Final piece: creation process

Here is the process of how my final piece was created.

This is my scanned in drawing as I added a brightness and contrast level.

Curves added

Levels and curves added

Levels edited again

Starting to add text, I played around with colours and placements before I decided on where I would put it.

Copying and pasting feathers to create book flaps

The levels and exposure were edited

Creating the spine

I created my own logo for my own book publishing company

Levels and curves edited

Adding the logo to the spine

Adding the logo to the back of the book. I edited the levels of the blurb, as well as brightness and curves.

I added decorative lines to "trap" the text of the blurb

Added on the bottom

On one of the book flaps, I included information about the author... Me!

Starting to put everything together

Colour schemes

I tried and tested four different colour schemes here to see which would look best.

I drew out my design four times 

I began creating a palette for my analogus colour scheme

 

Finished piece

Final draft

Here is the final draft. It shows how I planned out the design roughly in pencil, and I included the spine and book flaps so that I knew how they would look when I created them. This was the draft I used throughout creating my piece, as I constantly referred to using it as my design. 

Emulation

Here, I drew my outline first, and added watercolours and oil pastel as my base colours.

Adding colouring pencil

Here I have added paints and more colouring pencil

Adding acrylics

I used oil pastel on the crown

I used colouring pencil on the flowers

Ink wash on the background 

Editing levels

Editing curves

Changing the vibrance

Increasing the saturation

Editing the lightness 

Finished piece

For this piece, I created an emulation of my work in the style of Marjolein Calijouw, using the same techniques as I learnt when I created an artist copy of one of her piece, 'Bird Braid.'

The Raven Princess: storyboard/book plan

Here is the storyboard plan of the book, and you can see which image will be on each page, and how the book will be made.

Marjolein Caljouw- "Bird Braid" copy

"Bird Braid"- by Marjolein Caljouw. I love her work, and decided to copy this image.

Basic outline

Beginning to add details

I then started to add paint

Basic colours put down 

I then started to add oil pastel and pencil

Finished, with edited levels in photoshop 

Artist copy

Image that I copied: Taken from 'Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg' by Gail Carson Levine. It is illustrated by David Christiana.

My copy of the image above

Edited in photoshop 

I followed this process to create my image, and added pencil at the end to add needed detail.