Project : Working for children part 2

Exercise : Educational strip


research





" puberty blues "







stage 1

This task was very different, more challenging and yet so exciting.  The audience was young teenagers.  I had to explain how to cope with changes in their bodies, with the title “What’s happening to my body?  It’s all going mad!”

 

My target audience for this exercise was for teenage girls, as I know what it means to go through those changes and how the changes in your body change your perceptions of yourself.  I decided to go for the obvious pink colour for girls.  The cartoon strip shows five stages of changes as a girl develops.  The style and content of the illustration was deliberately striking but simple.  At first, possibly the young girls might giggle with embarrassment at the illustrations.  However, I did not want to patronise the young women, and I hope that the warm glow of the right hand side of the strip can reassure them in their journey into womanhood.

 

Cartoon strip stage 1

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Cartoon strip stage 2

b


cartoon strip satge 3 ( finished illustration )

c


Stand-alone illustration stage 1

Stand -alone illustration stage 2

stand-alone illustration stage 3

stand- alone illustration ( finished illustration )

Project : Working for children part 1

exercise ; Working for children

research for Pre-reader ( 0-2  years )

Bing Bunny series created by Kate Greenaway illustrated by Ted Dewan

                                    












"Chocolate moose for Greedy Goose" Julia Donaldson  illustrated by Nick Sharratt.

 

"Come on, Daisy " written and illustrated Jane Simmons .

"The very hungry caterpillar "written and illustrated by Eric Clare .

"Hug " written and illustrated by Jez Alborough .



" Where is Maisy ? " written and illustrated by Lucy Cousins .




 " Orange Pear Apple bear "written and illustrated by Emily Gravett



 

 

Pre- school ( 3-5 years )

'Angelina Ballerina' by Katharine Holabird  illustrated Helen Craig.

 

 

 

'Charlie and Lola'  created by Lauren Child

        

 

 

 

'Dogger' by Shirley Hughes

 

         

 

 

 

 

'the Gruffalo'  written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler

 

     

 

 

 

5-7

 

 

'Alice's adventures in Wonderland' written by Lewis Carroll 

 

   

 

 

 

'Esio Trot'  written by Roald Dahl illustrated Quentin Blake

 

     

 

 

'Horrid Henry'  written by Francesca Simon and illustrated by Tony Ross

 

  

 

 

'Tales from the Moomin Valey’by Tove Janson and Sophie Hannah

 

    

 

 

I cannot believe how many different styles of illustrations I managed to find so far.  I know I could spend hours and hours on researching and still be amazed.

Different age of children and different approach of the subject.  The illustrations from ‘Tales from the Moominvaley’ represent the style that I like the most.  They have very simply line but they create interesting look of the character at the same time.

Brainstorm

 

Scary, wild and sad.  These are the three words I picked to play with.

 

I created a simple image of a rabbit.  Later I tried to imagine what it means to be a little rabbit in the big world and then the first word that came to my mind was ‘scary’.  I picked the pre-school age group as they need more descriptive illustrations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This is my little rabitt created partly with Adobe Illustrator and partly with Adobe Photoshop .

I tried to give this rabbit sweet and fluffy look to achieve contrast between his soft nature and danger around him.

 

 

 

 

 

Working on illustration- stage 1

 

 

( rabbit on the left side )

 

I am not happy with location of my rabbit; therefore, I will check few more options.  

 

 

 rabbit on the right side)

 

 

 

 

 

 ( rabbit in the middle of illustration )

 

 

( rabbit on the left side but not in the center of page)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The colours were chosen according to the mood, therefore everything is dark and gloomy.  The rabbit looks scared as he feels that there is a danger hiding behind the tree.  I used different textures for this exercise.  I wanted to give something to look at and to be interested on different levels for the young audience.  The wolf is hand-drawn, the rabbit is partly hand-drawn, and partly created in Illustrator.

 

I decided to be brave with the dark colours and made only one place quite bright.  There is a corner of the page where the tree has two eyes.  I wanted to make it more interesting, so the kids can wonder ‘is there an animal in the tree or does the tree have eyes?'.

 

 

                                                                  Finished illustration

 

 

 

Project : Text and image part 2

Exercise : Packaging

For this task I went to the supermarket to do research.  I have found out that there are so many different types of biscuits and the packaging is different according to the age they are aimed at.  A new range of organic biscuits for children was a big challenge.

 

The colours have to be visible but also they have to represent the flavour of the product.  When I think about raisins I see purple.  When I think about ginger it looks like fiery orange to me.  Another part of this task was to choose an animal for each type of biscuit, therefore I decided on a Dalmatian for raisins, as the spots on their fur can look like raisins.  For chocolate chips I chose a chipmunk, mainly because of the name CHIPmunk.  For ginger I chose a cat, because of the colour of ginger cats.

                                                                                   Ginger cat


   Raisin Dalmation


                                               

                                             Choc Chip-Munk

Mock up:

 

I made the packaging for chocolate chip biscuits with a chipmunk as a finished product.  The colours stand out from the other boxes of biscuits available in the shops.  I chose bold brown and bold blue colours for the background of the box.  I painted the chipmunk using acrylic paints.  After that I scanned the image and played a bit with it in Photoshop Elements.  I have also managed to make my first illustration in Illustrator, which I am very pleased with.

my first illustration made with Adobe Illustrator CS5

Finished Packaging