Project 3: The Giving Trees'

To begin, the book I chose was The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein.  I went through two process one that I am very familiar with and the other that I had done for the very first time.  Starting with the newest, I did keep my usual coloring in photoshop but tried to match it to the stylization.  I first started with the pen and line tools and worked my way until I was satisfied with an image.  Once there I brough the image into photoshop and colored in areas.  That was the majority of my work for the illustrator.  For the other two, I did want to keep a portfolio based work so I returned to my usual photoshop painterly appeal.  I started off first with a rough line in both of them and then basic colors.  The second image has no photo manipulations in it while the third one does.  I used this to get the buildings to seem more realistic.  To finish the two I went in with heavier painting details.

The three concepts for my redesign were in order: A romantic novel for teenagers, an adventure more medieval kind of setting, and the final a horror scifi style.  The first book I used the tree as sort of a liasion for the two teenagers where I had this idea that they could climb three tree and meet one another secretly.  I think the style of work, work wells for a young teen kind of book as it's very cartoonish and well pleasing to the eye.  For the second book I went with a very large landscape that simple said adventure in the cover.  The distance, silhouetted character really gave a very journey kind of look to it.  For the third one I think it really screams kind of this creepy and horrific scenery.  From the red beam coming from the tree to the dark atmosphere.  In each piece I think the use of color really helps decide what the story is about and helps the viewer decide what the story is about.  The only thing I do not like are the texts in all of them maybe the first one fits kind of well, but other then that I couldn't figure out how to download and add texts into photoshop.