The BOOK!

What do I like? 

• I think printing on off-white paper has brought a degree of warmth to my images, which I think works quite well - as before they all looked too dull/cold and the paper seems to have brought them to life.  (although I wish I had also printed on some pure white paper to see the difference)
• I think the combination of patterns and images, especially in the upright landscape layout I selected, is really visually effective - as the two compliment each other and having pages of just patterns brings focus to the central images within the book. 
• Using the pattern pages as a place to put the text has also worked really well - I think the layout of having this above the illustrations makes the book very naturally easy to read and look at.
• The double page spread monoprints I think look really effective and bring the book around in a nice full circle. I feel that they also work well collectively with all the other images in the book, despite being made using entirely different process. 
• In terms of the tone of the book I think I have been able to create an atmosphere appropriate to the myths and legends I am illustrating - without demonising ravens (which is what I was looking to achieve).
• I think the narratives I selected are also interesting and engaging to read - as they are not common knowledge. 

What do I not like?

• There are just some small mistakes that I made during the printing and binding of the book that could use with fixing, just to make it look completely finished and clean-cut. 
• I wish I had made all the text fit perfectly onto 2 or 3 lines in order to avoid the awkward white spaces there are on the end of some sentences. 
• Not all the images I feel are completed to the same level of detail or crafting. If I had had more time I would have liked to maybe redo some of the images, adding more detail to bring them all to the same quality of crafting. 
• In the some of images I also struggled with finding an appropriate image to illustrate the particular myths or legends. I think they work well in combination with text, but without this aid I do not think people would be able to tell what they are about and this is perhaps a weakness in my work.