Publishing Design // Task 2: Content Generation

 

06/09/21 - 05/10/21 (Week 3 - Week 7)

Caitlyn Aurelia Tjandra (0339381)/BDCM

Publishing Design

Task 2 - Content Generation

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Instruction

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Task 2

Content

Written Topic

In my book context, I wrote about the personal experience I had through life. Lately, I realised how different my life would be if I had taken a different path and decisions in life. I felt grateful that I could make the right choices, especially fighting for my chosen major. Since, a lot of my friends have actually changed their majors halfway through university. Therefore, I used this opportunity to share my side of the story of how I decide through life and explain the importance of choosing your own path in my story.

My writings will focus on creating the opportunity to make your own choices in life. There are several people that choose their decision based on their friends' or parents' opinion. In this book I wanted to show my mistakes and my reflection of going through the hard time as a teenage highschool. I would focus on the two big decisions that had happened in my life, such as moving to a new city and choosing my own major path. 

After writing, we then need to identify 16 parts in our writing to turn into visualisation of the book. Here are my result:

Visualisation

References

For my visualisation, I thought of using photography. However, since my topic was to pave your own path, illustration would better suit the overall aesthetic. I wanted to do just a simple big picture illustration and since in the story I was looking back towards my memories;I wanted my visual to have a papery texture to evoke the old, vintage, looking back mood. 

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Try Outs (week 3)

I tried to use Procreate to produce my visuals. That way I could draw it on my iPad. This is my first attempts :

Fig 1.4 Visualisation attempt 1

Drafts (week 4)

After feedback, I redo my drawing to be more abstract and I get inspired of surrealism and conceptual illustration, which was my favourite type of illustration. First, I made a small element which was optional and its up to me if I wanted to include this in my book or not.

Fig 1.5 Small Illustration (Optional)

This illustration is for the line " Every word the teacher wrote down seems like a calculation of algebra that’s impossible to solve." I made the conversation like a telephone string to symbolise conversation. However, from the similar image of intestine we could see how the conversation is difficult and all over the place.

Fig 1.6 1 page illustration 

This one is for the line "I was doodling a character illustration " It also shows how I'm doing two girl faces facing away from each other to show my contradict thoughts.

Fig 1.7 1 page illustration

This illustration is for the line " dwindling as the clock ticked ever closer to the magic moment when the bell would finally ring". Instead of drawng a normal clock, I was inspired by alice in wonderland in which convey how I was bored and going in through time.

Fig 1.8 1 page illustration

This illustration is for the line " My house sits on top of the little hill like a cupcake on a sugared plate. Strong stone bricks, creaky iron gates and a door of aged oak." Which was an exaggerated portrayal of how I view my house in my hometown. Cupcake symbolises a small and comfy home which gave me a pleasant feeling.

Fig 1.9 2 page illustration

This illustration is for the line " Sunny rays blind my eyes as I see silver planes cross the evening skies, their white trails left to fade with the last of dusk". Instead of showing the landscape like my first draft I changed the perspective to a window to portray a sense of new beginning or an open window to a fresh path.

fig 2.0 1 page illustration

This illustration is for the line " As fun as English could be, I was still struggling to get by. I wouldn't say I’m failing, but I was close if it had not been the helping hand of my English teacher." This shows an unknown character with tape over a head drinking while the steam are made into clouds. This shows how a failure could turn into something like a cloud in which cloud could turn into any form and only time could tell.

fig 2.1 2 page illustration

This illustration is for the line " wasting my time getting stuck in something i’m unhappy with" This shows an usb port strangling around a neck. When you look at this, you could feel the stuffiness and how strangled this person is. This shows how I was stuck in my path and shows how I was letting all of this unfold without trying to even do research.

fig 2.2 1 page illustration (Week 5)

This illustration is for the line " The sight of leaving my friends behind and facing a new one was imaginably horrible." This shows character facing and stands out from her surrounding. This shows how I was stuck standing looking over the past while everyone else was moving forward and perhaps I was the one left behind.

fig 2.3 1 page illustration

This illustration is for the line " As I was sleeping that night, I was still thinking over his words. " I was inspired by the term fish dream in which symbolises a new beginning in which I was about to take.

fig 2.4 1 page illustration

This illustration is for the line " preoccupied on examining each of the faces that went out of the gate ". This shows several eyes looking around, which is a rendition of what was going on at that time.

fig 2.5 1 page illustration 

This illustration is for the line " The lunch bell rings and I’m freed from the classes I’m unable to understand ". This represents a brain within a light bulb to represent how I switch my brain on and off in order to learn something that I am not fond of.

fig 2.6 1 page illustration

This illustration is for the line " Perhaps, you would need to ask yourself first if you are happy with what you have now to know if you’re in the right direction or not.". This illustration depicts a person sitting atop an arrow that says "happiness." This would be presented in a two-page spread where the other would be reflected, demonstrating how there are no proper ways to happiness unless you take a minute to ask yourself whether you are happy right now.

fig 2.7 2 page illustration

This illustration is for the line " As we go through life, we have to choose from numerous potential paths, each of which gets intertwined with others. ". It is being represented by numerous shoes dangling by their shoelaces. This depicts the various pathways we take in our life and how, in the meantime, I am suspended by a rope and unable to move.

Fig 2.8 1 page illustration

Final Visual Compilation

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Feedback

Week 3

Specific Feedback:

The illustration style is already good. However, I need to be more abstract in my illustration in order to catch people's attentions.

General Feedback:

Think like a fine art artist, not a graphic designer. This is because fine art is more creative in drawings and abstracts.

Week 4

Specific Feedback:

These are much better!, Mr Vinod liked how I did the character using a tape head.

Reflection

Experience

I learn a lot of experiences in this task. It was fun to get back into illustrating and drawing. However, I was first perplexed since we couldn't present a direct work because it needed to be abstract in order to get others to read it. Although, it helps challenged myself to be more creative and go out of the box.

Observation

I've noticed that the more abstract the illustration, the more distinctive it is. This session has taught me a lot, including how to zoom in on specific items to make readers wonder what they seem. This elevates our creativity to a higher level of beauty and engagement.

Findings

I find myself thinking critically about how to make my artwork more surreal and abstract while yet retaining the substance of my tale. Meanwhile, after completing my work, I was pleased with how it turned out because of the quantity of abstract and how I was able to come up with specific concepts.

Further Reading

" The importance of book illustrations"

This is an article by Maaillustrations which talks about what is the importance of illustration in the book. Why do we need to include visual contents in a book instead of just text? Well, this article tells you the use of illustration in drawing attention and conveying message to the reader.

"Book Illustration Styles and Technique"

This is an article by Ingramspark talking about the importance of illustration as a crucial element of decoration and style that binds a book’s theme and purpose.

" Is there a fine art to illustration?"

This article by Artbusiness talks about what sets illustrators apart from fine artists, and what brings them together. I looked into this matter because one of the feedback from mr vinod was to think like a fine artist not a graphic designer. I wanted to know what sets them apart and how do I combine illustration while maintain an artsistic and abstract style that would grab reader attentions.