Finals Development (4-6/9)

4. Make More Of It

• This relates to my research into Scandinavia as it is about reducing waste and being economical. 
• I wanted to keep the same page layout for this and just draw images to replace the square photographs. 
• I did want to change the colour scheme. I did some colour research and found a scheme that was bright and contained the relevant colours for the content. I planned to keep the imagery black and white but on a coloured background which filled the square space. 
• I am starting to figure out a basic process, especially with drawing, but it is in the last few stages of editing that I make things a bit different. 

5. Amazing Base

• Moving away from food and on to a new theme, I feel I have solidified a process now within which I can make adaptations to make things a bit different. I felt like this feature fits the Scandi theme because it’t about simple and natural makeup - although I do feel like this is a bit of a tenuous link. 
• I struggled adjusting to drawing these products a little bit as I had been drawing a lot of natural forms and now needed to draw straight lines and geometric shapes. 
• I laid out my drawings in the original photo composition but it looked unorganised and needed re-structuring. 
• I added some colour, sticking to flesh tones, but this wasn’t working, the page looked too plain. I tried adding colour behind the images which I liked more, but the layout didn’t perfectly fit a grid structure so it still felt disjointed. 
• I tried adding some more detail with some simple stripes and I think this gives the impression of the reflection of light off the products. 
• I shifted the colour like I did previously but this time it included the dot work I had done, so it meant there was now black and white dots. I thought this might make the image look too busy but I think it shows the shine and sparkle of some of the products. 
• I reorganised my drawings and tried it with a striped background which I also like as an alternative layout. This could also be used as a header for a web article is rotated. 

6. Earth Tones

• This is a double page spread and I am only fully illustrating one page as I feel it is important for the reader to be able to see real product photographs in this kind of feature. This type of furniture relate to Scandinavian design, everything is quite simple and elegant and the ‘earth tones’ show how the designs have been influenced by the outside world. The colours are very warming which is relevant to my research into Carl Larsson’s paintings of interiors. 
• I drew these products from the existing image and a few more from the links provided at the bottom of the right hand page. 
• Layout - I tried to make the drawings tesselate to make a balanced layout and I feel like I succeeded. There is a good variation of scale. 
• I used colours from the existing full age image to form my colour palette. 
• The white background looked too bright but the grey option made the whole image too heavy. 
• Adding blue to the colour palette brightened the image but still kept that warm feel. 
• The blue was also a better background colour as it reflected the blues on the opposite page. The lighter option made the whole spread appear fresher.