childrens book – Page 2 – Natalie Kennett

Page 4

Natalie Kennett / April 19, 2016 / brief 4, childrens book, Design, page 4

This is page 4 where Lamby approaches the other lambs in the hope to make friends. However he can’t tell the difference between their onesies and is made a fool out of by the lambs. As mentioned before i made them orange and red so that it will test a child for the difference between these colours. This is not one of my favourite pages, i feel as though the scenery is a bit too close for it to look like the sheep are under the tree, i think if i had more time i would bring the tree closer to the front so that as the viewer we feel more in the book rather than looking at it from the distance.

Natalie Kennett / April 19, 2016 / brief 4, childrens book, Design, page 3

I changed the sheep because i wanted them to look the same as Lamby and Shelly. So i drew them in the distance wearing onesies. I think they look better than the first sheep i drew because it sticks with the theme of the sheep being hand drawn. It is also more obvious that they are lambs and so minus the writing i am pleased with this page and now it just needs the text to be finished. I made the lambs onesies orange and red as colour blind people can not distinguish these colours, just like they can’t with blue and purple. By only making the lambs wear the onesies, it makes it obvious that they’re the babies and therefore the colour blindness is only on them which relates to the children and highlights the fact that the book is testing for it in children.

Page 3 development

Natalie Kennett / April 13, 2016 / childrens book, Design, page 3

This is another draft of my third page of the book, I am unsure so far, i really like the flowers that i have added. I created these on illustrator by making them a scatter brush, just like i did with the trees, however on Photoshop i then added Lamby and Shelly. But i need to add colour to Shelly as it looks as though she hasn’t been colour in at all. Therefore i feel it still needs work, but in terms of layout, i think it works because it’s as though we’re looking into the scene.

page 2

Natalie Kennett / April 11, 2016 / brief 4, childrens book, Design, page 1

This is my second page of my childrens book, however i have changed it to replace the first. This is because it’s a new design and i was originally going to show Lamby being born. But instead i chose to imply it instead as it is a children’s book, So i have changed it to being a barn on the hill then the next shot will be Shelly before another page being them in the field. The process of this page is the same as the other, I formed the tree and hill and some of the barn on the Illustrator then i moved it into Photoshop where i added the details on the barn, i added the sky, grass, light and the sheep.

first page

Natalie Kennett / April 5, 2016April 5, 2016 / brief 4, childrens book, Design

This is the first page of the childrens book i have created so far, the idea is that Shelly the sheep has gone into labour with the lamb that is featured on the front cover. Therefore i have drawn her in barn lit by the morning sun, surrounded by hay. Like before i drew the scenery on illustrator then moved it into photoshop which is where i added the window, the sunlight, the shadows, the hay and finally Shelly. This took me a while to get right as i had trouble drawing the hay, i couldn’t get it to look like hay without looking too messy. However in the end i managed to find a brush that gave the jaggered edges and then used different shades of yellow to faintly add the shading and the straw effect. The screenshot with the hay next to the barn is the first attempt at drawing some hay, you can see why i hated this as it looks messy. After the straw i added the sheep sitting up against a bale of hay holding on the her tummy implying that she is in labour. Because of it being my drawing that i scanned in, it was very white and so i added an orange filter to give her warmth and then duplicated the layer, before choosing a blend mode which made her blend in with the scene more. The first three images before i added the lamb look more vibrant as they weren’t exported as RGB, however the screenshot with the sheep was and so they are the original colours.