Final Brief Research and Process
After printing and glueing the book together here were the final results:
After all being set I scanned the drawings and worked on the book layout in Indesign.
For the cover of the book I’ve decided to focus on one of the techniques we learned to work on during our Visual Studies lectures: playing with Negatives and Positives:
Concertina Book style- research
By making the book “Concertina Style” the layout instantly stands out and becomes interesting.
Drawings’ Process
The dinosaurs are not entirely inside the page, and that’s the whole purpose of the book: To admire the giant, and laugh at the contrast with the little. – “The dinosaurs were so big that they couldn’t fit inside the page.”
AxA3 Sheets of my own photographs that I used as reference from my independent site visit to the National History Museum. I focused on the contrast between giant animals with the tiniest ones, trying to mainly show their structure. (when I tried to print the mood boards and these sheets the printer only could print it in A4 paper, but the work was made in A3 size as asked)
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Mood boards
Process: Typography / Graphic Novels Research / Fine Line Pen Drawings Research / Illustrations / Animals and Anatomy / Scale / Negatives and Positives
But then improved my idea by searching informative children’s books and some anatomy illustrations that I took for inspiration later:
At first I wanted to do a tiny Graphic Novel, like the ones below: (“Stitches” and “A Contract to God”)
Some Sheets of Preliminary Sketches and Plans. I’ve been taking some notes to explore and deconstruct ideas:
1st A3 Sheet
2nd A3 Sheet (I’ve decided it’s going to be about Scale)
3rd A3 Sheet
4th A3 Sheet (this was some research and practise/ideas for my first brief choice, but the style of drawing is going to be the same)
Plans
My brief choice:
(But this was my the first idea for the original brief choice)
During Study Week I researched various galleries and interesting museums, ending up visiting the “Animality” (the relation between Humanity and the Animal World) exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery.
The exhibition was a collection of Sculptures, Photographs and Illustrations.
This piece ‘Untitled’, although not very clear, is a representation of an Octopus and a Crab fighting. Confusion and a sensation of mess were the objectives the artist was trying to achieve in the sculpture.
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This sculpture grabbed my attention as well. ‘Tightrope Revolution Kid’ is questioning everything since cultural and racial to class definitions. The bull has a gun on one hand and a Blackberry on the other.
These photographs while at first seem like ordinary wildlife photography, they were actually taken at a museum display of taxidermies animals and fake plants, clearly critiquing humans and how they frame/romanticise the Animal World.
Our next task was to build a Skeleton made out of paper and do a series of different styles of drawings, like the following:
Graphite Stick- Tonal Drawing
Line pencil drawing
Blind Drawing
One Line Drawing
In the following weeks we did various experiments with painting and collages, learning a variety of new techniques, unfortunately my 2 A2 sheets of 8 experiments each were lost. What I still have is another experiment we did with Mono-printing. We were asked to collect a variety of pictures we liked, putting them together in a mood board style. Then, with Nathan and Ruth’s help, we learned how to mono-print:
In the first week we were asked to build a tiny booklet and illustrate a story about how we were feeling on the vey first week of Uni. This was my result: Moving Away
CATARINA BAKKER - Graphic Design & Illustration 