Second Book Project

Well, next Monday is when our second book project is due and once again I have fallen victim to that dastardly disease... procrastination.

I think it was two weeks ago when we went around in class and presented our book concepts. So many people had good ideas and everyone around me seems so... artsy.

I'm not an art major, I'm a Spanish major but I do like to draw and I would love to have some kind of career in it... but, that's just it, I draw and want to illustrate stories. I'm not a photographer, I'm not some clever text artist or whatever those are called... if they even have a name, I can't take a photo that some one else has taken and make it into my own project without it being flat and boring, what I know about photoshop is limited to sketching with a tablet, maybe digitally inking, and coloring... that's it.

Our instructor says he wants us to do the work that we want to do, but he'd at least want us to try and branch out... okay. What I want to do is write and illustrate. My first book was a story that I rewrote from one of my Spanish creative writing classes and illustrated it. Should I do another illustrated kid's book? Will that be too boring? Will that mean I wasn't even trying to branch out?

I really want to learn Illustrator because it's what some artists I really like use for digitally inking and adding in speech bubbles, making logos, things like that. So my initial idea presented two weeks ago was to make a book that was a sort of compendium of illustrator text tutorials that I have tried. But... I have the text and what will I do to it to make it artistic?

Did I mention that we have to have image AND text somewhere in there... I hate that stipulation.

Anyway, I scrapped that idea and went with a similar idea to just use photo effects in photoshop AND illustrator. I'd pick a word then take a photo and try and manipulate the image to represent that word... does that make sense? Ex. words: Liquid; Image: A head made of water or something like that.

I figured that would be too hard so I'm going back to illustrating.

 

...Why the hell is this so difficult. It's infuriating...

 

My next idea is to take a few words from a song, that will be my text, then I'll illustrate either an image from the song or that phrase I picked out from it... not exactly sure on the small details yet. I think I'll stay with this idea... it's better than the above ones.

 

Comments

[Selena Monet]

I think that's a cool idea!