I just thought I’d upload some pages from my reporter project so I could maybe chart my development throughout and extend on some things that I would have otherwise added to the essay if we’d had a bigger wordcount. This the first day with the birdwatchers and the first page, I can see here that I’m still adjusting to drawing fast pace and don’t know yet how to disperse text and image together in a way that looks good, as I approached the reporter project as journal keeping and so in a sense the sketchbook is the ‘final piece’.

Here are the pages of my second meeting with them (the pages in between are of birds and scenery at the reservoir in which they birdwatch where I went to on my own until I could see them next). I’ve realised by this point that it could look more aesthtically pleasing and at least and try to attempt typography for the date, unfortunately it hasn’t hit me yet that in order for the whole thing to look ready to print (I mean the proffesional look of Craig Thompson’s Carnet du voyage which was an inspiration for the journal which was also done almost on site itself),  I have to treat all of the text as imagery in its own right and consider the composition of it alongside the inked portraits. I like the way I’ve set the scene though by drawing out the church hall first before I entered it, feels more like the travelogue and a graphic novel.