OUGD404 - Studio Brief 02 - Final Drawings

After deciding on Risograph printing, I began to create and finalise the look of the content. As the book focuses on tenderness as a main concept I wanted each of the pages to be hand drawn, and after experimenting with a range of materials I settled on using a crayon to draw with, as it evokes naivety and the nature of the material creates a form of softness, as well as providing an obviously hand made aesthetic.

The process of creating and preparing the book's content for printing was relatively simple. I separated the text from the images, and where necessary I also separated different sections of the images, depending on how many colours would be used.  Each layer was drawn out by hand on individual sheets of paper, using a light box to ensure that the layers would be aligned properly. Initially I had scanned in every hand drawn page and begun to collate them into an InDesign document so that the process of making masters and printing the pages might be slightly smoother, but I decided to forego using a digital version of my publication as a guide as I felt that scanning each drawing in on the top of the machine like a photocopier would give me more freedom to adjust where my drawings were positioned on each page if I should need to.