First ideas were based on the days of the weeks in songs on you tube, but didn't find them very inspiring. Another idea was to make small illustrations for a magazine, about the days of the week on the 5:2 diet. I started sketching ideas with a pig character.
Reflecting on this, I thought I preferred making illustrations for children.
The Brief: the title is
Seven days.
I chose to design illustrations that would be used online or in a brochure to schools, as a teaching aid. The illustrations would be about the days of the week, and show nursery rhymes associated with the first sound of the day of the week. For instance the sound "m" of 'Monday' would be associated with 'Mary had a little lamb', or 'Mary, Mary, quite contrary'.
The illustrations could be used for printing in a book, after consulting with a sample of schools. I also thought of making it possible for the designs to be used for making cross stitch, but since I have started working on this assignment, I haven't had the possibility to consult friends who do cross stitch and check if this is at all possible.
Here are my roughs:
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| Sunday |
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| Saturday |
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| Tuesday |
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| Wednesday |
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| Thursday. The raindrops added in pencil, haven't scanned! |
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| Friday |
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| Monday |
The images I worked on were square. After uploading my pictures I have noticed that the quality has gone down and that they have been slightly changed, this is due to my scanner. There is also a large white margin around each picture.
This is an example of the design for Monday, 'Mary, Mary, quite contrary', painted in colours (gouache).
I was inspired by the children books of Antoon Krings with their bright colorful illustrations and painterly style.
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| Antoon Krings |
Sketchbook:
