In continuation to Week 9's Blog, I started working on the next 8 spreads and editing the last two to get a total of 10 spreads done by the 10th week of class. I soon noticed that I was going to be unable to keep up my ideal proportionality for all 20 spreads due to the fact that I did not have enough artwork nor enough text. Therefore, I had to start spreading my artwork out and decided to really utilize negative space, along with making use of color boxes.
I completely changed the layout of the first two spreads and added on more content. I figured that since my wolf was the focal point of my magazine, why not make it a lot bigger. Therefore, I expanded the final wolf illustration along with the heading and a quote so as to attract the reader to the rest of the content. From here on, I started taking color from the actual artwork on the spreadsheet and applying it to the text, color boxes, and background to complement the page theme. I wanted to divide the sections into categories: real wolf, variations of wolf, 100-stroke drawings, color and texture drawings, and start the value drawings.
With the wolf variations, making the whole (9) wolf pictures larger seemed like something I should focus on, rather than the collage of variation wolfs. When I transitioned into the line drawings, I wanted to make the background with complementary gradient hues, ranging from green to indigo. After that I went to the color and texture illustrations which I felt needed to stand out, hence the white background. From there I went into the value drawings. A background that was grey, text that was white, and boxes that were black really complemented the shadings since they where black and white and all in between.
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