Animal Colouring Book - Part 2

It took some time, but I finally did get around to sorting out this colouring book.

With the cover, I decided to do an illustration of a group of animals that are featured in the colouring book. I decided to keep it black and white, so that the person colouring in, can colour the cover as well.

Once the layout was all done, I thought I would try a test print on some 80gsm copier paper to see how it looked. Somehow I ended up with an extra spread blank, so with the test print, I ended up gluing the middle page together.

As I racked my brain, trying to work out what could I do with the extra spread. My friends suggested that I could do an illustration with all the animals from the colouring book.

I also decided to redo the donkey, owl and squirrel because I felt the original illustrations didn't really fit with the rest of the book.

 

Once all my images were in order and my layout was sorted, it was time to choose the paper, the photo below show L-R: 80gsm, 120gsm, 160gsm.

 

I decided that 80gsm wasn't the right choice as it showed the other images through onto the next page. Then 160gsm was too thick and difficult to bind. However 120gsm was perfect because the paper was light enough to make it easy to fold and bind, but also be thick enough not to show through the other illustrations. With the binding, I decided to go with a simple 3 hole pamphlet stitch in white thread because I felt I needed a binding which would hold the paper nicely as it would be too thick to staple and I wanted something that didn't interfere with the illustrations inside.

For images of the final piece, please visit http://miss-pang.com/Animals