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

Screen prints

Here are a few screen prints, which I have made lately: 

I'm hoping to test print the flower and the tree pattern onto fabric, but at the moment that's on hold while I sort out my website. Also the sugar skull isn't quite finished yet, but hopefully it will be soon. Next layer is all ready for me to screen print tonight.   

Animal Colouring Book - Part 1

In the last 6 months, I've spent more time drawing and trying to create projects for myself. So as I enjoy drawing animals, I decided to make an Animal A to Z colouring book for my friend's daughter.

I started the process by working out a list of animals, this is what I came up with:

A - Aardvark                         N - Nightingale   
B - Bear                                O - Owl
C - Cat                                  P - Peacock
D - Donkey                            Q - Quail
E -  Elephant                          R - Rabbit
F - Flamingo                           S - Squirrel 
G - Giraffe                            T - Tortoise
H - Hedgehog                         U - Umbrella Bird
I - Iguana                               V - Vulture
J - Jellyfish                            W - Whale
K - Kangaroo                          X - X-Ray Tetras
L - Lemur                               Y - Yak

M - Magpies                           Z - Zebra

 

I ended up with a pile of illustrations.

 

As I looked through the animals, I decided some of the pictures would look better with more of a background.

 

So in the progress of getting the pictures finished, I started looking at typefaces and at first I tried this. 

However it didn't have the right feel, so I ended up tracing around a typeface, to make it more hand drawn and friendly. 

During this process, I decided to start screen printing again. I thought the elephant and the whale would make good three colour prints. The first print I made was the whale, but as I was using an old screen, you could see ghosts from previous prints, so I ended up buying a new screen. 

 The new screen helped and the whale looks a lot better

 Next up was the elephant, but I decided to be a bit more playful with colour of the elephant. 

Now my room is surrounded with cute animals. Next step is to sort out the layout........