Over the past few weeks, I've been working on further ideas of how I can make my "#1 Explorer" tactile book more dimensional. Looking at my older designs, I've decided that the colours particularly were missing something. I really like the rustic effect of earthy watercolour pencils, I've decided to combine the use of these watercolour pencils with natural colours (as learnt from Gyles' outdoors workshop), and so I decided to experiment with purple violets, yellow dandelions and grass - which turned out successfully and is an idea I look to keeping until my final designs.
I wasn't fully confident with my tick-the-box idea for the final page. This felt too formal for what I was aiming for, and so, I decided to re-design it (and part of the front cover) by beginning the book (front cover) with a big, messy, muddy hand-print, and on the back cover I've designed a dotted-line hand-print, so to encourage the children to get messy and make their own hand-print - this would also turn into a little 'confirmation' that they'd successfully become a #1 Explorer, as they can then rip off the back cover of the book and it becomes a certificate. This gives the children incentive to get comfortable with their natural environment - while not giving them specific rules and guidelines - actively encouraging them to get messy and have fun with their surroundings by setting an example.
My designs as they currently stand:
the Peer Assessment for this module has given me an insight into the progress of my peers and gave me some constructive criticism and direction of where I can improve my work so far.
I wasn't fully confident with my tick-the-box idea for the final page. This felt too formal for what I was aiming for, and so, I decided to re-design it (and part of the front cover) by beginning the book (front cover) with a big, messy, muddy hand-print, and on the back cover I've designed a dotted-line hand-print, so to encourage the children to get messy and make their own hand-print - this would also turn into a little 'confirmation' that they'd successfully become a #1 Explorer, as they can then rip off the back cover of the book and it becomes a certificate. This gives the children incentive to get comfortable with their natural environment - while not giving them specific rules and guidelines - actively encouraging them to get messy and have fun with their surroundings by setting an example.
My designs as they currently stand:
Current areas of Achievement:
> Good development of final concept.
> Inspired by other children's books already out there.
Current areas for development and improvement:
> Further work into report, research and art style.
> May need to show more evidence of the idea generation.
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