Efe Igbinadolor
C O N T E N T S Research & Analysis 4,5,16,17,26,27 Experimentation 6,7,8,9,12,13,14, 15,18,19,20,21 Subject Knowledge 10,11 Technical Competence 22,23,24,25,28,29
RESEARCHING OKIDO The Okido
magazine is a science and arts
magazine for two to seven year olds. four
times
year,
a
it’s
stylishly
designed
and
from
ravening
worlds
the
a
welcome of
escape
television,
Disney.
consumerism and
Okido
Published educational,
has been designed for both parents and
children in order to spend time together, this
being
both
Every
important
generations
design keep
an
Okido
rather detail
from the
20
is
are seen
than is x
a
factor
Okido
considered
in
more
book
throw
considered
20
for
size
as away in
a
the to
magazine. the
design
making it easier for young children to hold to recycled paper which means a variety of drawing tools can be used on the paper this is extremely important as the
Okido
is
a great activity book that encourages drawing and learning.
Each
issue looks into different
topics from dreaming the brain or growing this is to help educate children through play and help answer the curious questions children have about
CREATING AN CHARACTER When
developing possible characters which could got to the end where she got stuck up into the
live in the sky community
I
wanted to think about rainbow and became part of the sky community.
all the different roles of weather then choosing one element and personifying that weather to give in back story.
I
decided to take the rainbow
When creating the Renee I first tried
visually
representation
of
to develop her face and made
and use that to demonstrate the leader of the the decision that her hair would play a big role sky community as
a rainbow is formed by having in her identity making it have a mix of colours
rain and the sun but isn’t a source of weather. like tie-dye or giving it a ribbon look so it
I
also choose to use a rainbow, as it visually represents
Renee
a
rainbow
more.
The
first
drawing
appears friendly and happy because of the
of
spectrum of colour.
making her hair look like its dripping from rain
The
don’t think this worked well as body seemed to
then having body be made out of a big bow.
back story
be
Renee the
other
Renee with
is
the
name
of
the
characters
rainbow
in
the
sky
unlike
weather
and
all
that go on in the sky.
the
community
One
different
floating
and
giving
it
human
features
all feet didn’t fit with the style of drawing.
was previously a girl who was fascinated the
was dividing the word rain and bow so
things
day playing in the
field she saw her first rainbow she thought it was beautiful so decided to chase it until she
I
like
Instead
of
using
a
bow
for
the
body
I
decided to use a cloud and have her wearing willies with drop of coloured rain coming from the cloud
,
but changing her tie dye
hippie hair to rainbow sections.
I
looked too on
I personified. I
did like this style
one
feature
of
her
Although
thought that she decided to focus
character
and
took
the body away and decided to use only the head
and
make
her
rainbow
feature with a headband.
hair
the
main
When
creating my characters its important to give them
life by altering their facial expressions or how their body moves to help communicate an emotion or to give the character more range for the audience.
Also
using one
expression can communicate different feelings for example
‘I’m ‘goodbye ‘
a sad face could be used to say you’ or
Also
the
way
in
which
effective what emotion
a
character
sorry’, is
‘I
love
positioned
they are communicating too
can
When
Pablo pollution I had a much how I wanted to illustrate him
developing the character
more straightforward idea of
my first quick sketch was based on the idea that you would hear
his
voice
and
cloud of pollution.
then
After
slowly
his
face
doing this sketch
this style was too whimsical
I
emerges
I
from
a
decided that
wanted to create a character
that had more human characteristics but also fit within the style
of
rainbow.
I
did
develop
Pablo
the
pollution
by
taking both the quiff and smoke rings this helped to give my character more personality.
From
my illustration it gives
me a clear understanding of how to create story mannerism such as his sarcasm frowning and blowing smoke as a way to taunt the sky community especially
Renee
the rainbow
.
STORYLINE To
get a better understanding of how my chracters would communicate with each other
I
needed to do an example draft of a storyline.
Opening The
sun shone down over
Second It
Third Pablo Fourth
scene
scene got an idea
scene
sucked up the smoke from all over the city and blew it into the sky
‘oops
so sorry’
he said sarcastically
Fifth The
Candy City
was a beautiful day and everyone in the sky community was happy.
Then
He
scene
effects of this made
Claude
scene
the cloud sick he started to
turn grey
CHILDREN ILLUSTRATORS
When I
looking into other children illustrators
found
Nathan Reeds
on my own bold of
a
I
black
like the way in which he uses
lines
character
proportion.
style very influential
to but
focus also
on
the
plays
details
with
the
I
also prefer more hand rendered illustrations
Dahl
such as
Quentin Blake
who illustrated the
Roald
stories, his style is very free in structure but includes a lot of details and colour.
illustrations also have a child like quality to them.
Bringing
His
both theses styles together one more
traditional may also help to consider both the parents and the children who will be interacting
NEW CONCEPT After
thinking about using the weather to help further
children’s
understanding
of
the
science
behind
it.
I
decided that this would be too complicated and not fun enough to use within a story therefore other possible concepts.
This
one
concept
Which
could
I
began looking at
children could relate to?
revolve
curiosity its called behind door
around
29
the
idea
of
where within each
series there is a different story to be explored behind door
29
and
different
weird
characters.
On
the
right
are a few screen prints of the first page of the story that would begin with a sequence of different doors in different colours
NEW CONCEPT Another scares you
concept which
.it
I
am interested in exploring
is what
will consider all the things that children are scared of
such as
The dark The toilet Spiders and bugs Vegetables Boggie man I
think by highlighting the different things that children are
scared of in a story will hopefully help children to feel like they are not the only ones but also help them conquer their fear by giving them a new understanding of the situation.
When
developing the character for the first story where the
is thunder and lighting
I
fear
considered different angels and how
could use the character expressions to help convey fear by looking at other children illustrators my style of drawing to suit a story
I
.
I
also
was able to adapt
and make my drawings less
clean and have more visual appeal for the audience
.
WHAT SCARES YOU ?
Other
element
I
wanted to consider was
the presentation of this series of stories because this new concept scarred
?’
of
could
‘What
be
an
are you
on
going
booklet which could be a bonus feature to the
Okido
magazine and could be a
free gift given to subscribes therefore it must have a consistent presentation.
The
purpose of this booklet is to be
not
only
but
to
a
story
also
be
telling used
as
illustration an
children
activity
colouring
book
that
can
take
anywhere.
The
key in the presentation
of this booklet is hiding which is what people tend to o when they are scarred
The in
front cover of this booklet holder will feature the title illustrated
type
each
letter
unique
to
give
a
collage
cut
out appearance but in the corner is a girl hiding and at the back thought bubbles.
This
demonstrates what most of the stories
will be about the idea of being scarred of the unknown or your imagination
making
you
encased by the holder hiding thought
but on
a
slim
the
gap
opposite
scarred.
Inside
the
booklet
will
be
where the characters will appear to be will page
be
left
will
be
to
represent
the
title
also using illustrated typography
.
them
of
peeking
each
story
ILLUSTRATED TYPOGRAPHY Illustrated
typography will be used on the booklet holder to give
it a more personalised finished and also to in keep with the hand illustration of the story.
I
To
experimented using the word
help me considered different styles
‘why’ I
thought about using a lot
of pattern and detail for the cover so it would be eye catching but also for it to look visually interesting, as it will be in black and white to continue the theme as a colouring in activity.
I
also
researched
typography
as
a
into
way
of
Javier Mariscal capturing
and
excitement
how and
he
uses
treating
letter separately in the detail pattern and colour
his each
MEDIUM For
the
keep
them
the
I
illustrations black
audience
to
wanted
and
white
add
the
to
to
allow
colour.
I
wanted to use a hand technique rather than illustrator because overall not
appearance
too
clean
to
I
be
therefore
wanted the crafty
I
and
decided
that dry point was the correct medium to
use
,
but
in
order
to
overcome
the limitations in dry point such as using thin lines
I
had to add more
details the three images are of two examples
of
how
the
technique
on two different types of
looks
paper and
the other is the template.