The overall concept for my picture book will be a collection of images of interesting buildings in Northern coastal Seafronts. The buildings will not conform to the 'conventional' way people deem buildings interesting; but will be images that I find interesting.
This personal approach presents a danger of the book being unrelatable to people viewing it. However I believe if the craft of the images is strong enough then this can overcome it. Plus I think people do like looking at weird buildings, and hopefully a lot of the people will be able to relate to the locations as hopefully they will have visited them throughout their childhood.
The book will feature buildings from separate northern coastal towns, not just one; which does mean more research however I think it is definitely doable to visit the locations and gather enough research in time. Hopefully I will be able to feature at least 4 different buildings from around 4 different towns, potentially 3 buildings from 5 towns. Which will put me at the upper limit of the page restrictions. The buildings will be separated through where they are located.
To help me decide which coastal towns to use, I did a small survey with 10 of my friends, collated the names of the towns which they said they thought to be the best towns, or at least the most prominent/ popular. The 5 that came up most were (I still may only use 4):
- Blackpool
- Scarborough
- Bridlington
- Whitby
- Filey
Sweet as.
Layout of the Book
After playing around with different layouts in my sketchbook I have decided to keep the book looking fairly minimal and focus on a singular building at a time possibly 2 to a page. I believe the best way to get the most out of a page will be to use a landscape page layout. If the building is portrait in dimension, they I would like to allocate 2 to a page. Whereas if the building featured is landscape in dimension then I would like to make that the sole feature of the page, potentially adding in a second, depending on the size. Max dimension 200mm wide X 280mm high (portrait). I would like to make the book landscape, make the book around 230mm wide and about 160/170mm tall. I will discuss with Matt/Jamie to see if this is ok. If not then I will have to use the full limit of 200mm for the width and about 140mm tall, which makes the book around A5 per page.
Craft of Image The initial plan for the images was to create the linework with pen, then to render the images with a grey/blue copic marker which gave a really derelict and bare feel. However, the majority of these buildings are designed to be outrageous and eye-catching, and I would hate to take that away; the use of colours in these buildings is one of the most interesting points of them, so what would be the use in taking them away? The plan now is to create the linework of the images using pen, but now I will scan in the images and render them digitally, this way I can not only play around with the colours a lot more, but I also get to keep the 'handmade' look of the linework. I will continue to experiment with different media for colour but because of the amount of individual images, for convenience sake would be better to use photoshop.
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