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Planning for the final outcome. First sketches based off the zine I made in the zine workshop. I want to think more about the environment and what a blended human/frog universe would look like. Where would they eat? what would they eat off? And how would they interact with each other?

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Day 1

This was the work I made today at the first studio session after getting the brief. I made an image of my favourite food and how it makes me feel, this being spicy noodles. I painted this in acrylic paint and layered it on thickly for texture and drew the smoke in graphite pencil. After this we made 3D models of 'cutlery' for this meal and I made a polymer clay model of a fire extinguisher

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For day 2 of the project I went to east street market which was full of food stalls, fresh food and cooked food. While I was here I worked on observational drawings, drawing from life and taking photos. I am mostly interested in looking into the restaurant and cooking side to food and looked out at the market for menus and cooked meals to research.

For my drawings I wanted to catch the essence of the market by exaggerating colour and line etc but also wanted to get good accurate drawings to look back on later in the project.

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These are some of the photos I took at the market

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The zines in this workshop helped me to think about my final outcome, the variety in different types of zines was useful in seeing how I want mine to come out. The zine 'Rabbit love stories' was interesting to me as it was animals doing human things- this is a fun approach to storytelling and something I would potentially go further with. My original idea to tell stories of my time working in kitchens could be told through animals to maybe make it more interesting.

I also liked how many of the zines were binded, I will be experimenting with different ways to bind books and different matierials.

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After finishing my comic, I found that it could be better and there could defiantly be more too it so I first of all wanted to produce higher quality drawings to print and put in the comic. Some of the drawings really didnt read well and work together so I am going to be working on this.

I also felt as though the world I am illustrating could be more in depth so I am making some images related to their resturant. One of my ideas is to make a menu with 'normal' looking popular dishes that when you really look you can see they are made purely out of insects, frog food.

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I took some pictures of food menus in my local area to inspire my own frog food menu.

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This was a potato print i experimented with to print on the back of my zine, the print didn't really work but it was a fun experiment. I wanted it too have a rough feel, as if a frog had tried to make a print. I will be doing this again with something else like lino.

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I designed a character for my main frog chef- based off of my pet frog and amazon milk frog

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Sketch of the frog prepared food. Thinking about the fact that frogs wouldn't eat off plates but they might potentially use leaves or something else from their environment.

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potential cover for my zine, I want to embroider the design into fabric.

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For the aggressive frog, I based the character of a cane toad which is a huge type of frog that would attempt to eat smaller ones, so I designed the small frog based off of a tiny breed of frog the rain frog.

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This design for the zine wasn't working for me. The images are not strong enough and hard to read and therefore doesn't make much sense, its hard to understand what's going on.

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I redesigned the zine, basing it off the same storyboard but rendering the images more. I also added text, I feel that it filled the page nicely and added another dimension to the story

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One of the first things I thought about when thinking about food, was the food I feed to my animals. A lot of my time is spent feeding and looking after my animals and this got me thinking about interesting ways their food could be used as inspiration. The image of applying human characteristics to their food was fun. Most people are disgusted by the food I feed to my frogs; crickets, roaches and mealworms etc and the thought of turning these insects into something 'appetising' was interesting to me. Making human recipes using a frogs diet as ingredients was a fun contrast I wanted to work with. As I know about their diet, environment and behaviour I want to use my knowledge on the creatures to make something with.

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It is known that frogs can be cannibalistic, mostly bigger species of frogs such as the bull frog that will pretty much eat anything that fits into its mouth; including smaller frogs, snakes birds and insects. In my zine I want to include this as the conflict as a 'frog restaurant' would be dangerous for smaller species of frogs as they as prey to to the bigger frogs. This will be resolved by the fact that they are distracted by the insect meal, bug spaghetti.

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The children's book 'sitting ducks' recommended to me by my tutor is another book including anthropomorphic animals. Following the story of a duck and an alligator that become unlikely friends.

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Frog and Toad is a children's book series about anthropomorphic frogs living in their human like universe. It inspired parts of the universe for my frogs as I also want them to be frogs taking on human-like roles but unlike Frog and Toad having less human influence, focusing on blending human and frog food.

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First sketches of the comic I wanted to make. The colours were not working for me and the sketches could be better so I want to work on that.

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This was my comic mockup. I used the printing services in the library but the quality wasnt good enough. I am going to reprint using the digital print workshop and use better quality paper. My drawings just printed straight onto normal paper felt a big flat and boring so I want to add more interesting elements to it, such as binding in an interesting way.

For the cover of the mockup I sewed canvas into the book as the cover and drew on the front cover The colours defiantly didn't work and it looked way too rough. When I try this again I want to try embroidering the cover rather then using paint pens as it will give a more put together look

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I plan to print out my zine using the risograph machine, using a mix of hand drawn images and printed digital works to make up the pages.

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These were the tests for using the risograph machine. I found it really hard to get a good print. I tired adjusting the settings and when they came out better I still didn't like the effect and it wasn't really what I was going for. I therefore want to use a different method for printing my work.

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Final design for my frog restaurant menu. I named their restaurant 'Hungry frogs' and added some human recipe/frog food dishes that at first look you think that its human food, but you can see that its made of things like worms and other bugs. I decided to put this on lily pads in a pond as this is frogs environment and using the lily pads as plates so its still a bit more human like.

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Some menu inspiration I took from pintrest. I needed to think about how I would compose the menu. Also looking at how other artists illustrate food was something I needed to look at as I haven't illustrated much food before and wanted to see how others did it for inspiration.

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To print my book, I went to the digital print workshop. These above were my first prints however I used the wrong paper so it didn't come out great. The ink is patchy and transfers due to me using unsuitable paper for the printer. The technician advised me on the correct paper to use and from that I got the better results.

While the printing quality on the second lot of prints is much better, I really like the textured effect on the first. Next time I will research my paper properly and make sure I have the suitable one for the printer.

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For my final outcome I used the printed book pages from the digital workshop and used my skills from the book binding workshop to put it together.

I used felt for the cover and embroidered in the design, and then sewed this into the pages.

If i had more time I would have gone back to the print workshop and used more textured paper as this effect suits my style much more than what I used. I would have also created pop up pages to give a more exaggerated effect.