What Challenges am I facing?
- Having spent all day butterfly printing and constructing a draft on photoshop it is just not working. I thought that I could maybe get away with it but I spoke to three separate people and all of them said the same thing - It doesn’t look like a brain.
- Their reasons were: brains have rough edges and wiggly bits inside. Somebody also suggested using a more opaque media to make it stand out more
- Another person said that the background looked too plain under such simple imagery and it needed some kind of texture
What is going well?
- I am happy with the layout of my book and having the two faces facing each other on the cover is really interesting (it is less literal than having just the brain on the front).
- I had difficulty trying to crate the repetition of faces across my cover because there was no space for the centre of the brain (which runs down the spine) on the parts that fold in. I resorted to just cutting them out and matching up the two sides. This works really well because it puts a focus on the central brain. This repetition fill the whole cover in a very simple yet interesting way.
What next?
- In response to this feedback I am going to go away and do some more butterfly printing using a more opaque media than ink (maybe an ink and acrylic mix or just acrylic?)
- I am going to focus more on making my image look more like the texture of brain skin rather than a brain scan (appears to be more recognisable to most people)
- I also want to photocopy my prints and experiment with different ways pf constructing the face rather than cutting straight into the original (maybe making it more ambiguous and bumpy to retain the braininess of my brain)
- I also want to play around with backgrounds. I am thinking about drawing them rather than scanning in textures (i think a texture might clash with my design a little rather than enhancing it)
- I need to start considering text layout
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