Drawing Colours

To start this part of the project I opened up the scan of the drawing in PhotoShop to add some colour to it. Some sections of the drawing have been coloured in as seen below.

Two layers were needed to get this task done. The reason for this is so I could have something in PhotoShop that'll work like tracing paper. The layers used were one for the scanned drawing and another one for the colours applied.

For relatively small sections in the drawing i zoomed in on them to help make it easier to get the selected area I wanted.
Selected area before colour:

 Selected area after colour:

 After making all the selections and colour choices, this was what the final piece looked like.

Finally, the drawing would later be imported onto the Adobe Illustrator file for the book. Text in relation to the drawing would be put into place. Though the font would be changed to help it have a more child friendly look to it.

Drawing Invision

“Scampy is a very funny cat and no one can ever argue with that”

“She tears around the house like runaway trains

Chasing her toy mice which all look the same” - Running around on a carpet chasing a clockwork toy mouse.

“She also plays football with two balls                          

Dashing and scamping right down the halls” - Scampy playing with two small footballs in the hallway. (Side view for a starcase with banister and understair cupboard.

“If you’re in her way - your legs are the goals” - An in between the leg shot of Scampi jumping towards a person.

“Before long your clothes covered with holes” - Scampy climbing up the legs of a person whilst clawing and leaving holes the person’s jeans.

Scampy is a very silly cat and no one can ever argue with that

“She crawls up the chimney to have a look round

Quietly and softly to not make a sound” - Scampi slowly approaching a brick chimney and looking up inside as if its somewhere to explore. The chimney is not alight but the surface on the inside of it is covered in soot.

“She climbs up and up until she’s almost stuck” - Inner shot of the chimney where Scampi is climbing up with all limbs on either side.

Then spins twice around till she’s covered in muck” - A brick chimney with soot and smoke filling up the living room but Scampy is nowhere to be seen except half her tail.

“Now back to the livingroom proud as can be

The soot covered monster jumps on the settee!” - A soot covered Scampy jumping all over the settee getting sooty pawprints on it. Also in the image is a lamp, bookshelf and a picture frame.

Scampy is a very soppy cat and no one can ever argue with that

“Whether curled up in a ball or stretching out wide

She always looks sweet lying down by your side” - One sketch of Scampi lying in her bed curled up all snug and happily just like a cat usually would (Example) and another of her in the garden stretching.

“Purring and purring as loud as a bus

Rubbing and rolling she makes such a fuss” - Sketch of Scampi rolling around. Also including vibration symbols around her body.

“Although sometimes this affection does not make me smile

My alarms not gone off I need sleep for a while! “ - A person in bed hiding under the bed covers whilst Scampi jumps on him. Other features will include an alarm clock with a sound symbol.

“So, here’s to Scampy what a very great cat

She’s funny, silly, soppy and - that’s that!” - A very happy Scampi sitting innocently.

Drawing Practice

On Wednesday 7th January, I was given a selection of drawing tutorials to choose from. All of the seven tutorials given were on how to draw cats. Out of the seven of them, the two which I chose to follow were 'How to draw Marie from Walt Disney's The Aristocats' on Easy Drawing Tutorials and 'How to Draw Anime Cats' on WikiHow.

Before following the two tutorials I chose, I had a little warm up exercises which consists of scribbles and other random pencil marks.

These practices will help loosen a person's drawing hand.










Practice 1: Marie from Walt Disney's The Aristocats

The sketch:

The tracing:

Practice 2: Anime Cat

The sketch:

The tracing:

How I Felt

Drawing is something I have not grown up doing. I may have done it when I was between the ages of 5-8, but that is pretty much the age range I only did it.

I was reluctant to draw, but with these tutorials I feel that it has helped me slightly. I was kind of hoping to get the end results I was for, and I was a little bit surprised to see what I was able to create.

Data Analysis of CBQ

What was the activity?

We had to analyse and make statements about the data of the Childrens' Book Questionnaire by Aaron Hooper. We did this by getting into groups for three, discussed some statements and created bar graphs in a Google Sheet.

Examples of the questionnaire data...

Data Analyses Statements

Eleven people took part in a questionnaire regarding how parents and their children access stories and information. The questions that were asked were…

1. Age
2. Gender
3. Ethnic Background
4. The child/children you care for age group
5. How often do you read to a child?
6. How often do does the child you care for access stories?
7. What do you think is the best way to show/read stories to children?
8. What is your child's favourite way to access stories?
9. Which format of story do you spend more on per month?
10. Favourite genre of children's book
11. How much in pounds would you spend on children's stories per month?
12. Do your or the children that you have cared for have any learning difficulties?
13. If you answered yes to the previous question. Please can you outline the ways they prefer to consume stories and why?
14. Please read the linked story below. What age group do you think this appropriate for?

• 90.91% of the eleven people who took part in the survey are 30 or older.

• Out of the eleven who took part, only one of them was Male.
• 9 out of 11 were ‘White British’.
• The age group of the ‘child/children you care for age group’ varied between 0 to 8 years
• Everybody in the survey had ‘Paper Books’ as their best method of receiving a story or information.
• Everyone who took part in the survey read to a child every day.
• 10 out of the 11 participants said that the child they care for reads Daily. Whilst the one said the child they care for reads every hour.

 

• If we made a paper book, it would sell more as everyone in the survey prefers paperbooks out of all the types of publishing formats.
• If we sold our book within the price range of £6-10, it would sell better than if our price range was £15-20.
• If our story is fictional and ‘adventure’ we could pressume it would be more popular with a general audience.
• If we made out book to appeal more to women, it would sell more.

What did I know before?
I knew how to create bar charts and graphs using data provided from previous tasks in previous education.

What have I learnt?
I learnt how to carefully analyse research data and to make statements based on questionnaire result evaluation.



Week later...
The week after the data analysis eleven more people were involved in the survey meaning that more data was collected. All of the respondents were female and White British. 10 out of the 11 were 18 or less whereas one was between the age of 19-25. They all cared for a very young age group as they all answered 0-4. Only one person in the most recent results had Audio Books as their best method of recieving a story/information.

Examples of the data we ended collecting...

Childrens Book Secondary Research

Formats

Publishing of childrens books can vary in different types for format such as…

Hardcover

Also referred to as hardback or hardbound.

There is a lot of detail on the hand drawn content that makes this book titled ‘The Scarecrows’ Wedding’ are presented with highly child friend themes and illustrations as well as the choice to text font and layouts that are relevant to the book’s story and themings.

eBook

Electronic books (variously referred as e-book, eBook, e-Book, ebook, digital book, or even e-edition) is a book-length publication in digital form and consists of text, images, or both, readable on computers, tablets or other forms of electronic devices. A lot of children’s books published as hardcover are also available as eBook copies.

For example, Judith Kerr’s ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea.’ may have originally be a hardcover book, but it was release as eBook copies for several eReaders and tablets. The themeings, story and portrayal of the tiger is child friendly and could easily appeal to children.

Whilst doing some research on what the best selling childrens books are (using Google to have a search), I ended up finding Amazon.co.uk’s Top 100 Best Selling books. However, most of the books were aimed at a relatively older age than the examples of the different formats.

Most of the books in the list are sold as Hardcover copies. Although there are some books in the list that are sold as Kindle Edition copies (eBook copies). There also some childrens books that can be found in Amazon.co.uk’s Top 100.

To give an example, in the top 6 is a list of books targeted at children and varying in genres/categories, fonts, illustrations, colours and layouts.

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