Only recently starting the project I found that I had a number of images and ideas in my head and the only way I could really get those ideas out quickly was with thumbnails. Since starting this project I think I've began to realise how helpful in terms of composition and just being able to see my rough ideas thumbnails are.
The research I did for the project I found both very helpful and interesting to be honest, mainly the different examples of alphabet books. I wasn't entirely certain of what I wanted my page to look like, whether to have the "B is for" or have a rhyme or story to it so I started by looking at Edward Gory's alphabet book. Seeing a theme in the way he created his illustrations on the page with them being quite dark and having the rhythmic qualities and the humour I think it worked really well and in a way helped me broaden my ideas on how I wanted my book to be.
I also found Paul Thurby's work to be equally as helpful as in comparison to Mr Gory's, Thurby's book concentrates on the letter and somehow including an image either into the letter or around the page. His style of actually creating the images is a lot different also and his use of colour I think when combined make the images successful. By researching his work this has again given me a number of ideas and seeing the colour in his pieces I have decided to include it in my work hopefully.
Deciding that I was going to have a sort of variety of objects that began with B in my image I knew almost immediately that I wanted some sort of book/s. And again deciding on colour I used mainly markers, collage and fine liner to do the image on the left, however even though I decided to use colour I did still try a similar image in well, black and white.
Because I was focusing on colour I decided to do some research into pop art. Not being familiar with the style really I chose Roy Lichtenstein as guidance I guess. Knowing that there is a lot of colour in pop art and seeing how some pieces can be made to look realistic and some not I thought this genre might help with my ideas. Which it did.
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