Backtrack: The book wasnt so boring after all

Ok so the majority of the book was pretty tedious for youngsters, i did find this timeline in there and i loved it. i think it appeals much more to children than the rest of the book, this is the sort of thing i have in mind for my webbook i want it to go into thw history of art but in a fun way and i feel i can definately build on this basic timeline, i want to narrow the catergories a little i dont want to bombard children with info but i think this sort of idea could work really well as an interactive webbook so children can have a bit of fun with learning.

Library Fun : KIds Art Books

before looking at the webbooks available for kids i looked at actual real books.. if kids still know what these are haha. From the front of this book it looks quite exciting, well for a young child at least. but upon opening it i found it very disappointing, its just bombarded with text and very few pictures even i feel its a boring read 

Kids Art:Cutting And Sticking!

 after deciding on my target audience i decided to look into how art is taught in schools, i found many books about the education process and the curriculum for primary education however this one was the most helpful, it explains that art is not a core subject, which i believe it should be but also it tells how children are basically taught to cut and stick and explore their creativity, although i think this is great they arnt actually taught much about art history or art movements which i think is quite a shock to the system when u reach secondary school, from my memory of primary school i dont remember really being told much about any art movements or history ok so we had the usual  brief bit about van gogh and the endless colouring of sunflowers but i think i believed he was the only artist ever by the time i was 11 maybe children should be told a little more about art whilst young as somehow when you reach secondary school you sre thrown into this world where you are expected to know artists to resesrch for your artwork or you are expected to know something at least about art movements and theres me sat there thinking van gogh van gogh 

and vangogh i wonder if any other people thought this? haha! i also noticed in the book its says ways to help at home ok so all subjects are expected to be aided by help at home but i feel it is more relied on with art are parents really expected to teach their children everything about art movements?? ok i can feel myself ranting now but this is why i feel this is a good topic to look into as it is something i am really passionate about i love traditional art and i would like to see kids learning about it rather than cutting and sticking thats stuffs great but the history can be made interesrting too!

Target Audience: Children Nowdays!

after my brainstorm i began to think about my target audience i thought quite a lot about this as i wanted to actually think about people who may actually get a good use out of a webbook i decided that the age group i wanted to appeal to was primary school children aged from around 5-12 years old i feel this is a really good catergory as the younger generation of today are introduced to technology very early, for instance my young cousins aged 5 and 9 can pick up an iphone and very easily navigate their way round the phone and are able to make a phonecall, play on the apps and games and they can text all be it the texting isnt great but really at their age did i have a clue about technology? no i didnt not compared to this, a mobile phone was vertually unheard of and a conmputer in my household wasnt around until i was way older than this maybe around the age of 12/13 i began to really get to grips with technolgy but nowdays children are practically reared on it. i would definatly like to create a webbook to appeal to this younger audience but i also want to educate them too, actually show them that not all art is digital and actually make this learning process fun and i think it will appeal to them as it is computer based!

Research Project: Starting Point

I began my reseasrch project by making a brain storm of some possible ideas, i had a rough idea of the area i wanted to work in but i hadnt really narrowed it down to a paticular technology i knew i wanted to focus on traditional and digital art and possibly merging them together, but the more i got into my brainstorm i began to think about it on more of an educational term, like possibly educating people on traditional art and how they can be transferred to digital art, so in my brainstorm i have jotted down my ideas for possible ways of doing this. i think the idea that is most successful is the online webbook idea as i feel this gives me a wide scope to develop my ideas and it is something that has been done before but also that can be developed further. i intend to look into webooks that already exsists and see how i can develop this technology further.

FB Banner complete..

FB banner tested on my site

 

As u can see if we decide to have logo in the actual picture it needs to be moved small box picture covers the logo photo so i will have a version of the logo where it is moved to the right more and then there will be one without it  in case we need it too.    

The green is now the right colour: and in the right position. I asked the Giselle why it was that in illustrator the colour was right but when you could see it on the fb banner it was the wrong green. It was because illustrator and JPEGs and the internet don't particularly get on all the time because of the quality.. So its not saved as a tiff on high quality for the internet and its now in rgb mode which has helped sort the colour out.   

This is it without the logo on the main banner.

FB banner

The picture to the right was hand drawn by me and then gone over in illustrator with a lot of patience lol and coloured in.

 851 x 315 FB banner  in illustrator. I have argued a lot with illustrator as theborder kept making the width go longer so I have had to keep altering but finally it is there. I have also altered the logo border so that it fits more snugger to the edge of the logo and no white space is now seen.