Lino Print + Photoshop (Experimenting with materials)

 Once I'd combined the two layers I then changed the Hue and light levels. (shown above) 

Once I'd printed the first lino, I then worked into it again and  re printed it, adding it to photoshop and colouring it.

Because I had never used the material 'lino' i thought I'd experiment by drawing the mad hatters hat out, however instead of adding the '6/10' card I added a heart playing card which is and has been a big part in my subject matter and also familarised with Alice in Wonderland.  
Inspired by:

Colour Schemes

Colour Schemes

M O N O C R O M A T I C 

Within this monochromatic I have used different shades of purple, I chose this colour as Alice's dress is blue, and I feel the colour blue allowed me to use a range of different shades to contrast monochromatic. 

I feel this looks slightly odd as having blue skin isn't exactly socially acceptable.. or realistic.

 However, If I was designing an all blue/monocromatic book cover, It would fit in well as it gives a sense of trippyness the idea of wonderland being in a different world/dream.

C O M P L E M E N T A R Y 

By looking at the colour wheel, I chose two colours which complemented each other - YELLOW and PURPLE.  

When doing this I used a range of warm and cool purples and yellows to give the image more depth. Before doing this colour scheme I automatically thought it was going to look awful, However I quite like the complimentary effect.

 The downside of this is that the two colours don't really have relevance if i used them for my final piece, and I feel they limit my design.

A N A L O G O U S 

For my analogous colour scheme I decided to use the colours blue, yellows and greens,

I chose this colour scheme as I wanted to get a good range of different colours into my colour scheme to help me figure out what colours worked well together. 

T R I A D I C 

The colours I used for my triadic colour scheme were green, pink and blue. I didn't really like these colours together and fond it very difficult to try and make it look appealing.

Polystyrene Print + photoshop (Experiment/Drafting)

I Decided not to further this book cover technique as I was not happy with the effect or quality for something suppose to be on 'the shelves of today' despite this I liked using polystyrene as it was something I hadn't worked with before. 

I then decided to just see what it would look like if I was planning on making this style into a book cover sleeve, I added more grass my lino print and the pocket watch also a polystyrene print.

This is a screenshot of both layers merged together.Once I had done this, I then came to a holt, as I was unsure how to get the detail onto my print, as making facial features proved extremely difficult. Therefore I crew out the outline of my polystyrene print and overlaid it with what I had already done.

TI then built up the layers - colouring them as I went.

Once I'd scanned them in, I then put them together in photoshop and coloured them (shown above)

Firstly I got some polystyrene, drew out the individual parts of my front cover and then cut them out and printed them.

          

My Book Cover - Drafting Idea's

Written Analysis - SWAY

CRAP ANALYSIS - 'SWAY'

Typography - 'dreaming'

From taking inspiration from my mood board, I designed a simple yet 'wonderland' like typeface, using black ink.

Type Face - M O O D B O A R D S

Another digital mood board looking at other various typefaces which caught my eye(:

I selected a  few typefaces from various different in wonderland book covers for inspiration for creating my own type face.

Artist Copy and Emulation

 Once I had finished my artist copy I emulated it into my own 'Alice In Wonderland' typed theme, adding images from my previous experimentations i.e subject matter photography and drawings.

Sketching out and going over in blue biro. (copy)

Scamps for Book Cover

Rough scamps - In doing these possible book cover spreads, inspired me to create a range of possible idea's in order to develop and experiment to create my final piece.

Water Colour - Subject Matter

drawings drawn using black biro and coloured using water colour paints - inspired by my subject matter.

Subject Matter - Development

 Once I'd drawn out the different types of mushrooms I scanned in the images and coloured them onto photoshop.

Drawings of Subject Matter

From my photography and Pinterest boards, I created drawings relevant to my subject mater, I used a range of materials for example, water colour pencil, fine liners, HB pencil, and black ink along with a dip pen.