book project: final

FRONT COVER

BASKETBALL

KITCHEN

VIDEO GAMES

DRINKIN'

SEX

BALLER

BACK COVER

Book Project Reflective Essay

I decided to make a book that pokes fun at comic books, video games, and familiar characters. The overall theme of my book is what these characters are up to when they aren't being their character. So, Magneto is chillin' at home with his wife Belle and their dogs. To best serve my theme, I employed a collage technique. I felt making each page a collage would be funny since everything would be out of proportion and look like it doesn't quite go, kind of like the situations in which I placed the characters. I also wanted to use bold colorful shapes for the word blurbs, which were written in Comic Sans as a way of poking some more fun.

Keeping to a production schedule was a weird experience for me. I wasn't thrilled about dragging out a project. I like to work fast and have instant gratification. Maybe that's a bad thing, so keeping to a production schedule pushed me to constantly revise and recreate. It was good that there were clear due dates because I respond well to that. I am a total procrastinator. I am most productive and diligent when I wait until the last minute...because then I have to be.

I will keep one copy of the book that the school prints. Having a copy of the first digital book I've made is a pretty cool thing. Other than that, it will most likely only be viewable on this blog unless someone jacks it and reproduces it...like I did with all of the images I used.