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Book Layout: 

I helped Kat to colour 1/2 of his illustrations in photoshop. They proved to take quite a while to do. 

Next I took to Indesign to create the layout before printing. This was quite a challenge for me because I had not used Indesign prior to this. Luckily I remembered that the uni printers leave close to 1 cm border when printing so I made sure not to design to the edge. It is also smart to leave a boarder anyway incase you ruin the edges by getting a bit of glue on them or something. because you always have the options of trimming it down at the end, but you can never add more paper, only take away...like a haircut hahaha. 

Kat and I have been creating a children's book based on the characters in a few of the children's drawings we'd received for our prototypes. The idea behind it is that the children whose characters feature in these books would receive royalties from the sales. This is what we call Doodle Dolls 2.0. We are imagining ways the children can profit other than the Dolls. Because the children’s characters have so much personality we thought it would be a perfect way to bring them to life even more. 

Kat chose 7 drawings from the ones we got from Amandas friends and wrote a short story about the “land of Doodle Oodle, where drawings come to like.” Kat wrote it in a poem like rhyming style, that suited the quirky nature of the illustrations. 

I am really impressed with Kats approach to make the illustrations only semi digital because it obtains the essence of being hand drawn (like a child would) but with a professional and more refined aesthetic due to the digital colouring. 

Katrial quoted that; “I made the conscious decision to use a lot of yellow and blue in the illustrations; as yellow is commonly associated with happiness (Zentner, 2001), and blue with calmness (Kalmus, 1935).”

Ref:

Katrial Worrall, 2017 

Kalmus, N. M. (1935). Color consciousness. Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, 25(2), 139-147. https://doi/10.5594/J05386