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| Despite the initial ideology that Vegan food is 'boring' and 'all natural' (even that it isn't) I want to keep the theme of it being somewhat clean eating. I feel a lot of vegan cookbook selling points are based around health more than anything else - so I would like to portray that ideal despite the contents actually including (essentially) shitty fast, junky food. Therefore, for the background of the cookbook, the plan is to take the colour from a Katie Scott illustration because her backgrounds are a neutral, perfect off white therefore insinuating a neutral/natural feel to everybody who's looking at the actual book. |
Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Idea for background of cookbook
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
Accuracy within repeat patterns
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| Initial problems within the repeat pattern is that you have to be careful as to where you are placing the images or else you end up with an unsightly random repeat of an image. Also, without measuring you don't have a chance with getting it to fix comfortably inside the page. |
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| For fixing this, the repeat pattern needs to be shrunk from 49.60 to 12.4, 75% smaller. Then it should fit comfortably onto an A4 sheet. |
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| This is the repeat pattern square and heres how you do it: PIXELS 1200 x 1200 Flattern image Offset 50% |
Sunday, 16 April 2017
Vegan Food Illustrator - "VeganStoner"
http://theveganstoner.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1
I'm not going to take a huge lot from the illustrations that Stoner uses in his cookbook - however I intend to take inspiration for the actual steps to creating the food itself.
The main thing that's inspired me is the blunt, informal way it reads. I'm not intending my cookbook to be the formal, precise kind that you find by nigella. More, unique and simple with a hint of humour! That's how stoner does it too; example: "8 Munch."
This way when I come to giving it out, since the target audience is quirky teens, 20 odd year olds who have a low budget but don't wanna subject themselves to the grotty food of corpses. Yum!
I'm not going to take a huge lot from the illustrations that Stoner uses in his cookbook - however I intend to take inspiration for the actual steps to creating the food itself.
The main thing that's inspired me is the blunt, informal way it reads. I'm not intending my cookbook to be the formal, precise kind that you find by nigella. More, unique and simple with a hint of humour! That's how stoner does it too; example: "8 Munch."
This way when I come to giving it out, since the target audience is quirky teens, 20 odd year olds who have a low budget but don't wanna subject themselves to the grotty food of corpses. Yum!
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Digital 2 second plan (02:49 insomniac decisions)
FRONT COVER - bold, eye catching, cute 
CENTRE OF BOOK - Each page seperate
BACK OF BOOK - Repeat pattern design
FINAL SHOW PROJECT
CENTRE OF BOOK - Each page seperate
BACK OF BOOK - Repeat pattern design
FINAL SHOW PROJECT
Spiral Binding DIY / Zine Page Count
https://youtu.be/_W99DY-iHcc
Zine page count
- 3mm hole puncher
- Pencil
- Spiral binder (eBay that shit)
Zine page count
- 20 pages including front and back page
- 9-11 will be cut out pages to create your own meal planner
- Front - one solid image
- Back - repeat pattern
Initial experiments and conclusion of style
The initial stage of my design work was to experiment via hand. This was nothing new to me because I've always been very "doodly" however I figured, nobody wants to eat something in black and white. But my experiment with colour, previously painting with acrylics was poor unless I wanted a fine art piece (which is not the aim at all.), watercolour left me with a uninteresting finish. (As shown below ---)
By all means, I love the finish and I love the way of working with watercolour, but it's just not what I want visually for my cookbook. Many illustrators I love use solely watercolour, but it just isn't gunna cut it for my for my goal in this book! So I later went on to digitising -
I love, love, love digital. I love how you can alter colours even after you've coloured in. I love editing up and making it pop. I love making layers to hide the layers and to see what it previously looked like and the steps I took. I love the way that you can create a solid shape and form. I just really enjoy the way you can proceed with digitising work! However with this work, I think I need to think of how I want my image to finally look. By all means, this was fun, but do I want something so bright and bubblegum? I'm going to look into sample art. I want to expand my exploration and try scanning in a lightly drawn image and then go over it with no lines involved - almost like a stamp or like a stencil!
Final Inspirations, plans and elaborations 💃🏻
The idea for my Final is that im going to focus on more towards a product design scale. I want to test how I work with an audience in mind - in summery also having the final marketing scene stand during the show.
Initial plans come of that and of nothing more than; a cookbook. To be exact, a vegan cookbook. The cookbook with have multiple page in which contain a full illustration of the meal and then an informal, relaxed, quirky ingredients list. For all intentend purposes I will not be giving a step-by-step on actually making the product because it's self explanatory (although there's a possibility I will be very shortly describing the over all process but nothing indepth). Reasoning behind that is to keep everything short, sweet and tied in with the whole concept of it being a quick, simple and cheap way for students to eat cruelty free.
To actually know what I'm drawing I'm doing a mix between my own dishes and I will be creating or pre-using a thead off of the site "what fat vegans eat" so that I'm not limited for what dishes I place in the book (especially considering I eat many of the same meals each week. I suck at variation.)
The Research
Kid Acne
The way I'm going to incorporate an inspiration through kid acne, is that I'm going to create a large posted at the end of the cook book to be placed above and mounted during the show. I'm ado going to be using the way he works as inspiration- the flat, almost wood printed look of his work. The way he leaves gaps between the block colour is interesting and something I would like to explore.
Katie Scott
The inspiration coming from Katie Scott is less of my usual interpretation. This time I'll be using her way of working - the method through scanning in and producing a finished, absolutely crisp piece of work via photoshop. This way I can get the colours either exact or muted (since I'm going to be looking into the idea of sample art which is also knowingly a big inspiration for Katie Scotts work.) My earlier experimentations have definitely inspired this way of working since prior works have become extremely stronger in my opinion, than hand drawn and it's a much more professional way of working. I really love the way you can edit any mistakes without having to re-do a piece 30 times over.
Katie Wilson
Wilson will inspire and has previously, inspired me to do repeat patterns. The idea is to apply the repeat patterns to a detachable meal planner in the centre of the cook book and also the idea of using a repeat pattern to show via a podium in the show. This will add a very quirky, unique touch and could be a big selling point and eye catching statement for the individuals exploring the show at the time.
Initial plans come of that and of nothing more than; a cookbook. To be exact, a vegan cookbook. The cookbook with have multiple page in which contain a full illustration of the meal and then an informal, relaxed, quirky ingredients list. For all intentend purposes I will not be giving a step-by-step on actually making the product because it's self explanatory (although there's a possibility I will be very shortly describing the over all process but nothing indepth). Reasoning behind that is to keep everything short, sweet and tied in with the whole concept of it being a quick, simple and cheap way for students to eat cruelty free.
To actually know what I'm drawing I'm doing a mix between my own dishes and I will be creating or pre-using a thead off of the site "what fat vegans eat" so that I'm not limited for what dishes I place in the book (especially considering I eat many of the same meals each week. I suck at variation.)
The Research
Kid Acne
The way I'm going to incorporate an inspiration through kid acne, is that I'm going to create a large posted at the end of the cook book to be placed above and mounted during the show. I'm ado going to be using the way he works as inspiration- the flat, almost wood printed look of his work. The way he leaves gaps between the block colour is interesting and something I would like to explore.
Katie Scott
The inspiration coming from Katie Scott is less of my usual interpretation. This time I'll be using her way of working - the method through scanning in and producing a finished, absolutely crisp piece of work via photoshop. This way I can get the colours either exact or muted (since I'm going to be looking into the idea of sample art which is also knowingly a big inspiration for Katie Scotts work.) My earlier experimentations have definitely inspired this way of working since prior works have become extremely stronger in my opinion, than hand drawn and it's a much more professional way of working. I really love the way you can edit any mistakes without having to re-do a piece 30 times over.
Katie Wilson
Wilson will inspire and has previously, inspired me to do repeat patterns. The idea is to apply the repeat patterns to a detachable meal planner in the centre of the cook book and also the idea of using a repeat pattern to show via a podium in the show. This will add a very quirky, unique touch and could be a big selling point and eye catching statement for the individuals exploring the show at the time.
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