No Staples Booklet - Printed Booklet

Final Printed Product

This is the final product of my No Staples Booklet, once I'd completed everything that I wanted too I then printed out my booklet and this was out the outcome. Even though the positioning of the guide lines in photoshop were  little off or my folding of the booklet was a little off the first page still looks good from what i expected it to look like. Even though the image for this doesn't depict the proper colours that you can see with the original product which is printed out, it still show the mount of detail in which i added to each canine.

This is the first double page spread of my no staples booklet and this page shows some of the dogs I drew along with canine memorabilia. Based on the fact that only two colours were allowed and then i figured out that since black is on the grey scale I could use a lot of grey shades too. This gave a nice variety between both the canine and the memorabilia.

 After thinking about which animals I'd make grey and which I'd make blue, I decided on the fact that any dog which would be a hue other than what would be on the grey scale would be blue, and any others would be grey, this also helped me show the different markings and breeds of each animal. Adding grey shades and white tints to the husky design allowed me to properly convey it's markings, on the other hand on the Golden Retriever I used a dark blue hue in order to try and show how this specific breed would be a golden colour.

Just like on my page earlier I made sure that all the breeds of dogs which could naturally have a grey hue to their pelt, I made the grey, and the others a blue. After making all the dogs I filled in the spaces with more memorabilia, which made the page look more fun and interesting. 

This is the back page of my No staples booklet which could almost be the front page, I specifically wrote " The art of dogs " on the back page in order to give the feel that the page was like a blurb, and would specify what the booklet would, and of course, that is an little book filled with dogs. 

When you opened the booklet you'd find a large poster style drawings. I loved making this and even though I copied the Border Collie sketch on the inside cover from my other page, this still looked amazing when I printed it out. After finishing everything I added my signature / water mark at the bottom of my piece of work.

No Staples booklet - Final designs

Final Designs

This is the final design of my first page of my no staples booklet. I'm extremely pleased with the result I obtained from this little book. After completing every sketch, colouring it and then adding all the detail, this page took me about seven hours to complete, most of which was in my free time. All the colour in this, of course was referenced from the first base colour of the whole booklet, and from this I changed the hue and made it darker or lighter for each amount of detail I was adding onto each hound and object which I drew.

This is the second page of my no staples booklet, which contained one large sketch of a Border Collie and then the blurb once more which is " The Art Of Dogs. ". Even though I copied the image of the Border Collie from the first page, I knew that this was one of my favourite pieces, and the colours blended beautifully. Even though I couldn't use a plum hue for inside the collie's mouth, instead of grey I thought it'd be a nice idea to make it blue instead, to match the colour pallet of the rest of my work. This head shot of the Collie fit perfectly onto the page which filled up the negative space which would have been left if I only put the title on the page. All together the end result of both pages turned out perfectly, and you could clearly see the amount of detail on each sketch once zoomed out.

After both sides were done, I grouped them together and then printed out the double sided piece of work.

No Staples Booklet - Work In Progress

Work In Progress

This is the first screenshot of my no staples booklet. After finishing the pencil sketches I scanned each page into my laptop and then opened them both in photoshop. By pressing Ctrl + L, photoshop opened up the levels panel, and I was able to remove the white background but also enhance the lines colour, which were a faint grey since it was in my sketch book and make them a thick black colour.

after doing this i selected the lasso tool and started to carefully edge around the sketches i wanted and then place them onto my proper no staples template in the positions i wanted them.

Whilst doing this I tried to make sure that their wasn't a lot of empty space, and that meant trying to fill the page effectively, but not make it over crowded and make the piece of work look messy. Making sure that each new sketch was on a different layer, so that if I wanted to change anything for one sketch the rest wouldn't be altered. 

On this page I then started to put the rest of my images and then make sure they were in the right position I started to colour in each dog and dog memorabilia in with the most amount of detail I could possibly add. I did all this on different layers, and then once I'd finished I started to colour on different layers, this meant that if i wanted to change the outline or change the colouring I could.

I started to completely colour each part in piece by piece and then add in the detail on yet again another layer which was placed over the top of the basic blue or grey colour and then merged down so to minimize the amount of layers I'd have with the finished product and to make sure that none of the layers would get mixed up, and get hidden by the base colours while I was changing each sketch.

Once I'd spent time creating base layers of colour and then adding different sections of black and white detail, and merging them and creating a nice effect with the smudge tool, I started to group all my coloured layers so that they wouldn't get mixed up with the outline of each sketch.
Each little sketch took me on average thirty minutes each to complete with the base colours and detail combined.

I'd decided that when colouring in the dog sketches which either had their mouth open or their eyes wide open so that we could see them properly, since i couldn't colour in the mouth with a plum hue or make the eyes brown / green I changed all the grey colours to a light blue, this in the end gave a lovely effect on each sketch and it kept to the brief that was given at the start of the task. 

This is what the first completed side looks like, with all the colour and detail added to each little sketch. Once everything had been coloured I did change the position of some of the dogs, trying to space out where the grey colours were and where the blue coloured where, aiming not to get clumps of each one.

On my centre page I decided that instead of just putting  picture of a dog or some memorabilia I would also put the title that was on the back of the other page. I liked the idea that this could be used on my inside over and not just the outside back page. 

For the second page of my booklet I decided that I'd select one of my already made drawings and enlarge it to add more effect. I chose the Border collie because when it's enlarged it still had the effect I wanted it too, and it also fit very well under my writing " The Art Of Dogs ".

No Staples Booklet - Sketchbook Pages

Initial Sketchbook Pages

This is my first initial sketchbook page. It took me a while to figure out what types of dogs I was going to draw and then I started to lightly sketch out each 'base' drawing. By starting with basic shapes such as circles and cubes I created the base lines of each drawing. From each of these weirdly shaped figures I started to add in more detail and start creating individual lines for each creature. By sketching the nose of each animal first and then the muzzle, moving onto the rest of the face, I'd created ten sketches of different breeds of dogs, in different position and different poses.

After this I went over each pencil sketch with a fine liners to get a darker and more precise line to each drawing. This would allow me to scan in the image with a resolution of about 72, and have a decent scan without fuzzy lines when I zoom in on each image to colour.

 This is my second initial sketchbook page. After my first page I though that having everything which resembled a dog would be bland and boring, therefore I drew some dog memorabilia, such a balls, collars, bones, and leads. I also a separate nose and paw on this page, which would fit between the images of each dog. Like the first page, I started with basic shapes for my base sketch which I then turned into more detailed sketches and then once perfected my sketches, I also went over these images with a fine liner for a more crisp line.

All together each page took me about two hours to draw, all being completely in my own time.

For this sketchbook page I didn't know which type of brush or pen I wanted to use therefore I tested five different types of brushes and pens in order to figure out which one I would go over my lines with in my first sketchbook page and my second one. For these images I used a pencil, fine liner, squirrel hair ink brush, biro and a calligraphy pen. Even though the last image isn't labelled as a calligraphy pen, it is what I used to get that effect. After debating which one I wanted to use I realized that a fine liner got the effect I wanted and wouldn't distort when i zoomed into the outline of the image whilst colouring 

No Staples Book - Research

Research

Before I started creating my no staples booklet I firstly went on Pinterest and did some research. This research was on the different breeds of dogs and from this research I got an idea of what types of dogs I'd be trying to draw and how I'd be able to convey their markings and features with only one colour allowed. I chose the most popular dogs that I could think of, ranging from Husky's, Dalmatians, Golden Retrievers, Great Danes and Border Collie's. Trying to figure out which dogs would be best to draw with the limited colour was harder than I thought it would be, and from this difficulty I chose different breeds of dogs which has very distinguishable markings or body shapes. 

This is another page in which I was researching different breeds of dogs. From the difficulty with the limited colours I decided that in order to convey the sketches and drawings of dogs properly I would need to choose dogs which had distinct markings, such as spots on a dalmatian, or body shape and size which, such as a pug, or chihuahua. Because of this I decided to choose noticeable dogs, and then figure out which colour I'd be using 

This is another page on my Pinterest blog which contains more research for my no staples booklet. After choosing a lot of  small similar dogs I thought that it'd be interesting to add some larger dogs, such as Great Danes, and then I also looked at some pictures of wolves, even though I didn't draw any wolves into my work I did contain an sketch of a Great Dane.

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Business Card - Final Product

Final Product

This is the back cover of my final product, which was my business cards. I followed my first design exactly and then it came out and looks amazing. I think the basic design of only having black and white would be simple, but it could also be quite complex. For this I thought that if I included multiple different colours then the business card would get crowded.

This is the front cover of my business cards, as followed in my draft I made the Henshaw Design Co. on the front. Once again I didn't want to add any colour since if I did it would have made the card too chaotic and look less professional.

Business Card - Work In Progress

For my business card I've followed my sketched design and from this I've started to create my Photoshop version. Finding a suitable font on DaFont to match the design I'd created in my pencil sketch I've faded parts of the font away to reflect my original design. Slightly turning the text so that it's on a diagonal, i've then cropped the edges of the font away so that it fits within the guide-lines. 

After making the rest of the front side and then cropping the rest of the text so that it fit within the guide-lines set, I copied the first design and moved it across to each other box, so that I had in total six copies.

Moving onto the other side of my design, I found a paint splatter brush for Photoshop and then placed it in the top left corner to match my pencil sketch. After doing such I then started to add the text with it's desired effect. I then moved to the bottom and added the contact social media buttons, along with the arrow which points to the large UK font. 

Doing the same as before I cropped any parts which needed it and then added it then copied and pasted the design into the remaining five guide-line slots.

Business Card - Sketches

These are photos of the initial sketches of what my business card will be designed to look like.

Business Card - Research

Research

I've started my research for my business card on Pinterest. I created a new board where by I could pin interesting business existing card design I liked, therefore allowing me to revert back to my idea's and so's not to lose them.

I spent about an hour searching for different and alternative card designs which graphics designers have used and from this I started to create my two main designs.

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