One Week Book - Development

Our story was a bit crazy. We need to make the imagery clearer so the story is a bit more understandable. Matt suggested stairs running through the book so it's the same layout of stairs on each page. 

we thought about doing opposite stairs to give the impression of a labyrinth of never ending stairs but in the end decided to stick with stairs going in the same direction. (we were thinking of how a spiral staircase would look - we paid a lot of attention to the architecture of this teapot)

We had to consider what would translate into screenprint as something too complex might not work and theres more of a chance of the layers looking terrible if they register wrong. 

drew loads of stairs before I remembered the scene I was drawing only actually had stairs in the corner (oops) but it was all part of the group creative process to figure out what would work best. 

Added some text to my image 'shit me back' and 'where's me stick' to make it clear to an impartial audience that the subject of this story is an elderly man. 

I had a bit of a struggle with the stairs because I found when fully purple the stairs looked clunky on the page, like it didn't fit and I didn't want them to overpower the swamp and man. I tested different ways of filling them in, they all looked a little odd but I found the ones filling in less of the stairs were more complimentary. 

 I was worried about the colours overlaying because yellow and purple being contrasting would make a totally disgusting colour so everything would need to line up perfectly.

the struggle to find something blacker than black to make the positives with! I used Sam's black paint pen in the end but I tried all manner of permanent markers and all of them came out grey-ish. I didn't trust them one bit.