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Here is the finished zine. I’m really pleased with the result and it looks better than i imagined it would as a finished piece. If i was to do this project again, i think i would be more realistic at the beginning about what i wanted to create, and think of a theme to stick to a lot sooner. I want to continue to add to it as a personal project and eventually create a book out of it.

This page was slightly different as i wanted to focus on a different aspect of architecture such as doorways, such as the doorway to the ‘living library’. only a small amount was drawn by hand, and a small amount of pink watercolour. The layer of pink dots will be included on a page of tracing paper, which i might include a few of to explore different depths and layers.

This is my favourite page so far as i think it would work really nicely as a repeated pattern. It took a while to construct this piece as there were so many different layers and i tried to create this offset look with the different drawn layers.

Third double page spread -

this was a more time consuming drawing as its so detailed and accurate. I used 0.2mm black fine liner for the initial drawing and it took about 3 hours to an a3 scale.

Second page spread - re using the images from the first a1 drawing i did as i think they will work well as part of a collective. I’ve also put some texture into the pages with ink splats and dry brushes on photoshop.

The progress of the first double page spread.

i did the first drawing by hand on cartridge paper and the second on tracing paper. I started thinking from a design point of view about how i want the zine to look, so i started doing some quicker drawings with heavier weight of line of non realistic buildings, from my head. The two hands in the left hand corner were meant to represent my hands and that this is the world i’m creating. I’m not sure that message is visually communicated now that i see the finished version but i like how it looks and think it fits well as part of the image.

When the zine is finished i would like to print it on the riso printer, which is a faster and more efficient way of screen printing in the design industry, for things like newspapers and magazines. This printer only prints one colour at a time, and every time the paper is fed back through, the next layer is slightly offset, which is an aesthetic i really like. I think some of the textures i have created here will print nicely.

Back to more traditional methods - watercolour on cartridge paper. I much prefer this result and want to use these pages as my front and back covers. I think its going to contrast nicely with what is inside the zine, and i can edit ‘The Living Library’ type onto it later on.

Using the filter gallery in Photoshop with the charcoal filter. I quite like the result because it looks like an old book cover, but it won't match the aesthetic I'm trying to aim for i don't think.

Trying to create a front page for my zine - the left image is the initial drawing and the right image is where i re worked it on photoshop by repeating the same drawings in different sizes. I like the design of the stacks of books covering the whole page for the front cover but i don't know if i like the black line drawing in this instance, just because i know there will be a lot of that inside the zine.

I’ve tried to re work the last drawing i did without the colour and by changing the character. It works a lot more now but i want to focus more on intricate and detailed architecture.

I think the final outcome of my project will be a mini zine about ‘the living library’ where i can explore a few different drawing styles, rather than trying to include everything in one piece.

Matt Collishaw - Walsall Exhibition

Going to the exhibition today was definitley an eye opening experience for me as i didn't initially think the trip would influence my thought process that much. However as soon as i walked into the room i immediatley felt really intimidated by the work. Partly because of the vast size they were printed onto, but also because standing in front of one of these pieces made me feel like i was staring into a black hole in the wall rather than looking at a dark image on a wall. The scale of the work was quite unusual since it allowed the viewer to see the subject on a scale and in a form that you wouldn't normally look at it on. I loved the vibrancy of the colour in the wings of the moths, and how the warmth in the colours contrasts with the fact the subject of the image is actually to do with death and disintegration. The woman leading the tour said that he used layers of several different scans to make up each picture rather than just one scan.

Alongside these images, encased in glass at the centre points of the room were sculptures of flowers growing from polluted soil, and the petals had boils and sores growing on them as if they were infected. These pieces explored the same themes as the moth images, but almost in the opposite way, as Collishaw took the flowers as something beautiful and showed them dying from the ground they're growing in, whereas the moths are the dead aspect but he created something beautiful out of them.

There were also some more obvious representations of ‘another world’ in some other pieces in his exhibition, for example one called ‘coaching fairies’ where fantasy elements were edited into photographs of reality.

Here i’ve created another rough image which illustrates the world of the ‘living library’ - what i have decided to call it. I could see what i was trying to draw in my head before i did it, but i had difficulties trying to construct a whole image just from my mind. I like the composition much more in this piece, and the arrangement of the books and how the buildings are constructed remind me of the scene in Alice in Wonderland where she falls down the rabbit hole and random objects fall with her, now that I'm reviewing it. I tried using colour on this image unlike the last one, and a different character design. I also used the dry media brushes on photoshop to give different textures, but looking at the outcome i think i over used them and that there is still something missing from the image. I still haven't properly been able to show how i want this world to look and I'm unsure how to go about it, so i think i need to decide what the final piece will take form as and experiment with some more medias.

These are the cropped versions including the more successful parts of the drawing. I think i can use these to inform the rest of my work.

This is the scanned version of the A1 drawing. it took about 6 hours to draw the whole thing with black fine liner pens. I didn't look at any pictures for reference, i just drew completely from my head to get an idea on paper of what the aesthetic of this world might resemble. I don't think the drawing works as a whole image as i don't really like how the composition turned out, but i think sections of the image work as individual drawings. The characters were inspired by the term ‘bookworm’ with their worm like hats with reading lights on the end. In my head i really liked the idea that the inhabitants would be reading in all areas of the image, for example some of them are lying on the roof or sitting between books in the buildings. I kept the image as a line drawing without colour because i didn’t find any colour scheme appropriate, every combination was either too distracting or didn't work. i tried to add different weights to the lines in the different structures, for instance the buildings closer are drawn with a thicker line than the ones further away, to try and add more depth to the image.

Here i re drew the last drawing in pencil and used a scalpel to create a delicate paper cut version. It was a successful experiment but time consuming, and I'm not sure wether its still clear that the building is built out of books or not...

After thinking about how Coron’s work can inspire my project, i decided to create ‘another world’ by illustrating a city built out of books. I chose to do this because architecture is one of my favourite things to draw, and i also love to read. Also I've been thinking about new interesting styles of drawing architecture in, so constructing it purely out of books will be interesting. In this image I've demonstrated how i intend to do this, by drawing from reference of an image of the eiffel tower on google. I used one of my old map drawings in the background because i thought it would add to the level of intricacy and make the image appear more complex.

I could also think about bringing my drawings into 3D and making buildings out of actual books, or for instance wooden blocks that are drawn on to look like books. I spoke about this idea with my tutor today and she showed me a music video where the set was creatively built out of cardboard boxes. Next, i want to draw an A1 piece including inhabitants of this world I'm creating as well as architecture.

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