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| This is my copy of a Flanimal. I drew it freehand from the original book and then colored it in using watercolor. |
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| For this artist copy I drew out the outline of Andy Martin's original clay/plastercine model. Then I edited the colors in Photoshop. |
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E.H Shepard
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My Copy - Black Biro Pen.
I created this artist copy before finally deciding on my animal/monster theme. I also liked the way that the artist E.H. Shepard hand-draws delicate and very detailed illustrations in his books. Using his method I made my own copy using black biro pen.
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Above is my copy of another Flanimal. I drew out the outline of the character and then edited the coloring in photo-shop.
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Case Study
My case study is on the Flanimal book series written by Ricky Gervais and Illustrated by Rob Steen. The narrative of the book is to be a guide explaining everything about fictional Flanimal characters and it's kingdom. It is a children's book containing a guide of images of Flanimals. Flanimals are creature/Alien/Monsters. Beneath this is a small description describing that certain Flanimal. For example what it likes and does. This is a theme throughout the book and it's series. Some of the characters are a main feature in the book series. For example the Puddolflaj, the Grundit & the Clunge Ambler can be found at least one on every book.
The first thing that drew me to the book is the bold color used. I also like how it isn't like an useral children's book but instead more of a guide on the non-fictional characters inspired by the writer Ricky Gervais. It makes me turn the page and read on to see other designs of characters/Flanimals have been created. Another thing I like is that the book has been split up into chapters.
To create this book, illustrator Rob Steen would of hand/line drawn the characters using the rough drawings from Ricky Gervais as inspiration and a guide. He would then upload and edit them using an softawre editing program such as Photoshop or illustrator, experimenting with the use of colour, texture and gradients. He would then of had to make a dummy book of how the final composition would appear, including thumbnails and a master-copy.
The colour Palette used by Rob Steen on the Flanimal characters are mainly primary colour's. E.g red, pink, blue, yellow, orange and green. The characters are hand-drawn and then edited using a digital-editing software such as Photoshop. Ricky Gervais gives Rob Steen some rough drawings of his idea's. Rob then finalises the idea's and recreates the characters, where you can see the evidence of the hand that made it because of the line drawing. Each character has been placed separately onto a page, unless it is a double page/poster style where all or most character are merged together.
