Color Roughs



color rough for the entire spread



In this stage of the design, it was fairly easy because the colors are limited. A marsh would usually have dark greens, browns and black. The swan would be white and the Labrador would be black. I did tried different combinations of the chosen colors. For instance, the trees would have a little green and not being just brown or the swan being a bit messy due to it being in the forest.



color rough for the dog and swan



The Rough Copy

After researching the required images it was time to do the rough copy of the spread. This was the not hard. I did have a previous rough copy of the spread before the research I made of the swan, marsh and dog. I did like the new rough copy of the spread than the old rough copy because the swan looks in the new spread appears more real and the marsh have different shapes of trees.      



the new rough copy



Research

Before creating the rough copy, I had to research how a baby swan, marsh and hunting dog looks due to the text I chose. I first started researching the swan. This was really fast and easy. To prevent me from coming back and see how the swan looks, I sketched some images. The next thing to research was how a marsh looks like. This was the hard part because I tried to find it but no book had. I had eventually found one picture but was hard to make out what was really in a marsh. Researching the marsh took some time before I actually got it. Then I concluded that most marshes had trees and logs. The last thing was the Hunting dog. I have no knowledge about dog so, I had had been given a book of dogs. I was told that Labrador’s retrievers are the perfect dogs when hunting. I then sketched how I want the dog to look and position.





 sketches of the dog

 

sketch of the swan

Brainstorming

top left hand corner of this image is
the idea i had chosen for the
spread

Brainstorming for this assignment was a little challenging. The class and I had to consider a lot of features when creating a spread. First consideration of a spread was where the text was going to be located and the crease in the middle of the spread like in most children’s book. The spread also had to be based on the text we chose in the story. Most of my chosen texts had either 3 to 4 ideas. At the end of my brainstorming, I concluded this step by choosing the text “This gave the poor duckling such a fright that he twisted his head about to hide it under his wing. But at that very moment a fearfully big dog appeared right beside him. His tongue lolled out of his mouth and his wicked eyes glared horribly.”

Introduction to the Assignment

For this assignment, the class and I had to create a spread for a short story. The spread I had chosen was the short story, “The Ugly Duckling”. It’s about a duckling that was really a swan and he got treated disrespected because of his appearance but at the end he was a really beautiful bird.