About the Author - Design 3

I honestly had no idea what to do for my final print. I didn't have a third subject that I knew just as well as the previous two designs, so I felt a but stuck. But after talking to others that knew about Douglas Adams, they recommended I should look at one of the books that Adam's co wrote - The meaning of liff. Because it's more like a dictionary rather than a story book, this meant that I didn't have to spend loads of time reading it, which is the reason why I was put off choosing another book of his. I could just skim through and pick out definitions that I liked. I also think this would be amazing to visualise, as I haven't found anyone who has put illustrations to match these definitions.

So I researched about the book itself
> Always stamped with 'THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE' - taken from the mormons (assuming as a fuck you joke to religion)
> Co-wrote by John Lloyd
> Dictionary of things that haven't got words for yet
> Toponyms
> The idea came from an old school game and started when he and Lloyd were on holiday together in Corfu
> Released in 1983
> Words taken from place names in the UK

And started reading, picking out certain words and did some quick sketches. I found the book totally hilarious so I kept forgetting that I actually had to stop and draw the words!

After I had a fair few sketches, I started doing the drawing for my final design! 

I think that I may have rushed this design a little because I really wanted to get it done so I could start vectorising it, so it still looks a bit sketchy compared to my second design. But, I like the elements that I've used to combine together to form the face. I tried to vary in terms of shape and size to make it more interesting as an overall composition. It also makes it a bit more exciting for me, as drawing the same kind of form again and again gets quite tedious. I also tried to have some text in the face to break up between the images to give it more of a balance. Also as my other two designs have a fair bit of text on them, I think they'd work better as a set if the text was equally there. 

After feeling a bit more comfortable with the wacom tablet, I made all of this final design using it. I found it a lot quicker and the shapes came out more fluid. I'll definitely be using it a lot more later on in my work!

I found when I was vectorising my work that my initial design wasn't quite busy enough, so I had to try and repeat elements or add more shapes to it to create more of a face shape. But i'm glad that I noticed this when I was vectorising rather than when I printed it and solved the problem early on. 

Now I've done all three designs I can now get round to screen printing them! I'm really hoping that these go well because I'm actually quite proud of them! I know I will probably have some issues because I've never screen printed without having any help before, but at least I have loads of time so if it does go wrong I don't need to panic.