problem solving task

1. Problem Solving
Task 3

2. Problems
• - Saving and backing up work content: sketches, drawings, story text, research on specific artists.
• - researching videos on illustrating and consistent drawings of characters, different positions and movements.
• Sketching and practicing my own style and technique making sure its original and unique from other illustrators.
• Making sure I can use software's such as Photoshop and in design if I cant get into college.
• Researching ways I can print my book out onto a hard cover with good quality paper for a professional approach to my work.
• Planning out my pre production and how long I will need to practice my style of illustration to ensure its perfected before
beginning production.
• Equipment such as pencils, paper, paints and anything I may want to use for my illustrations.
• Thinking about the cost of printing out my work, how I will do this for example Online or in a shop or college.
• Storage on my phone and home computer as well as college to ensure all my images, writing and drawings are kept and there is
enough room.
• Weekly reflective journal on production.
• My story

3. Illustration and planning.
• Before beginning my production I have to tackle a few challenges to ensure
my work is up to standard for my FMP. I haven't done much drawings
involving characters so I will need to make sure I have enough research on
existing characters and what style I could approach that is fully original but
inspired by other artists. I also need to create characters that are consistent
with their characteristics whilst being in different positions and
movements. To do this I will have to start by practicing sketching out the
character from the front, behind, left and ride side so I have a full over all
idea of how it will look. I am hoping if I give myself enough time to practice
with this I will end up with a consistent and skillful looking product. I will
always watch YouTube videos on how to illustrate for beginners so I havent
missed any steps.

4. Storage
• I will create enough room on my mac at college for a folder of all my
images from scratch, starting with my sketches all the way through
production. I will make this a new folder so there is enough room. I
will also put all this on a folder on my home computer so If I ran out
of room at college, I can always put any more work in that folder too.
With screenshots, I will want to create a lot of new ones like I do with
any project therefore I will begin to delete old ones that I no longer
need or want. I will also make sure there is enough storage available
on my phone, just so I can always send myself photos and sketches or
download videos related to the project.

5. Photoshop and in design
• I have the software's needed such as Photoshop and in design on my
college computer, however if I am un able to be in college and need
to complete work or finish off something, It would be useful to also
do this at home. Therefore I will probably get Photoshop on my home
computer as in the long run this will be really useful for my
production. I also already have a graphics tablet at home, so would be
able to use that on Photoshop and actually get some use out of it. As
it is my FMP, I think this would be very beneficial and help me keep up
to date, and not a waste of money.

6. Reflective journal weekly.
• So I have enough content for my evaluation to talk about, I will create
a weekly reflective journal on my progress and things that went
well/didn’t go too well and what I could improve, things I learnt. If I
do this, when it comes to evaluating my work and my presentation, I
will have enough to talk about and reflect on week by week as it is
such a long project. I also want it to be my best project yet with it
being FMP, so providing a lot of information is key. I will ensure I
provide detail on what I did that week as I don’t want to forget any
thing that got me to my end outcome.

7. Equipment
• Preparing what equipment I need will be key when it comes to
production as I want to make sure I don’t end up not having anything
essential. Things as simple as pencils that I can sketch with, paper and
sketch books, and any paints that I might want to use. For my last
project, I used a whole sketch book for my original sketches and
drawings and the practice I did to create them, so I will make sure i
have another for my FMP. Another thing I used a lot of was coloured
pens such as sharpies as I can play around with colour schemes
before going onto photoshop, so this will be useful too.

8. Presenting my work
• To present my work, I want to find a way I can present it professionally
like any other children's book would be. I want to print it out so it stands
out, so using a hard back cover and printing it out on the right kind of
paper in the right size will help me achieve this. I need to decide what
size I want my pages before beginning my work on Photoshop, as well as
deciding if they should be portrait or landscape. I will also research
where I will be able to print out my work as a book, for example an online
website where I can import jpeg images with a front and back cover, or in
a local supermarket such as tesco that has places you can print out
photographs onto professional paper.

9. Backing up my work
• So I don’t lose any of my work, I will save it all onto my mac. So far, I
have never lost work for any of my projects, therefore I especially
don’t want to with my FMP. I will save any of my work onto my mac,
then also back up onto OneDrive as that saves automatically. Incase I
also lost anything on onedrive or my mac or need to access my work
at home, I will also back it onto my memory stick. Just to ensure I
have a plan B.

10. The Story writing
• When I write my story, I will need to of already decided how many lines I will be
writing on a page, whether I will be keeping it minimal with a sentence on each
page, or two or 3 on each page or even writing my story through little poems on
each page. Whatever I choose, I need to keep in mind that the less writing on
each page the more illustration I will need to create. So I am thinking of keeping it
to about 2 sentences a page, with about 15 pages. I also want to write my story
before my illustration, so I can virtually be creating a story board for the text. I
also need to decide what I will be writing about. My theme is my puppies outings,
but I need to decide and plan where the outings will be as I will be drawing them.
For example, if I will be creating a wacky adventurous story with a twist where
she ends up in space and different countries, or just every day places such as the
park, beach etc. I will also decide If my text will be very descriptive with
adjectives or I will show this through the use of my illustration. Say if she is
wearing a coat and I write ‘her coat blew away in the wind’ or ‘her rosy red coat
blew away in the wind’. If I didn't’t describe the coat, I could just use the use of
colour instead.