Graphics Frankenstein book project

The project was based around creating a book from an existing book or fairy tale, I chose the story of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The Pages of the book were created on tea stained card, I then placed the illustrations and text on the card when it dried; I then covered the illustrated pages in wax to give them an aged look along with the tea stain. I found the project testing as I had to think of many more paths than I would have had to normally think about; for example, I had to think not only about the illustrations for the book, but the pages that the illustrations sat on, re-creating the story of Frankenstein within the word limit, the housing for the book including front and back covers and how the book would be held together (stables, bound or stuck together). With the amount of possibilities for the project it meant that I had to plan carefully each step of the project, including in-depth planning illustrations for each page, I also debated what style to draw the book in, either a light happy feel for a children's book, or a darker feel and more of an adult feel, I ended up with something in the middle of the two (although I wouldn't class it as a children's book). If I could change anything about the project it would be the way the book was bound, a larger time scale would have meant that I could have devoted more time at the end in finishing the book with a smarter way of connecting the pages together.