Making Miniatures, Graphic Art

Colors of the outside world. Big Think: It Works for the Turks: A Colour for Each Direction, Jacobs 2016.

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Legend

Red. From book title, My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk.

Gold because book illustrators.

Spiral because murder mystery.

Insets from chapter titles.
I Am Called Black, C2,7,11,20,22,27, etc.
I Am A Dog, C3.
I Am A Tree, C10.
I Am Called Olive, C14, 43, 57.
I Am A Woman, C54. Yes, I have caved to the pink/blue hegemony. I needed a color.

Process Notes

E for Effort.

My Name is Red is one of the required books for my current online class, UC Graham: From Istanbul to Cairo: The City in the Historical Novels of the Middle East. The plot revolves around book illustrators.

Original plan was to bail. I can’t draw, much less draw clever, tiny slices of life. I would do a lettering project or geometric art, both within my wheelhouse. Then I decided I should at least try. I would take a stab at illustrating, regardless of how it turned out. Et voilà.

Went with computer art rather than hand-drawn because a) my digital design is marginally better than my manual talent & b) getting from paper to digital is problematic at the moment. My office is a scanner graveyard.

Chapter titles chosen for easy of design rather than narrative relevance. I went with the ones I could illustrate.

Onwards!
Katherine