Month: January 2016

Family trees image dump

So I sort of finished my Hades map (see below) and I’m working on the Castor and Pollux family tree. This is lite production at the moment and I’m still working on page design (book size is sort of settled?).

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Here are the family tree maps that I really like, to serve as references for how I’m going to draw. I might make some changes to the Hades map (i.e. add more background elements?) but basically this is the kind of look I want to achieve for the Pollux segment of the book.

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I’m going to use this to work on the family tree but I may wait until after tomorrow’s class so that I can get some insight and opinions from everyone. In the meantime, I’ll be doing more page layouts and I’ll start on my anatomical illustrations.

Hades map image dump

I’m going to start on my map of the five rivers of Hades when I can find a pencil (I forgot to bring one) but I’m collating image references in the meantime so I have something to refer to with reference to the look and feel I’m going for. I probably will restrict the maps to being parts of the book instead of parts of the gallery space. This is because my intention for the gallery space involves more illustration than ephemera.

This is just a post where I can dump all the map references I like.

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Antique Maps of the World
World Globe
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This is by Chris Riddell for the Edge Chronicles! A more dimensional way to map.

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First FYP session of the semester. So, here are the things I’ll be looking at to kick off production:

  • Geographic maps, illustrated maps: I could map out the narrative of the book in a pictorial form (I don’t know what this could look like at the moment), I could map the family tree of the twins and a map of the five rivers of Hades. The map of the constellation of Gemini may also be relevant.
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This is the map of the twins’ family tree from Astrid’s giant book of Greek mythological family trees.
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The constellation of Gemini the Twins. I honestly don’t know how this is supposed to look like twins. I’ve never seen a constellation that actually looks like what it says it’s supposed to be.
Kind of a disgusting-looking map, but it might help me visualise my map better.
Kind of a disgusting-looking map, but it might help me visualise my map better.
  • As for visuals, I could look at Victorian broadsheets (Paul), 1930s film noir/detective agency typewriter looks (The Mystery Guild), and the Wiener Werkstätte.

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Note to self: House Of Leaves-style typography
Note to self: House Of Leaves-style typography

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Process update

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I would have uploaded this much earlier, but OSS wasn’t letting me upload images. Here’s my logo development for The Mystery Guild, which I’m going to use to inspire the rest of my book’s look and feel. Right now I’m working on:

  • writing the two narratives of Paul and Pollux
  • experimenting with different page setups and gallery setups (the latter being mostly in my head)
  • first draft of FYP report done

Most of my illustration will be done later once all the text and layouts are finished. I draw a lot faster than I design/write so I feel this is the most prudent way to go. Also, drawing later will let me build on all the personal illustrative experiments I’ve been doing (single-colour in addition to dotwork).

These aren’t related to FYP but all my illustrative experiments are transferable, so I’ve decided to post them here too.

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