"Well I wouldn't like to murder it...
but stroke it's tail...
without getting bitten...
but I didn't think that was an option - so I didn't"
A certain someone's excited ramblings regarding a close encounter with a fox.
Nuff Said.
Today was a huge relief, presentation done, 500 word synopsis (waay over that however...) bibliography, and hand out... handed in. Andd the book is printed! Ended up maunually feeding the paper as computer tech man advised, which meant people wouldn't accidentally print on me special glossy paper! Got the scanned in quotes looking a lot better using grayscale in photoshop rather than CMYK as with all the other tiff images.
I decided to illustrate the quotes into speech bubbles rather than photo collaged letters as I just loved all the illustration stuff at The Baltic and Scandinavian exhibition in Newcastle. I also thought it might be a bit too much photo imagery, and detract from the full bleed images themselves.
The book should be bound on Friday and then I'll post up some photos, but what I've basically gone for is one or a couple of these illustrated quotes and then a photo on the opposite page.
I've also had to narrow my choices of photos down and with the landscape images I grouped them in twos, with some kind of relation between them. Such as 'GAS' with 'a s l e e p' and two images of graffiti and two street signs.
The printing process definitely alters the colours, but nothing too drastic was lost in the process and with the 'Wash n' Go' image the colours are saturated which worked well to give a moodier feel!
Looking forward to the book binding workshop and seeing the finished article. In the meantime its sketchbook, sketchbook, sketchbook.
