Front cover

For my front cover I didn't want to give away too much of what is inside of the book so that people would be interested to open it. I still wanted the cover to communicate what the subject of the book is so I decided to have a paint palette as the main image. I used water colour paint for the image then scanned it in, I decided to have the palette yellow as this colour continues through the book and I think this ties everything together nicely. I thought with the palette in the centre it gave the cover a nice composition and made it look striking. I also decided that I wanted to include big bold lettering for the title so it would be visible from far away, for this I used a hand drawn lettering style. I then added a little tag line at the top of the page to balance out the composition and finally added my name in a little black oval, I placed the name off centre to add a bit of movement throughout the image as this will guide the viewers eye around the page. When I had completed the image I still felt as though it needed something so I added a very faint texture in the background and this finished off the cover nicely. Overall I am happy with how the front cover came out because I think it looks very interesting and on trend.

End Pages

For the end pages i wanted to use a repeat pattern as thats what most end pages have on them. I wanted to make my pattern look really contemporary to fit in with the rest of the book so i opted for a simplistic pattern using long horizontal shapes. Another thing that I wanted to do was keep the same yellow that was used on the page headers, to keep the book looking uniform and professional. I think this worked out well in the end as the pattern looks stylish and contemporary, and the colour choice really ties the end pages in with the rest of the book. 

Fact Pages

I decided to keep all of the fact pages black and white so the book looks like if follows the same format throughout.  I also decided to have a mixture of hand made and digital typography to keep the pages looking professional. 

Profile Pages

Here are all of the profile pages for the artists that i have created so far. I kept the profile pictures in colour to give the reader a better idea of what the artist looked like. I kept all of the other drawings in black and white because I wanted the book to have a uniform look. I think this worked out well because i think if the whole book was it colour it might have looked a bit too much. 

Activity pages

I created activity pages that are related to all of the artists in the book. These pages will go in after the fact pages. 

Andy Warhol Research

I wanted to include a diverse group of artists in my book so I thought it would be good to put Andy Warhol in as he created pop art which is very different to all of the other art styles in the book. He also is known for drawing products rather than images that tell a story so I thought that would be interesting too. 

Born: August 6, 1928
Died: February 22, 1987
Movement: Pop Art

• Andy Warhol got banned from art club when he was in secondary school because he was better than all of the other students.
• Theres a 5 minute video of him eating hamburger on youtube.
• As well as creating art Andy Warhol owned a nightclub, produced music and had a TV show for MTV called Andy Warhol's 15 minutes. 
• Andy Warhol drew products rather than people so he had a lot of commercial jobs working for big companies. 
• His most famous and most recognisable piece of art work is probably the Campbell's Soup tin painting. 
• Andy Warhol's name was originally Andy Warhola but he dropped the 'A' when he became famous. 
• He was one of the leading pioneers in the pop art movement.
• He had a  nose job because he hated the way his nose looked. 
• Andy Warhol wore grey/silver wigs and eventually he died his hair the colour of his wigs. 
• he once got told he had a lazy eye so he decided to start wearing blacked out glasses with a pin hole in them to hide his eyes. 

Layout research

The second book that I looked at for some help with layouts was a book about printing called 'Print workshop.' I initially was drawn to it because the drawing style is very similar to mine. This book has very nice simplistic layouts and lovely illustrations. I liked on page in particular because it used the edge of the page really well. I thought I would keep this page in mind when planning my layouts. Here is the book cover and the page that I thought worked well.