Project Proposal

0.) Project Title :Project Mayhem

1.) My goal for Project Mayhem is to explore ideas concerning illustrations and approaches to their interaction with writing context and subject matter.

2.) Project Mayhem will be a series of short stories complete with illustrations. Each story will play with a children's book format but deal with subject matters bordering on being adult. Each book will focus on a carefully developed character and a story evolved around the character.

3.)The products of study for Project Mayhem will be in the form of four to five formatted short stories with illustrations, each focusing on a contrived character.

4.)Visual research for Project Mayhem will include studying works by artists such as Egon Schiele, Aubrey Beardsley, and various artists who deal with cartoons and comics.

5.)Visuals for my project will come from my illustrations and final copies of books. Progress of this will be kept in the blog, journals, and sketchbooks.

6.)During the course of Project Mayhem, it will be necessary to review and work in Photoshop and InDesign to format the stories properly. I have worked in both programs extensively in similiar projects to this, although I plan on familiarizing myself with InDesign to become more profficient on formatting. As far as illustrations are concerned, I will first be drawing and watercoloring each one by hand and then scanning them into Photoshop for further finetuning.

7.)Timeline for Project Mayhem:

October 7th- Character Mock-ups
October 21st- Stories written
Nov. 18th- Illustrations finished
Nov.30th- Stories Formatted and Photoshopped
December 4nd- Printed