The autonomy of the picture Vs the picture that explains. BEORN the creation of a picture book
This project has the goal of creating a picture book inspired by the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, more precisely the character Beorn. It’s main purpose is the development of a fantasy book, focused in illustration and the creation of a visual narrative, made from the study and analysis of different books about Beorn and it´s pass, developing a editorial object.
The book opens up with a smaller book inside printed on a diferent paper. Here is where a small abstract tells the reader a backstory of the main character.
Its important to note that this text written in Runes.
This was made this way so that once the reader opens the book, he is inside immediatly Tolkien´s imaginary world.
To help anyone who reads this first part of the book, a small card with the translation was made.
After behing introduced to a brief part of the history, the picture book begins.
As this is a picture book, the ideia is to have the image part be autonomous from the text, in other words the text and the pictures are able to live in the same book but do not depend on each other to tell the story.
The final product has a hard cover, finished in a black cloth.
The pages are printed in a munken pure 90gr paper
A paper jacket was made with the name the author and the year, with a ilustration of Beorn in full bear mode.
Inside there are no words other than runes, this was made so that the reader has a more immersive experience.
All the ilustrations were made in spreads, so each picture extends to two pages of the book
The movement was depicted by the way the characters are disposed in the ilustrations.
This was inspired by the author Perry Nobleman, in Words about Pictures (1998), he writes that the motion can be made by showing the same characters in diferent poses creating a sequence.
The history was divided in tree key moments.
The beggining where Beorn was kicked from his home in the misty mountains.
The middle, where Beorn is visited on his house by Gandalf and Thorin´s company.
The end, where the battle of the five armies takes place.
The changes of scene where marked by a ilustration of the landscape where the history takes part, in the first is the Misty Mountains, the second is Beorn´s house and forest and the last is in the Lonley mountain.
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