A day in the life: Roughs

Here are my initial rough drawings for the brief 'A day in the life'. I was given an article titled 'Can super Thursday save the UK's Bookshops?'. We were to read the article, and then illustrate it inside given dimensions, considering the tone of voice we would adopt and how best to convey what the article was about. 

At first i really struggled with this article. It's quite a long, drawn out piece of writing and touches on many events and on goings in the world of books. After a lot of thinking and reading over i decided to make illustrations that were pro books, that made you want to read, and that also touched upon other things. It talks about ebooks potentially taking over, and about the drastic drop in bookshops in the UK. I read other articles on the matter just to boost my background knowledge and to form a better opinion. I read an article about how books had an old fashioned beauty that ebooks just can't seem to mimic. That no matter how easy an ebook is, its still ugly. 

 I came up with a few ideas i was happy with, a few are just above. But after the peer feedback on friday i felt my group helped push my ideas amazingly. They were really encouraging and brought new concepts to the table that i hadn't yet considered. 

The ones i will be working on for the finals will be the book with the patterns and trees coming out, but the layout will be completely different so that you read the image from left to right as you normally would. The idea behind it being that books can take you to another world, that a book is a beautiful tool that has so much to offer.
The other will be the homeless man and the rich man, but instead of the rich man holding an ebook, I'm going to change it to a standard book, to show that books are universal, that there need not be a social status or money involved to be able to own a book. That books are part of our culture, of our history and hopefully our future. Possibly they'll be reading the same book to show more of a connection.
 The last one will be the books shouting from the rooftops, to touch on a quote from the article that says 'publishers, booksellers and authors have joined together like this to shout from the rooftops that bookshops are essential, and that they're interwoven with the culture in our country'.

I now need to experiment with colours and draw up some more ideas so that I'm ready to do some final illustrations that I'm happy with.