Graphics Evaluation

Final Draft (with notes)

Colour Schemes

 Above I have changed the colour scheme of my final design by susing a complementary colour scheme. This type of colour scheme uses colours that are directly opposite each other on the colour wheel. In this case I have used orange and blue.The blue gives the design a calm feel while the orange gives the image more appeal and makes it more eye catching and vibrant, therefore catching the customer's attention.

This design uses an monochrome colour scheme, which means it uses one colour over a spectrum from light to dark. The use of water colour made this easy to achieve as thinner amount of paint, often made the same paint look lighter than usual. The green colour makes the design look quite calming, however monotonous due to the repetion over few and similar colours.

 This design uses an analous colour scheme. Analougous colours are next to each other on the colour wheel, which means that a similar but slightly varied shades of colour can be given. The colours I have used icnlude red, orange and yellow, which are thre colours that often go well together. However, after creating the design with this colour scheme I can see that it isn't something I like or would have used in my final design as the colours blend too much into one another and also these specifc colours create an overly warm feel to the piece, which is quite offputting and wouldn't work when attracting the cusotmer. It is also fairly in unrealistic in some aspects, expecially with the earth as the colours use a more complement the original and look slightly unnatural.

Finally I used a traidic colour scheme, which from the name means the use of three different colours. I have chosen to use red, green and blue, which has allowed me to create a more realisitic design, for example I could use more natural looking colours for the earth, which are the blue and the green, while also adding some vibrancy to the the design.

NOTE: The scanner used to scan in the designs has made the colours bright than inteded, which means there is more variety  in shades of each colour.

Final Piece

I began by adding in the basics of my design, which were the background conventions. First was the front cover. I added in a photo from the range I had taken for my photo shoot. I chose this particular photo, due to the fact that it was fairly central and the lighting was of good quality, as it wasn't to dark and also had very little glare, which many of the photos did have.

I then began to add the background to the rest of ym design. I wanted to opt for a scrap-book type look, so added an effect to a shape, which i coloured blue and placed across the majority of the design. I achieved the crinkled paper effect by scanning in some scrunched up paper. I then composed the image as a pattern in Adobe Photoshop. This then gave me the ability to use it on this shape, by clicking on fx underneath the layers panel and choosing 'Add Pattern'. I clicked on the crinkled paper effect and then multiplied it, therefore causing the shape to look like crinkled paper rather than the effect resting on top of the shape and hiding it. I also adjusted the size of the pattern to be medium, as the larger it was the less clear the pattern became and the smallerit was the more overly detailed it became. I also adjusted the opacity to 100% in order to add clarity to what the pattern was.

Next I added in the suitcase pattern to my book cover flaps. I created them by editing drawings of suitcases in my sketchbook in Adobe Illustrator using the pen tool, in order to add a more cartoon look to the images. I then for each one applied the same effect I had used on the blue shape, used for the background of the cover. This was done in the same way with similar settings.

I then began to add in more detail, in order to express the purpose of the book (Travel) and also to impress the target audience of teenagers or older children. I tried to make it as colourful as possible by adding in a wider colour scheme. I created the arrows using Adobe Illustrator, once again using the pen tool. I used the arrows to enter more colour to the design, as you could quite easily create singular blocks of colour that stood out, by using the pen tool. I then added drawings of different landmarks onto the globe. I angled them all differently to fit in with the shape of the globe and create the effect of them 'popping out' of the earth. I uswed drawings instead of images and it was easier to do, I could include a variety of different styles of work by myself and also it added to the scrapbook theme of the cover and also the fact that they were like doodles, which would have appealed more to the younger audience I was designing the book cover for.

I then added in aeroplanes that I had also drawn out and then silhouetted using the pen tool. I wanted to add something like this to make it look more proffesional because of the the skills I was using but also add in more subject matter to focus of the theme of travel.

I then began to add in the title of the book, on the front cover and spine. I used the chalk type face I had created by self using chalk and lettering that I had drawn myself and then combined digitally. I thought the idea added to how I wanted to make my travel book seem like a book that also helped my audience to learn, while at the sme time used this particular typeface as it was different and worked well as a display type.

Finally I added in my instituional information. This included a bar code/ISBN number, price, synopsis, publishing company logo, image of the author, author's name and biography, publishing company website and reviews. Due to the fact that my cover was an original idea and not for an already existing book, I had to choose a random author to put on the front cover. I tried to choose one that came as close to the genre as possible. For the author's name and biogrpahy and other information I used a a digital typeface that I found on Dafont.com. I thought was suitable as it was simple yet attractive and was also easy to read.

Above is an image of my final finished piece.

Digital Type

Type

I started creating this typeface by drawing out block letters, quickly yet neatly in order to create an authentic hand drawn look.

Next I used chalk on black card in order to get this effect. I then scanned it in and saved as a patter by going into the EDIT menu and clicking on DEFINE PATTERN.

I selected all the letters first by using the magic wand tool to select the insides of the letters. I used the    add to selection button on the top tool bar, in order to elect all the letters at once.

Next I selected the PATTERN STAMP TOOL and selected the pattern that I had saved. The fact that I had selected the insides of the letters before hand meant that I only filled the insides of the letters and nothing else with this pattern.

 This is the finished typeface.

I was inspired to create this typeface, when I found similar looking typefaces using Pinterest. I used a ruler and freehand, from time to time, to achieve curved edges on some letters. I liked the central part of the letter, where is was just single lined, as thought it added some difference to lettering compared to other typefaces.

To make it different even further, I painted the letters in different colours using water colour, as I thought this would had more appeal to the typeface itself, as they looked brighter and more interesting.

Then to make them seem bolder I went around the shape using a black fine liner.

Pencil Drafts

Digital Drafts

Emulation

I began my emulation by drawing out different world landmarks. From them I picked three to use for my emulation, which were, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Empire State Buidling and the Golden Gate Bridge, as they were all fairly easy to then outline using the pentool in Adobe Illustrator, which is what you can see above.

After outlining each I then filled them, with different colours for each, in order to recreate those silhouetted shapes found in the copy.

I then repeadted this process with the pen tool with the Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Once I had silhoutted each drawing I put them all into a Photoshop document and arranged them in order to make them look appealing and fit together well.

I then produced this tracing of a map of the earth and painted it using watercolour. I thought by adding in a water colour I would be able to make the pice my own and also add in a slightly rustic look, which came slightly into the original, which had a slightly faded background look to it.

I added in the map and then finished off by adding in my intended title for my book cover, using a font that I found on Dafont.com and I thought suited the piece, due to it being a display font and also looking appealing to my target audience of teenagers. 

Copy

I created this copy mainly using the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator, an example of this being used in my work can be seen below. I drew out the different landmarks and then went around the outline of the landmarks with the pen tool. When I had finished the outline I then added colour to make it a silhouetted image, just like in the original piece. I then placed the image into a Photoshop document and built it up from there.

I began to add other land marks including the a silhouetted image of the houses of parliament. 

I then drew a large blue rectangle and placed it behind the landmark shapes. I used the fx tool to add a slight gradient to the shape, which resembled the slight colour change in the background of the original piece. I also used the paint brush tool, to create a cloud, similar to the one in the original. I gently dotted the paintbrush over the top edge of a large block of white I had already done with the paintbrush, in order to get that 'fluffy cloud' effect to the image. I also began to work on the top title, by adding in some embellishments which I had found online, which were similar to the ones which were in the title of the original. 

I then used the shape tool, to add some lines behind the embellishments, also similar to the original. Finally I finished it off by added the 'BRITAIN', suing a similar typeface, that I had found on Dafont.com.

This is the original piece.

This is my version of the original.