The original mountain that I produced wasn’t suiting the remainder of the book, so I made the decision to go back and develop it so that it would fit the aesthetic.
This is the mountain that I came up with. I decided to make it in block colour (such as the previous pages I’ve produced) as well as having simple colours that contrasted against each other. Each stage of the mountain has been blocked with 3-4 different tones of the same colour to represent the 3D element and contrast of the rock-face. I wanted to have it all in the same style, concentrating on one set of colours; however, as I developed it I liked how it worked with the two sets of colours contrasting against each other, and with the blue ‘river’ in the middle of the mountain/rock-face it really worked nicely.
I developed this into the double page spread. Because this was the very beginning of the book I knew that by having a dark aesthetic would be the wrong direction to go in. Thus, by reflecting the simplistic by effective sky and sea I loved how it looked. The one element that I will go onto develop is the placing of the typography in the actual type face along with Nessie’s positioning, as currently she is too close to the mountain and it might look better if she was separated into the sea.
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