My Chosen Book (and its difficulties)
For our next brief in the Visual Skills module, we were asked to take out a book from the library at random, any book as long as it didn't involve illustration. As I was unaware of what the brief would be about at the time, I based my choice on what interested me the most. The book I selected was a non-fiction book titled 'Evolution in Action'. The book explains different evolutionary branches of species, and specialised evolutionary traits with photographs on most pages of animal skeletons 'in action'.
I found the title of the book to be quite misleading, I thought the book would be descriptions of the different evolutions with the main focus being on them specifically. However, the main focus of the book seems to be the photographs, with them taking up a majority of the book. I think this will make it particularly difficult to illustrate a cover for as, in my opinion, the best way to advertise and describe what the book is about is by using one of the photographs inside (which it already does). So I need to find a way of illustrating what the book actually does and make it look appealing.
Because of the difficulty in thinking of a way to illustrate the books cover, I did contemplate changing my choice of book completely. However on reflection, whilst working as a professional illustrator, I would not be able to simply pick and choose which briefs I do, and some will be more difficult than others. So although the book will be difficult to illustrate, I decided to go through with it and see if I can work out a decent design. The best way is to learn from mistakes, and I am wanting to challenge myself.
Reflection of the Brief
To me, the brief is giving us a task which is as much about the actual design of the cover as it is about the actual illustrations on there. I need to focus my efforts into creating an attractive cover for a book, as well as attractive illustrations that are in it. We have been tasked with creating 5 full scale roughs for the book; this will give me a great opportunity to play with the actual design of the cover.
For our next brief in the Visual Skills module, we were asked to take out a book from the library at random, any book as long as it didn't involve illustration. As I was unaware of what the brief would be about at the time, I based my choice on what interested me the most. The book I selected was a non-fiction book titled 'Evolution in Action'. The book explains different evolutionary branches of species, and specialised evolutionary traits with photographs on most pages of animal skeletons 'in action'.
I found the title of the book to be quite misleading, I thought the book would be descriptions of the different evolutions with the main focus being on them specifically. However, the main focus of the book seems to be the photographs, with them taking up a majority of the book. I think this will make it particularly difficult to illustrate a cover for as, in my opinion, the best way to advertise and describe what the book is about is by using one of the photographs inside (which it already does). So I need to find a way of illustrating what the book actually does and make it look appealing.
Because of the difficulty in thinking of a way to illustrate the books cover, I did contemplate changing my choice of book completely. However on reflection, whilst working as a professional illustrator, I would not be able to simply pick and choose which briefs I do, and some will be more difficult than others. So although the book will be difficult to illustrate, I decided to go through with it and see if I can work out a decent design. The best way is to learn from mistakes, and I am wanting to challenge myself.
Reflection of the Brief
To me, the brief is giving us a task which is as much about the actual design of the cover as it is about the actual illustrations on there. I need to focus my efforts into creating an attractive cover for a book, as well as attractive illustrations that are in it. We have been tasked with creating 5 full scale roughs for the book; this will give me a great opportunity to play with the actual design of the cover.
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