This mock-up uses some of the images I have created through my experimentation over the past weeks. This was mostly just to put some of the things from my sketchbook in a book format (and alongside text) to see how well they function as interiors.
I had a hard time choosing which illustrations to use as I could only pick 5 for this layout (an illustration every other spread). Because of this I chose to use illustrations that were created from one portrait - one that could be Ned. When I tried using some of the other photos it didn't relate to the text as much as I wanted it to, and felt truly random like I had just thrown images in here and there for no reason.
The illustrations look good next to the text and I like the fact that it is consistently black and white, if I were to add colour I'm not too sure how I would go about it. However, because of the very regular placement of the images (every other right hand page) and because they all the same portrait edited in various ways the pacing is fairly slow and it almost becomes predicable after the first few pages.
There are definite moments at which I want to surprise the reader and make them feel shocked or disorientated through the images to reflect certain moments in the story at which Ned finds himself questioning himself or finds out something isn't the way he believed it to be.
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