Evaluation of unit 4

Second Final Piece

I decided for my second final piece, I would develop my emulation further to make it into a book cover as I thought it would look really good.

I altered the background colour to a light green and changed the lino print to white because I thought this looked quite effective. I also added institutional information like the barcode.

I then started to add relevant graphics to the back of my design so bot the front and back linked.

I then added things like the blurb and an image of the author so it started to really look like a book cover.

Here is my second final piece finished.

Final Piece

I decided to use this draft for my first final piece because I thought it was the most effective and quite poetic.

After drawing out my deign on the lino, I start to cut it out using the lino cutters.

After cutting the lino out for the front and back, I painted it in ink and printed the design.

I scanned my prints into photoshop and adjusted the threshold so the scans were purely black and white. I made a book sleeve template in Photoshop and started to place the images in the correct place.

 I then altered the colour of my image to blue as I felt that it fitted best with the mood I wanted to create in my design as blue is often linked with sadness.

I started to add text to my design such as the title. I added white boxes to put behind the text for ease of reading.

I added boxes and text to the spine, front back and flaps.

I rubbed out the edges of my boxes to create the illusion that I had cut them out with linocutters.

I added all the information needed such as barcodes and prices.

Here is my final piece completed.

Colour Choices

I really liked this colour choice because it is subtle and quite pleasing to look at. By including some black within my design it broke the colours a little bit and didn't make it look to much.

I really like this colour choice because although only one colour has been used, it is still quite interesting and pleasing to look at. To improve this colour choice I would probably make the pink less bright as it can sometimes look too much.I didn't like this colour choice.

Drafting

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