OUIL405 Visual Narratives SB2 - A Book of...Visual Development continued/Production

This was the first digital run of the front page that I did. I really didn't like how this looked - the colour scheme was really flat and didn't really go together right and the linework looked really stiff and boring. The biggest problem I found with working digitally was that it it was very easy to make your work look really clinical and dull - but it was also a fine line between 'visually interesting' and 'really messy'. 

Here I tried to unify the colour scheme a little better by changing the saturation, but It still didn't really work all that great. I eventually scrapped this.  

At this point I tried out a colour scheme using a family of colours that were all really close to each other (In a similar manner to Luke Pearson) - which started to turn out a lot better! I still wasn't happy with the line work on the cup so I scrapped this version again and went on to do another, but I felt like it definitely started to go somewhere  

This was the third version I created, which is the version I eventually went on to use as a final. Whilst I preferred the colour scheme on this I thought it was a bit too saturated and the hue was slightly off so I fixed that. I think the bigger, bolder title for this looks much better as well.

I used the colour scheme for the two respective front covers to use on the back pages.

A lot of the problem I had with the interior was regards to how exactly I could make two sides - though subtly different, still have a similar sort of scheme without having to completely redo the whole page - considering I'd used both yellow and blue in side 1. What was pretty cool was that I could simply edit the pre-existing line work to make them look a lot more haggard - the colour scheme was slightly more of a difficult affair. The solution was somewhat accidental but not only saved me time, kept consistency without having to pick an entirely different colour scheme manually - I toggled with the hue and saturation until I got something slightly duller, but still colourful enough to work in cohesion with the pages on the first side.

This method of work was not only efficient, it meant that I could ensure that the pages remained at a constant level of refinement throughout, as opposed to having some pages looking ~extra nice~ and others looking a bit more rushed. 

The choice to leave the figures white came again from experimentation. I had begun to colour in and add shadows and highlights to the characters, but I found they ended up sinking into to background and not really standing out much - the lines were detailed enough to make them work without any colour, so I eventually ended up choosing to leave it out for all of them. I think it ended up working very well.