BABIES final work

The page size of this book is 28cm x 30cm and it is designed to be a board book.

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Click here to download a pdf of the dummy.

Click here to download the final fold-out page.

BABIES dummy books

Oldest to newest.

Rough dummy thinking about a continuous landscape concertina book. Giant and baby.

A new dummy trying out bolder compositions and thinking about the depth behind the page surface.

No longer a concertina book, just thinking about a giant baby in various situations. With text.

BABIES development

Work is organised oldest to newest. Click on images to see them larger

Sketchbook work after the first tutorial on 23rd September:

Ink drawings on large sheets of lining paper, roughly A1:

Trying out ink layers with separate drawn lines/smudges. Also in charcoal. Assembled in Photoshop.

Drawing Sisi session 1 , 9 months old

Weeks 5 and 6

Drawing Sisi, session 2

Sketchbook:

Roughs/sketchbook

Finding the right baby for the final artwork:

Using real mud to make mud textures

Clouds for the ‘Giant Baby’s Tasting’ spread

Adding eyebrows and adjusting eyes:

Trying out different sorts of mud textures

Backgrounds:

Developing horse spread:

Play - BABIES

A ‘secret’ sketchbook that I pretended to myself I wasn’t going to show anyone. Exploring ideas of a baby in a prehistoric setting.