A2 Pages With Annotations

This is a moodboard for my research for books for children aged 5 to 11. All of these books are some of the top stories by the best children authors in 2015, also these books feature some of the best illustrators such as Quentin Blake, Tony Ross and many others who vary at age range for their work. I will be taking this forward by looking more in depth by selecting a few of the books and researching the illustrators of those books. The main influences are really just from either Amazon.com top children's books or on a Google search for again 'top children's books 2015'. 

Here is another of my moodboards. This board is more based on illustrators rather than authors too. this board features some of my all time favourite books such as; The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe, Tracy Beaker stories, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The witches and many other illustrations from more children's books. As Roald Dahl is one of my favourite authors, I will be moving on to look more in detail at the illustrator for most if not all of his book; Quentin Blake. I will try to re-create some of my favourite illustrations from a few of my favourite novels.    

This sheets is a critical study of some of Quentin Blake's work. The large square is based from the novel of Matilda, which he illustrated. The other square is of the chocolate factory from Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I'm not 100% sure about which book the girls with the funny hair are from but I really like how they turned out. for all of these critical studies I used both ink and water colour paints to try to re-create Quentin Blake's work. I really like how I mixed things up a bit with the Matilda study as I added more images I designed of my own to create what she could be thinking about in her own little world.     

On this I looked at Tony Ross. I chosen him as when I was doing research at my dad's house I asked my brother what books he remembers reading when he was in primary school. he said that the David Walliams children's book collection were the ones he remembers the most. When I looked more in detail at this collection of books, I noticed that there were two illustrator; Quentin Blake and Tony Ross. So this is the reason why I chose to pick these two for my critical studies. The types of media I used for this study were also ink and water colours. I also used wax crayon for the 'Horrid Henry' doodles on the photographs. 
  

This is my customer board. For this I imaged a customer to base my research and have a good idea of the kind of customers I am aiming my work at. So for my customer I made up a young boy called Leo, who is aged 7 and also has a younger sister called Lexi who is aged 3. They both live with their mum and dad in Barnsley. Leo is in year 3 at Shawlands Primary School, which is where he met his 5 best friends called; Tina, Max, Thomas, Hope & Timmy. His very best friend is Timmy who shares the same birthday with Leo; 1/1/2009. Leo has many favourite things he like, for example; 

• Favourite letter: F
• Favourite Book: The cat in the hat
• Favourite number: 38
• Favourite food: ham sandwiches

Leo also has an imaginary friend, a parrot called Trixie. Within Leo's home, his family share a rabbit called Snowball & a lizard called Toby. The things Leo likes are; bike riding, playing on the Xbox, maths, art and his biggest dream is... To become Iron Man one day. 

I am going to take all this information I have create about my customer to help me to design a library wall and 2 display boards in the library suitable for my customer Leo.  

 

 

This is another artist research sheet. on this sheet I explored two artists; Charles Roger Hargreaves & Lucy Cousins.
Charles Roger Hargreaves:

Charles Roger Hargreaves was the original creator of the Mr Men book collection. His first book was Mr Tickle. Charles has named himself as Roger Hargreaves as his pen name as the author of his books. Roger is the world's 3rd best selling author and his books have sold over one hundred million books world wide.
Lucy Cousins:

Lucy has been sharing her work with the world form her home in Hampshire with her husband and their four children. All in all, her books in total have sold over 31 million copies world wide. One of her most famous book's; "Za-Za's Baby Brother", won the National Art Illustration Award in 1997. She has also illustrated; "Hooray for Fish", " Doctor Masiy" along side other Masiy books, and also "Jazzy in the Jungle".

This sheet is my first design sheet. I have brought forward the idea and developed it from the Tony Ross research I have done in my sketchbook. The idea is basically paint the wall a 'happy yellow' (683 from wilko's) then take eight sheets of A3 paper and make 40cmX40cm squares with them. Once this has been completed the can have a boarder painted on using acrylic paints. After they have dried, they can be laminated. Once laminated they can be put up on the wall. All that's left to do then is to some dry wipe pens in a rectangular pot and Velcro them to the wall next to the sheets.  

 

This sheets is my second design sheet for the library wall. I have taken this from my research about Charles Roger Hargreaves, the author and illustrator of the Mr Men & Little Miss book series from 1971 to 1988, when he died. My designs are just a white background and painted character and works that relate to the name of each character on the wall. The writing will be on black A2 paper and the letters will be printed off on to A4 with full colours and laminated to give it a professional finish.   

This is my third and final design for the library wall. I have based this design on my personal favourite book, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe written by C.S. Lewis and illustrated by Pauline Baynes. As I have always loved this book since my nannan first read it to me when I was 3, I have kept the same copy of the book so I could always enjoy the story and now I can read it to my own child. This design will; just like the Mr Men design, be just paint on the wall.   

This is a design for the KS1 display board, inspired by the same author and illustrator as for one of my designs for the library wall; Charles Roger Hargreaves. The Mr Men books have been another personal favourite book of mine since I was little so this is why I chose to base it on both parts of my designs. The Mr Men, Little Miss & the words in the design will all be either printed off onto A3 and laminated or painted and laminated. The boarder will be just printed off by not laminated.     

This is just a simple design for the KS1 display board based on a book which can only been founded in my moodboard research. It about a book called "You Read To Me, I'll Read To You". These are a series of books which hold very short stories in them. They are written by Mary Ann Hoberman and illustrated by Michael Emberley. All the images on this design will be drawn on A2 and painted using water colour paints then laminated. The numbers and the title will be written on the black paper background with coloured pencils.   

 

This design is for the KS2 display board. As you can see but the illustrations, its based on the works from Quentin Blake. The Matilda, the BFG, the speech bubbles and the thought bubbles, and also the balloons will be painted onto A2 paper using water coloured paints, then laminated. Once this has been done the y will go onto a red tissue paper background.         

 This design is again based on the book from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I have stuck with this design as I really love this book. The background are illustrations from the book itself, I will make them by printing them on A3 paper in section so the fit on the board. The world will be again printed on A3 paper or painted on A3 paper then laminated and stuck on the background with staples or blue-tack.

Lucy Cousins:
The KS1 design is based on my research I did about Lucy Cousins. She illustrated children’s book such as; Za-Za’s Baby Brother, Doctor Maisy and also Jazzy in the jungle. All of the images are from her books she has illustrated. The background is paper painted with water colours just like the images. This is how they will be painted but just drawn on A2 paper.  
Nick Sharratt:
This final design is about the work of Nick Sharratt, the illustrator of Jacqueline Wilson’s books. I have taken these illustrations from a leaflet I got when I visited an exhibition about his work at the Civic in Barnsley. I will draw them on to A2 sheets and then use water colour paints for the colour. I really like the Nick Sharratt design with the books with numbers in them. This will be made by drawing a book on A4 and photocopying it 9 more times to get the 10 books for around the edge. Then once the books have been printed they can be mounted on to coloured paper to make it seem like there are covers on the books not just white. After the numbers have been written on the books with coloured pens they can be laminated.