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WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HAVE IN STORE..?
Breathe easy - the journey is far from over!
The next part of the book is currently in the vague and mysterious limbo called production stage.
In the meantime, let's have a look at what this stage may look like - using the creation of the first part as an example!
My kitchen corner, with some previous works of mine serving as some in-your-face inspiration.
Behind this scene, paintings were filling up the kitchen counters for days on end - some were even hung with tape from the top cabinets to dry. Our kitchen has been extremely colorful during this time.
In this painting, I used watercolor mixed with a lot of water for the background (and left some parts unpainted in order to create the clouds), and gouache for the foreground parts. No cats just yet.
My regular weapons of choice are ink, fineliners, gouache and watercolor. I used all those mediums in different parts of the project.
Behind the painting you can see my sketches, created after writing the script and setting up the book pages in InDesign, including initial text placement. At this point I head a pretty clear idea of which visual elements needed to be created in order to tell the story I wanted, and taped together a crude miniature first-version of the book.
I ended up deviating from the plan a few times as I created the physical artworks - such as moving parts of the text from one page to another, or doing something differently in terms of the layout of the images or the colors used - as seeing the finished paintings in some cases made it pretty obvious that my initial plan wouldn't quite produce the results I wanted.
In this one I used black ink, which produces a very satisfying level of black, combined with white gouache. I wanted to create a sense of mystery, beauty and tranquility - as well as to add a small dash of loneliness; kind of an "us-against-the-world" vibe.
Gouache. The goal here was to create an inviting and open coastal scene.
Trying to understand cat anatomy.
Results!
Sketch stage - after script-writing, but before getting messy.
I'm bad at taking screenshots and documenting my digital work, especially in stressful exam periods such as this one - but here's one from when I was working on the promo material. I used the raindrop element from one of the paintings created for the book, and chose a layout/design style resembling that of an older book.
Here's a screenshot from the process of working on the actual book. At this point, I had edited the images in Photoshop - mostly cropping and adjusting the levels, but in some cases I had to go in and remove some specks of ill-placed paint or random dust marks.
