illustrating/graphics for a book?
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- Cabein0
Hey, im in a similar scenario. Iv been asked to design & layout a 200pg essay/book. I havt really worked on something this extensive but here is the process i am currently following
First i read the manuscript and went through all the photography to get familiar with the content.
Then got the writer and photographer to add notes to the text referencing images that relate to each chapter and quotes that could be carried out of the body text.
I started working in a collage style by laying out spreads of text and available image options roughly. This helped to see which page formates worked and also gave me flexibility to experiment with various typefaces, columns .etc
Now iv started on the final document carrying over spreads that i feel are strong and designed a final grid structure, typography hierarchy, , color pallet.etc
Still work in progress...
- herzo0
thanks for the feedback
- herzo0
No arthur this is a special project and I am "the art director". Its up to me to figure out what needs to be illustrated and what doesn't. I have already decided to wait until I get the entire manuscript.
- arthur0
Has your Art Director given you an outlined list of the graphics you're to produce?
I've illustrated a couple dozen books (mostly how-to books) and I'm always given a list of assets I need to produce and how they relate to the manuscript. I've always been given the manuscript, and refer to it in areas that require me to get additional information. But I've never read more than 10% of a manuscript, unless I read it for fun.
- randommail0
When in doubt, crowdsource it out.
- loool0
first thing is to read it completely...you never know...there are a lot of physical descriptions in every book (blonde hair, green eyes, red skirt, tall man etc) and you want to know them all before you start to illustrate...
that's the way I do it when I do fairy tales or any narrative stories...
If you do some scientific stuff graphics I suppose you can go chapter by chapter..
- doesnotexist0
read it first, then brainstorm. then read again. and again. and probably again.
- herzo
Anyone here ever do graphics for a book? How did you approach it? Did you get the entire manuscript and then start to do the graphics or did you go chapter by chapter as it was written?