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Images of the process of the final mind map

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Images of the process of the final mind map

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Linked below are a couple of photos that show the process of the final mind map.

Image One: Image one is of what our poster looked like, when we had stuck the water colour title, leaves, and stems, onto the black poster.

Image Two: The second picture is taken just as we started writing our information onto the flowers. This was a incomplete mind map, and the reason we took this photo was because we wanted to record the work that we had finished in class. And as mentioned above, we had finished our first and second photos in class.

Image Three: This is a photo of the completed work of all the writing on our flowers. This work was finished outside of class, in lunch breaks and at home. We realised that we weren't able to finish this work in class, and had to put effort to finish our work onto the mind map poster.

Image Four: The last photo is of our completed poster. In this photo, we have added the titles of the information in the flowers, on top of the two watercolour leaves. We did this instead of on the butterflies, because the butterflies weren't big enough to fit the titles on them. We even decided to add arrows to the poster, because we thought that it would help the audience understand the order of the information, so that the mind map can flow in a swift and organised manner.

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process of Mind map summative_20190204195420

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Story Book Illustrations Research ~ Arya Shah

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How did you share responsibility for decision making within your group?

Throughout the whole process of this summative and task, my partner and I always made it a point to discuss our ideas with each other before making a decision for the mind map. We would discuss ideas, weigh the pros and cons of each idea and try to understand what would be the best for our mind map. We try to work out the issue within our group, but sometimes we couldn’t choose between each other’s ideas. This is when we asked our peers and teachers for help. We would check with our friends to see what they think is the best idea for us to make. Then, we would ask our teach to see what is the most practical idea for the mind map.

How did you manage and resolve conflicts to work collaboratively in teams?

I wouldn’t say that we faced many issues within our team, but my partner and I did sometimes face some difficulties at times. The conflicts and mild arguments which we had were mainly about the final idea of the mind map. We would sometimes face difficulties about background colour, the style of the flowers or other small things as that. I think one of the main ways we solved our conflicts was that we would compromise. If I compromised one of my ideas, then we would compromise on another idea of my partner’s. We even decided to seek help from our peers and teachers when we were in doubt of which idea we should choose. However, we didn’t argue about much topics and tried mostly to work with all our ideas combined.

Did you listen actively to each others perspectives and ideas?

Yes, I believe that we definitely did listen to each other’s ideas and perspectives when it came to our mind map. Throughout the whole process of making the formative and summative, we would tell each our ideas and think about how we could implement those. However, obviously we weren’t able to implement all those ideas. The method we used to check if we could implement an idea, was that we would first think if we could actually make such an idea possible. Then, we thought if it would look good or not. That’s what mattered a lot to us. In conclusion, we thought of all the possibilities and weighed the pros and cons of those ideas.

What is the theme of your mind map? Have you succeeded to develop it in your visual presentation?
The theme of our mind map was a combination of nature and watercolours. What I mean is that we planned to make a couple of flowers which would open sideways, and the information was written under the flowers. So, as the audience would open the flowers, they could read all our information. We made all of our final things out of water coloured papers. This included everything from the flowers, the stem and even the title’s watercolor blob. We wanted this to be one of the main themes of our mind map because we thought that it would definitely compliment the theme of nature and flowers. We believed that to put these two themes together, we would have to compliment it by creating a dark background, which is why we chose a black background paper. We are definitely extremely happy with the outcome, because we believe that the black paper compliments the watercolour and nature themes to a great extent. We also believe that we were able to highlight the two important themes of this mind map, by including only the most needed items on the mind map. This only included the plants, the stems and the arrows. The arrows were made of only thick white lines, in order to keep the focus on the flowers and not bring the attention on the arrows. Hence, I believe that we did succeed in developing our two main themes into our mind map.

Did you learn anything new in this process?
Yes, I did definitely learn a lot of things in the process of creating my visual presentation and mind map. One of the first things I learned in the process of making this mind map was all of the information on Illustrations. This included what exactly an illustration is, what picture books are, he types of illustrations, how an illustrator builds a character, what storyboarding is, he process of illustrations, and much more too. Not only that, but I have also learned a lot of other skills including watercolouring and calligraphy, as well as more. I intend on learning more throughout the rest of my units and submission processes.

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As I was absent on this class, I do not have any sketches from this day.

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On this Monday, we were on a school trip for the week, which is why, I couldn't work on any sketches for this Monday. However, I did work on submitting all of my pending work this week.

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On this Monday, I worked on finishing up my cover page layout, as well as thinking of the background and props which would be included in either my cover page or my illustrations instead my book. This was a crucial part of my Monday sketches, as it enabled me to start thinking more about all my illustrations as well as finish incomplete tasks.

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In this formative, we had to finalise one final cover page layout. I wouldn't have been able to do this without trying out other cover page designs. Which is why, I made a total of three cover page layout designs. However, the final one which I chose, wasn't just one of the previous ideas I had designed. It was a mix of three designs, actually.

Picture 1 - Boy hiding behind a brick wall

Picture 2 - Children sitting at a table

Picture 3 - Name plats in a bucket, with Brian's name hidden.

Picture 4 - FINAL COVER PAGE

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In this task, we had to design a few of the characters from our story book illustrations. However, I wasn't able to make a lot of character designs. This is because as it was my first time making these sketches, I wasn't able to make them quick. This was also because I couldn't make them properly, which is why I spent a lot of time on them and kept trying multiple times.

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In the first class for our media trials, we dealt with dry medium. In this class, I first started by mentally mind mapping a few dry mediums that I want to try. So, I decided to try  oil pastels, colour pencils, normal crayons, and others as well. How this started, was I first drew out parts of my book cover and characters. In which, I tried out the different dry media that I had thought of. While doing this, I had even tried the different colour schemes that I think which would work for particular parts of our cover page and characters.

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In the second class for our media trials, we dealt with wet medium. In this class, I first started by mentally mind mapping a few wet mediums that I want to try. So, I decided to try  water colours, ink pens, and others as well. How this started, was I first drew out parts of my book cover and characters. In which, I tried out the different wet mediums which I had thought of. While doing this, I had even tried the different colour schemes that I think which would work for particular parts of our cover page and characters.

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In the third class for our media trials, we dealt with both wet medium and dry medium. In this class, I first started by mentally mind mapping a few wet and dry mediums that I want to try. Basically, in this class, I was trying to use wet and dry mediums together. In which, I would first start by using water colours or ink pens, on top of which I tried out colour pencils, normal pencils, white crayons, brush pens and ink pens.

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Linked below is the photo of formative drawing that my partner and I made, in order to make a draft of what we wanted our final mind map would look like. However, in the final summative, we did make a few changes, which we believed were the best for the mind map we make.

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process of Mind map summative_20190204195420 (dragged)

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Reflection for Summative

Cover Page

How have you communicated your thoughts, message and idea through your artwork?

The cover page of my story book has a lot happening.

For example, the bucket with the name plates on the teacher's table demonstrates how everyone is very creative, however, Brian's (the invisible boy) is buried under everyone else, as well as is every simple and not extremely outgoing and creative. I think that this demonstrates the manner in which Brian is a very introverted student and doesn't like being as outgoing as all the students.

The fact that my cover page is all about Brian as a quiet and introverted student, and not completely invisible, I believe is showed in a very creative manner.

Another example is that Brian is peeping into the classroom, trying to fit in, however he is just not like the other children. Which is why, he isn't liked by the rest of the students for a long time. However, when a new students comes into the class, Brian is able to connect with Justin very quickly, since he is adaptive and helpful.

Is it clear to the audience what your book is about by looking at the cover page designed by you? Take two peer feedbacks to justify.

Yes, personally, I do believe that the cover page for my chosen story book us very clear to the audience.

With this cover page, my audience would be able to tell that the story is about an introverted and quiet little boy. This story is very captivating, and teaches a very important moral to all children. Which is why, it is important that I find a manner to creatively explain to the children the importance of all morals and what they teach us in the future.

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Have you created your art work, keeping your audience in mind? Is your layout and style (chosen) audience friendly?

Honestly, I do believe that while creating my cover page illustrations, I kept my audience in mind. I kept thinking about how my cover page must be simple enough for children to understand, yet creative enough for them to enjoy looking at the cover page, both at the same time.

How is your title communicating the main idea?

I do believe that my title is communicating the main idea. Firstly, I made sure to use black colour text on top of an already dark background. What I mean, is that I have put the title on top of the brick wall background. Because of this, the title is slightly merging into the brick walled background. In this story book, Brian isn't completely invisible, however, he is always very quiet and doesn't like talking to other students in his class much. This represents how Brian is merging in with everyone else, and not quite standing out.

Take two productive peer feedback asking them if you have succeeded to communicate through your visuals and text you have chosen for your illustrations.

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Write down your thoughts in your journal about this unit.
I think that this unit is about how to convey a story through illustrations for young children. This will include many important topics, and techniques which will teach us a lot in the future.

What is this unit about? What is your prior knowledge on illustrations?
As mentioned above, this unit is all about illustrations and their important roles in story books for young children. Story book illustrations and story books do not generally have many words, but many morals, through small sentences, and generally more picture that are children friendly.

What is the role of the global context "fairness and development" (differences and inclusion)?
Story books are all about the importance of teaching children important morals which they should keep in mind as they grow. Fairness and Development is also an important part of this unit, because not only does it teach children a lot, but it also teaches us a lot. We students, as illustrators, must show the importance of the topics of differences and inclusion through our unit, also because it teaches us to be fair and developed through the whole process of illustrating.

What is the role of the key concept "Aesthetic" in this unit?
Aesthetic is a very important concept when it comes to story book illustrations. This is because, we must create a aesthetically pleasing story book illustration, which pleases the eye of a young child. No child would be interested in reading or looking at a book which looks boring, and wouldn't teach them anything either. In fact, in order to help children understand these topics, we must teach these morals to them in a creative manner.

What is the importance of the related concepts "audience" in this unit?
The audience of this unit is also very importance. Crucially, the audience is the young child who reads our story books and admires our story book illustrations. We must remember to keep everything children friendly and attracting.

Which "genre" are you considering for this unit? What do you know about it?
I am considering to take story book illustrations and cute drawings as a broad genre for this unit. I haven't given this a thought yet, but I believe that my ideas will keep developing as I go deeper into this unit. Which is why, I cannot say anything about what I know about the genre that I decide to choose.

Looking at the unit content what will be your role as an artist?
I do not know I lot about this question right now, however, I can say that I will be needing to understand that as an artist, I will need to keep all the key concepts, related concepts, global concepts, and contexts in mind and think of a creative story book illustration!

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Since I was absent for this class, I do not have a finalised story book layout. However, I did cover this topic up through the following class. An example of covering this topic was in the character designing. Here, I payed attention to how my characters might look in each story book layout. I have also spoken to my teach about the same.

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Since I was absent for this class, I do not have a finalised sketch for the background and props layout for my story book illustrations.

However, I did cover this topic up through the following class.

An example of covering this topic was in the media trials. Here, I payed attention to how the items I would be drawing in my final cover page would look, along with the props.

For example, one background was the walls, for which I tried a brick effect.

Another example is the checked ground, for which I tried multiple designs, and finally chose one.

Also, in my mix media, I even drew and painted cactus plants, in order to show some greenery on the teacher's desk in my final cover page. However, this didn't turn out to be in the final cover page. This doesn't really matter, since I was experiment

I have also spoken to my teach about the same.

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Is your artwork reflecting the chosen text?

Yes, I believe that my artwork is indeed reflecting the chosen text. This story book is about how quiet this boy, Brian is, and how he spends a lot of his time alone in his school, since he doesn’t have a lot of friends. However, this changes when a new character comes, Justin. Before Justin arrives, Brian would spend a lot of his free time, such as recess, or Choosing Time, alone. He enjoyed expressing himself through his art, rather than verbally. This was non-identical to the behaviour of other young toddlers and children, since they spoke a lot and had a lot of fun with their friends. My artwork showcases how Brian would spend his alone time drawing away on the ground, creating sculptures and imaginative creatures of his own. However, I wanted to show the concept of how Brian would imagine many creative things, but wasn’t able to successfully bring them to reality. This could be possible because of the fact that he was judging himself, since there was no one there to support him. Which is why, in the foreground, I have shown how Brian is imagining these amazing creations, but in the upper back ground, he is only able to draw as much as possible in his capacity.

Is your illustration and character style matching your cover page.

My illustrations aren’t completely matching my cover page since in the cover page, there was a completely different location, and in my illustration, there is a completely different setting as well. However, I can say that the idea behind both my cover page as well as my full page illustration is the same. The idea in short words is that Brian isn’t completely invisible, but is incredibly silent and isn’t able to portray his feelings emotions and opinions to others in any other form other than art. However, this changes when he gets a push from a new friend, Justin.

When it comes to the character style, I think that my character in the full page illustration looks very similar to the one in my cover page. However, there wasn’t a need to make it identical, since in the full page illustration, my character is lying on the ground and is showing his back to the story book reader. This is why, you can’t quite tell if my character in the cover page is similar to the one in my full page illustration. While that is said, I have also tried to make my characters in these two illustrations as similar looking as possible.

What are the positive points and the negative points in your artwork? (Take 2 Feedback and add your own opinion)

I think that one of the positive points of my full page illustration is the fact that I have made a creative full page illustration, which tells the deeper meaning of the story, and doesn’t just draw a part of the story book. What I mean is that by drawing the wonder bubbles, I have demonstrated Brian’s thinking processes as well. This is not a part of the story book, but is the deeper meaning as well as the moral of this story.

One of the biggest negative points in my artwork is the fact that my work isn’t a 100% neat. It could in fact be much more neater and much more immaculate as well in my entire full page illustration.

What are the elements of art and principles of arts are used in your work, could you explain it?

1. Lines → I have used many different lines, and not just simple vertical or horizontal lines. Instead, I have used many intricate and curved lines throughout the entire artwork.

2. Shapes → I have actually used many different shapes throughout the entire artwork since I had to draw many various items. This includes thought bubbles, cars, planes, houses, figures, and much more. Therefore, I was forced to use a variety of shapes in this full page illustration throughout.

3. Form → There was a variety of ways in which I depicted an idea through my illustrations. What I mean is that I tried to depict various ideas through my illustrations. For example, the thought bubbles represented Brian’s vivid imagination and how he had formed an imaginative form of things in his head.

4. Colour → I used a variety of colours. However, in some sections of the illustration, I was forced to used limited colours. For example, in the top half of the full page illustration, I created a chalkboard, where Brian is only drawing with a chalk on a plain black surface. Towards the bottom half, near the thought bubbles, I used my imagination to make every section as colourful as possible.

5. Value → I think that this illustration has two sections with different values. For example, in the chalkboard part, I tried to create a very broken and monochromatic tonal value. I did this by only using grey and white as the colours. Whereas, in the thought bubbles part, I created a very colourful and vibrant valued illustration.

6. Space → I think that in this illustration, I used a combination of both positive space and negative space very well. This is because in the chalkboard part, there is only a few lines which aren’t coloured in, creating a balance of positive and negative space. This also can be perceived in different manners. Also, in the thought bubbles, I have made a very clear difference between the positive and negative space. This can be seen by the colours and the specific lines separating everything.

Texture → I think that I haven’t used a lot of texture in this illustration. This is because I have only used one medium, water colours. These give the paper a textured rough feeling once they dry, however are also very simple compared to other textures.

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Small Sectioned Illustrations Photo + Reflection

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Is your artwork reflecting the chosen text?

Yes, I believe that my artwork is indeed reflecting the chosen text. This story book is about how quiet this boy, Brian is, and how he spends a lot of his time alone in his school, since he doesn’t have a lot of friends. However, this changes when a new character comes, Justin. Before Justin arrives, Brian would spend a lot of his free time, such as recess, or Choosing Time, alone. He enjoyed expressing himself through his art, rather than verbally. This was non-identical to the behaviour of other young toddlers and children, since they spoke a lot and had a lot of fun with their friends. My artwork showcases how Brian would spend his alone time drawing away on the ground, creating sculptures and imaginative creatures of his own. More specifically, this can be seen when others are playing games and reading together, and Brian is all alone doing what he loves doing best, bringing his imagination to life by drawing away.

Is your illustration and character style matching your cover page.

My illustrations aren’t completely matching my cover page since in the cover page, there was a completely different location, and in my illustration, there is a completely idea between the two. However, I can say that the idea behind both my cover page as well as my small sectioned illustration is the same. The idea in short words is that Brian isn’t completely invisible, but is incredibly silent and isn’t able to portray his feelings emotions and opinions to others in any other form other than art. However, this changes when he gets a push from a new friend, Justin.

When it comes to the character style, I think that my character in the small sectioned illustrations don’t  looks very similar to the one in my cover page. This is because in the small sectioned illustrations, all we can see are hands of the children, and this isn’t emphasised much in the cover page.

What are the positive points and the negative points in your artwork? ( Take 2 Feedback and add your own opinion)

I think that one of the positive points of my small sectioned illustrations is the fact that I have made creative illustrations, which gives the reader a different and unique perspective of the children and actions taken by them. In similar words, from the book, I tried to create an illustration which lets the reader perceive it in whatever manner they wish. I wanted to keep the illustrations basic, but open to different perspectives.

One of the biggest negative points in my artwork is the fact that my work isn’t a 100% neat. It could in fact be much more neater and much more immaculate as well in my entire full page illustration.

What are the elements of art and principles of arts are used in your work, could you explain it?

1. Lines → I have used many different lines, and not just simple vertical or horizontal lines. Instead, I have used many intricate and curved lines throughout all the illustrations. More specifically, I have used curved lines to create massive circles and ovals.

2. Shapes → I have actually used many different shapes throughout all the illustrations, since I had to draw many various items. This includes the top of desks, board games, a book, as well as art paper and dragons for Brian, and nonetheless, much more. Therefore, I was forced to use a variety of shapes throughout this collection of small sectioned illustrations.

3. Form → There was a variety of ways in which I depicted an idea through my illustrations. What I mean is that I tried to depict various ideas through my illustrations. For example, I have literally illustrated an important part of the story, where everyone is enjoying their time with others, and Brian, an odd-one-out is spending his time doing something he loves. And the best part is that Brian does what he loves no matter the circumstances or what others think of him. This also represents his open-mindedness and vivid imagination.

4. Colour → I used a variety of colours. Throughout all the small sectioned illustrations, I used my imagination to make every section as colourful as possible. This also required me to focus on the composition of many colours next to each other.

5. Value → I think that this collection of small sectioned illustrations has a combined contrasting, constantly changing, varied and vibrant value to it.

6. Space → I think that in this illustration, I used a combination of both positive space and negative space very well. The positive space can be considered as the small sections, which are very vibrant and colourful. Whereas, the negative space is the white portions outside, which are left as plain.

7. Texture → I think that I haven’t used a lot of texture in this illustration. This is because I have only used one medium, water colours. These give the paper a textured rough feeling once they dry, however are also very simple compared to other textures.