i feel like this brief went really well for me in that i found different ways to work and i looked at illustration in a different light and stepped away from my comfort zone of figurative work.
looking at the final piece that i did, there are some things that i wish i would've had more time to develop or took more time in developing. that is the inside sleeves i love a lot, and i wish i had time to redo the whole book with this style of a border and pattern. however i do like the front cover that i did, but there is quite a lot of white space and if i were to do it again i think that i would make the title and pattern bigger so it filled more of the space. i do like the simplicity of the design that i did, so i don't think i would've added more to what i did, just change the size. this would've been easy if i'd have done it digitally, however i liked the handmade feel of it and i think if i would've done it digital i wouldn't have got the same effects that i wanted.
i think stepping away from figurative work has been beneficial to me in that i'm growing as an illustrator and not just a doodler. i have also found that i really like to play around with fonts as well as pattern, and in the future projects i would hope to be able to play with fonts a bit more.
so to reiterate, if i were to do this brief again, i would be more conscious of the space on the front cover and to make sure to fill the space i'm given, and i would've liked to have played around with more designs that are similar to the ones on the inside sleeve on my final piece.
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