AS Graphics Unit 2: Final Piece

Firstly I drew out my final design in pencil, and then once I was happy with it I went over the outlines in fine liner, and rubbed out the pencil marks.

Using the light box, I placed another piece of paper over the top of the final layout piece, so that the outlines showed through the top piece of paper. I painted within the outlines using watercolour.

I placed the outlined piece into photoshop, and edited it to be threshold (black and white only).

I then cropped the piece to be the correct size.

Using the magic wand tool, I selected the white and deleted.

This allows the coloured painting to show through, with the black outlines sitting on top.

At this point I added guidelines to help with the positioning of certain features later in the process. I then started editing the colours, so I turned off the black outlines, and starting with the sky. I selected the area I wanted to edit using the quick selection tool, and I edited the hue, saturation, lightness (command U). In this picture is shows my next colour edit of the bottom right flower.

Then I edited the levels of the lair to encourage more contrast.

I also edited the hue, saturation and lightness of the hair.

... I then edited the tower...

I did this process until I was happy with the final colours.

I then printed this piece, and using the light box, I drew the type on a separate piece of paper and fitted it around the design. I did one with fill so I could edit the colours.

I also copied the same font, but only the outline so the font could have a black outline like the actual design.

I placed both images into photoshop and edited them to be threshold, and deleted the white. I placed them on top of each other. I edited the colours of the filled type (magic wand, shift + backspace). I picked the colours from the design and made them analogous.

For the flap about the Brothers Grimm, I added a photo from a secondary source, but I wanted to add my own touch. Using outlines of the flowers, I duplicated them and placed them around the photo.

I then duplicated the coloured part of the flower, and made it the same size and rotation to fit the black outline. Using (command U) I edited the colour.

I did this to the other flowers...

Until it was competed.

I then placed this in the top corner, on the flap.

I then added the heading of the flaps and the authors title using the font 'Elcsa'.

Then I added the quotes and blurb to the back cover using different alignments. I used the pen tool to create the bottom text box to work around the design. I used the font 'Little Days Alt'.