The progression above depicts my development within the landscape. Because I wanted to adapt a style that made the design continuous over two pages I tried this with the setting this time, while also treating them as separate pages. I love how this has turned out because it captures the dark mood and danger that surrounds Nessie in her everyday like, along with a division between the monsters and illustration so that it is interesting for the young audience to look at. Adamantly, I know that the narrative probably wouldn’t appeal to the young audience or that it is too difficult for them to get their head around; however, I have approached it with a suitable style of illustration in an attempt to tackle this tough issue.
With the decision to create shadows in the background it made the visuals a lot less dense and vibrant, though I still liked how it looked on the page. By doing this it became apparent that the deep blue background wasn’t suitable for the one page (as shown it is less visible on the second page of the spread), thus, I continued to refine it to look as professional as possible. Another element that I decided I would also change was the colour of the narrative. I only want Nessie to be the single element in colour as I think that this would be more powerful.
Because I dimmed the colour down so that it matched the mood and aesthetic of the page, I also had to develop the typography. I made the decision to have this in a light grey as this wouldn’t distract from Nessie (so that she is the only element of colour within this DPS- as she is trying to fight her monsters) and it also made it readable for the target demographic. With the key words which had an alternative type face, I refined these into a white because they stood out and I continued with the monochrome colour palette so that it would look professional and easily readable without it being too distracting.
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