Final Design

Here is my final product called 'Randomeyes'. There are eight pages and a foldout poster on the reverse side.

I like how the title is broken up onto two lines. This makes the reader think for a second to work out what it says.

I like the angle that the eyes are at but if I were to do this again, I would pick a more eye-catching pair of eyes.



I love the second page. There is a lot whitespace but this allows the pair of eyes to be the focus point of the page. The eyes are larger than the other eyes on the opposite page and this creates juxtaposition. The diagonal positioning of the eyes makes the page a lot more interesting than if they were horizontal.

The third page has a collection of single eyes that had been drawn in different styles. The fact that they're all different and in varied sizes makes the page more interesting.



The fourth page is my least favourite. I don't like it as much because there isn't much contrast in size and positioning. It doesn't look as exciting as the other pages.

The fifth page has two large eyes that are quite bold. The second eye has textured colour that breaks up the harsh black lines. I like the small detail, on these two eyes, where a thin fine liner has been used. It gives contrast against the thick lines.



The sixth page mirrors the previous page. This creates two sets of eyes. I think that this is a good feature to have in the booklet because it strays from the norm of having each page separate or having a double page directly next to each other when open.

The next page of the booklet features a pair of Disney Princess eyes. These eyes belong to Rapunzel and because they are well known, they draw more attention. Therefore, I have placed them on their own page. This makes them quite striking, especially being vertical and having a large amount of whitespace surrounding them. The colour in this set of eyes is messy and goes over the lines. This is on purpose because it gives character to the drawing.



The four sets of eyes on the last page all belong to Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga has many dynamic styles. These eyes show the diversity of how someone can look, purely from the change in make up. Make up is important to consider when drawing eyes because it can potentially change the way the eye looks.

The eyes have been laid out in rows to show that they are the same eyes but with different make up. It's also different to the other pages because there are so many eyes on one page.



The poster features a large black eye, two pairs of light blue eyes and a title.

The title is small so that it doesn't clutter the page. The black eye is sketchy and characterful, perfect for the main focus point of the poster. The two other pairs of eyes are light blue so that they can be seen as a background and not part of the main picture. They also fall off the page to show that they are not as important as the black eye.

Work in Progress

After drawing a sufficient amount of eyes, I scanned the pages of the sketchbook into the computer and edited the images in Photoshop.

In Photoshop, I cropped the image of the sketchbook page to a pair of eyes that I thought would look good in the booklet. Once the page was cropped, I edited the image.

When editing, I changed the threshold so that the grey-scale images became black and white. They become black and white because the threshold changes the contrast of the image.



When the image was purely black and white, I then used the magic wand tool to get rid of the white background to make it transparent. This would make the image more flexible for moving it around other images and text.

After that, I created new layers for the colour. In this case, I was only allowed to choose one colour. This is because in the graphics industry, there may be times where companies can not afford multiple colours for their printer. Here, I chose blue. I used colour on the majority of the images but used light and dark shades to create an interesting variation.

I also tried out textured colour. On one pair of eyes, I thought that having block colour would look not as interesting as a textured look. I went to the drop down menu called 'Filter' and selected 'Pixelate' and then 'Pointillize'.

Sketchbook Drawings

 I decided that my booklet's theme would be eyes.

I created a board called 'Eye Drawings' and added pins that I thought I could copy or receive inspiration from.

I looked for different styles and types of eyes on Pinterest. I found sketchy eyes, anime eyes, eyes drawn with pen, eyes drawn with pencil and loads more. Some of the eyes were celebrities eyes such as Lady Gaga and Dan Howell and some of them were little sketches that various people had drawn.

I tried drawing a few animal eyes but they didn't look good drawn on their own, without the rest of the face.

In my sketchbook, I drew the eyes with various types of media including fine liner, pencil and felt-tips. I tried out drawing different eyes with different techniques. For example, one pair of eyes were drawn with fine liner dots and another pair of eyes were drawn with scribbly thick lines. Trying out different techniques gave an interesting variation in eyes that I could have included in my booklet. I drew single eyes and pairs of eyes so that I had more choice in what to include in my booklet.