FINAL SHORT STORY

 Here is my final short story layout!

Professor Mata really enjoyed my visual style and was glad I was able to figure out how I want to illustrate. She had only two comments and that was she wanted me to adjust the position of where my name is in relation to the title and work on the background of the Dancing Dogs. I made those adjustments and updated the InDesign file I was finished.

Final Size: 7 x 7" with a 1/4" bleed CMYK 

Extra Page

Back and Cover Pages

Copywrite and Title Page

End Pages

While I'm not sure if I will print this project out in a material form, I am so proud of myself for working through this project. I had a rough start at first as I struggled with trying to find a visual style, but I worked through each scene and found a way to illustrate. Even though my short story doesn't have a set narrative, I chose more of a visual list so I had more freedom to explore how I want to illustrate. 

This class and more specifically this project really opened up my eyes to illustration and I can't wait to continue to explore what I can create 💛😊

WEEK SIXTEEN - A

Here is what I have so far.

I brought the spreads I created in Adobe Fresco into Adobe InDesign and made sure everything had a 1/4" bleed around all sides. I had to make some minor adjustments to the layouts of the different spreads as some of the elements and text was too close to the edge. I decided not to add page numbers because there isn't much of a narrative to the book so nothing needs to be in a particular order. 

Professor Mata is working on giving us all feedback so I'm going to wait to see what she says then make adjustments from there.

Extra Page

Back and Cover Pages

Copywrite and Title Page

End Pages

WEEK FIFTEEN - B

 Thankfully, I made the realization on Tuesday night that each spread counts as two pages... so I have completed 12 pages. I originally was only drawing one scene per page but moved to a spread to have more room to draw yet still thought I had to 10 full spreads. So on Tuesday, I had finished all of my spreads and I spent Wednesday and Thursday working on the cover page and end pages.

Here is what I submitted for my 90% progress:

Cover and Endpages

Spreads (in order)

I'm going to continue adjusting some of the illustrations as well as add the page numbers. I've been drawing all of these out in Adobe Fresco on my iPad, but I'm going to do the page numbers on the computer so I can try and keep them all in the same spot.