Composition and layout are massive factors in illustration and areas that I find hard to properly investigate and experiment with. So for this project it was extremely important that I made a conscious effort to think carefully at many potential layout and composition options. I started off in my sketchbook by highlighting a few important features in each Act and creating a print for the separate acts. However this still left me with far too much information to process into one print with many different focuses in each print.
I decided then to focus on just a few specific moments such as running into the woods away from the castle. However I knew I wanted to include a lot of motifs and imagery to link in the themes of the play to my prints. All my work felt a bit crammed and unorganised and I couldn't work out how I could present all the information simply and effectively to portray the correct atmosphere. I experimented with layouts and compositionally changed around the imagery however I still wasn't happy with them.
I thought that perhaps it was because I was drawing it out in pencil and not thinking about how it would look using the process of lino printing. So I started testing the images with pen using line to convey different mark making. This made me think more about how the end result would work regarding space and how it would print as a reverse image. However I was still not happy with the composition of the prints. They did not look like a finished illustration to me and they did not hold the magical theme and mystical atmosphere that I wanted throughout my prints.
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