouring made the designs cleaner and more obvious.

I think the labeling looks really neat and professional on the character sheets.

Overall, I'm really happy with what I produced for this module. It could do with more polishing. But I think after you have finished a piece you can always see things that could be improved on anyway.

As a target for the future, as I go into fourth year I want to focus more on making completed images with characters (full body poses) and environments also. I want to focus more on perspective and creating visually interesting images.

Cover Designs



Final Cover design (Promo)


Building up the Cover in InDesign