For this project my original intention was to create a book of posters in the style of old railway posters, when I first started this book there was three things I really wanted to capture in my book the first was to engage and intrigue the audience by this I mean I wanted to capture the essence of the films but I didn't want to make the films completely obvious as to what they are, when the audience are reading the book I wanted them to look at and try to work out each film. I think I succeeded to this end as the few crits we've done I've had people come up to me and ask about the films they don't recognise. The second thing I wanted to achieve with this was a high level of detail and technical skill which I'm fairly happy with how I captured this I think it's much better on some of the pages than others. I think if I was slightly less ambitious with his project I would have been able to get all my pages to look like the Inception and Tardis pages. The final thing I wanted to do with this book was capture the atmosphere and tone of the films I've drawn, I think I did this to some degree but there was a problem that when I moved away from full colour illustrations to me it became much harder to capture the atmosphere of each film and keep it as a coherent book. But I didn't just want to capture the films I wanted to keep my own voice in them otherwise the book would have been boring. As the project went on I moved away from the initial of idea of railway posters and moved towards studies based on the films instead which made my project much more effective.
Throughout my project one of the things I think I neglected is exploration of different medias, this is one thing that if I was doing the project again I would change. Due to time constraints and the way I chose to work I think I could have explored media and done more visual research if I had cut out the digital stage of my final illustrations, But at the start I intended to work fully digitally but moved away from this when I realised I wouldn't have the time to practice working digitally to get the final illustrations up to the high standard I wanted, also in my opinion I think the digital illustration lack something the traditional versions have in terms of line quality. Most of my research for this project was done through watching the films and television programs related to the films. When I was starting out on this project I was heavily inspired by Olly Moss and Mondo posters but gradually I moved away from this and started to look at artists such as moebius and this is around the time I started to move away from working digitally. I think one of the things that really got me invested in this project is the concept but I think if I restarted my project I would change the concept slightly as I was probably slightly over ambitious with what I could achieve.
One of the first few sketches I did for the first brief of this project was of the 3-d camera and this informed my whole practice for this project after I moved away from working digitally. i really wanted to capture the texture and line quality of this image I think I worked with a slightly thicker fine liner for the camera image, For my final images I started working with 0.05 fine liners and this helped me get the level of detail I intended for my pages. I'm really happy with the line quality of my pages this is one of things I've really done well with in this project, although there are some parts towards the end where I was rushing my pages slightly more I think the line quality suffered. I think working on digital layout sketches worked really well in the end but I think if I was doing the project again though I would skip this step as I think the time could have been spent more wisely.
All in all I'm happy with how my work has turned out for this project I think it's one of the best pieces of work I've ever done although obviously there are some parts I would change but I think in the end the book has come together well, I think some of the parts I don't like are only noticeable to me as I've spent so long working on this project, But when I stood away and looked through my final book I realised it works much better when all the illustrations are together and bound as a set. One of the things i'm going to take away from this project is the book binding I really want to carry on with this as I really enjoyed doing the book binding and I think it really helped the final results I want to work in sets again which lend them selves naturally to working on books. I think with this project I have met most of my initial aims even though my subject matter and plans changed, the only thing in hindsight i feel could have benefitted my project was scanning in the pages and touching them up in photoshop and printing them out, but I think theres something to be said for working fully traditionally for my book, if I printed out the pages I would have worked on thinner stock than I ended up working on which would have helped when I came to the final book binding.
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