illustartions

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 Illustrations
March 2024

I would like to illustrate existing stories, such as The Boy who Cried Wolf or The Fisherman's Wife, possibly changing some elements of the story to fit my subject more, such as instead for a wolf it could be a slug, what eats mushrooms. I would like to look at some of the stories i read as a child to illustrate.

This is the start of the styling process for the background/landscape of the images.

For the 'people' in these stories i want to make my own creatures with natural elopements such as rocks, trees and mushrooms. I wish to focus more one the mushroom ones as i enjoy and have confidence drawing mushrooms normally and feel like i would find it easier to make more human like and learn how to create human like motions with something i feel like can draw normally. However, i would like to also look at other drawing other creatures so that the stories have a more diverse 'cast'.
To start of this process I looked at some of my own images of mushrooms and sketching them as if they are alive, with arms and legs and a face. Starting off i struggle with making the angels correct as well as making the feet/legs look more 'normal', to help this i did some experimentations of the legs, landing on a small stump like shape with a foot. 
After spending some time working on my existing designs, i started to look at specific mushroom types. With these, i used a book i had on mushrooms, and looked at the elements of them what makes the mushroom that type, i also looked online to see the growth of the mushrooms so i can more clear adult and children ones.

ceramic slabs - image transfer onto the slabs to save on time (silkscreen? emulsion?)  - display on the slabs on a table/flat surface and the on the wall - add chairs, so you can sit down and read/look at the stories
- slabs have the illustrations and the story itself on them - one with images and one with story - combine image and story on same slab


I went down to ceramic to look at some examples of silkscreen and image transfer sheets onto ceramics, i like the detail you can get with the transfer sheets however i don't like the gloss look. While looking i found a matt/un glazed piece that is a silk screen, this was my favorite one out of the ones i looked at and has the same look i want to. I don't want to do a mutiple print screen, so that means that im limited to one colour. I would like to experiment with doing a mono tone illustration for the ceramics and have coloured illustrations on paper. I feel like this might be the better option but i would like to experiment with that as well as coloured/mono tone emulsion prints onto ceramics.

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