#bethillustration

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So, my idea has evolved into the concept of having the book be a narrative of a journey to the bottom of a rabbit warren from the top, from the point of view of a rabbit. To do this well, I've thought back to a previous workshop where I cut holes in folded paper to depict reflections in an interesting way, and I think I can apply this to the aforementioned narrative. This is through the use apertures that steadily decrease in size and a colour palette that gets darker the deeper you descend. As a result, I've made a prototype book that tests this idea. It's a 1 page folded book. I like how the use of apertures allows me to select what details I want the reader to see as they progress through the book and also how the first page of every spread shows an aperture that gradually becomes smaller the further through the reader goes, giving them a reminder of how far they've 'travelled'. Because of this, I'm going to proceed with apertures in mind.

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Book binding. I've made sure I remembered how to make the 1 page booklets as, even though I understand that their main use is for publications that use screen printing (as only one side of the paper is used), I also think that they'll be useful as quick prototypes. Nevertheless, I now understand far more about book binding than I did beforehand.

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The replica, before the clay has dried, let alone painted. I'm relatively happy with my recreation of the digging marks found on the sides of a rabbit burrow.

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I'm aware that, because it was wet and cold the day I went to Mousehold Heath, I couldn't do any sketches on location. However, I know how valuable first hand sketches can be in creating a lifelike, dynamic image. Therefore, I've used my previous sketches to draw up a plan to make a rabbit burrow replica in clay which I can then work off of as a first hand source.

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Using the shapes that become apparent when looking at my own sources and the footage to get an idea of what the inside of a rabbit burrow looks like.

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Visualising the rabbit burrow.

https://youtu.be/qkiqTmvgdx8 This is one of the videos I used to help myself map out what the inside of a rabbit burrow looks like in my mind and on paper.

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New Meanings, New Connections-Workshop Manipulating the original text from a novel based on a limited number of words in said text. This workshop seemed focuses on spontaneity so a lot of what I did was for the sake of experimentation. However, I did repeat some of the techniques I used in earlier iterations in ways I thought they'd be more effective as a sort of development for my imagery. Since I was so happy with how these images turned out, perhaps the best course of action in my project could be to just create as many images relating to rabbit burrows as possible, and to see how my ideas merge together from there.

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I've decided to focus my research on rabbit burrows and what they look like inside. Therefore, the book will be a semi-informative publication about the strangeness of discovery about a subterranean environment that you will never enter. I've also decided to focus my research so I know definitively where to find sources, which is why I went to Mousehold Heath to try and find said sources. However, I'll have to take from secondary sources in order to find out the inner structure of a warren.