Evgenia Lesnikova
Silent Book
The book project must not contain words, with exclusion of the title and possible subtitle. The narration must be realized exclusively through the illustrations and have narrative and stylistic coherence. There are no limits regarding age or reader group, and the subject matter is open.
The Author undertakes, under his sole responsibility, to ensure that the illustrations included in the book project are original and unpublished works, as well as the project presented in the competition, absolving the organization, the International Jury and the publisher Carthusia Edizioni who will publish the winning book project, from any moral and legal responsibility in case of projects book and / or illustrations presented in violation of this regulation, copyright and / or in case of plagiarism to third parties.
The illustrations featured in the book projects can be in colour or black and white, with unlimited traditional or digital techniques and media.
The project must be presented on double pages with an open format of 57 cms in width and 28.5 cms in height (closed format 28.5×28.5cms and opening from right to left). Number of double pages is prefixed: 14 internal double pages of 57×28,5 cms, 1 double page as frontispiece with dedication, front and back cover.
Will not be admitted to the selection: book projects with partial or incomplete layouts and book projects exceeding, due to excess or defect, from the dimensions specified.
The Author undertakes, under his sole responsibility, to ensure that the illustrations included in the book project are original and unpublished works, as well as the project presented in the competition, absolving the organization, the International Jury and the publisher Carthusia Edizioni who will publish the winning book project, from any moral and legal responsibility in case of projects book and / or illustrations presented in violation of this regulation, copyright and / or in case of plagiarism to third parties.
The illustrations featured in the book projects can be in colour or black and white, with unlimited traditional or digital techniques and media.
The project must be presented on double pages with an open format of 57 cms in width and 28.5 cms in height (closed format 28.5×28.5cms and opening from right to left). Number of double pages is prefixed: 14 internal double pages of 57×28,5 cms, 1 double page as frontispiece with dedication, front and back cover.
Will not be admitted to the selection: book projects with partial or incomplete layouts and book projects exceeding, due to excess or defect, from the dimensions specified.
References
Initial idea
Initially, I planned to make a book about children's fears. I even asked my friends what they remember from their fears.
The answers were: fear of heights, darkness, cockroaches, being alone, etc.
The answers were: fear of heights, darkness, cockroaches, being alone, etc.
But then I looked at what a lot of people are doing or doing books about fears. I wanted to come up with some kind of non-trivial story, strange, unusual.
So the idea was born to make one of the main characters the fluff from the navel, which usually collects in the navel when you wear knitted things.
The story is this:
A child girl hunts down a feather that promises to be in her dad's navel.
Noticing her appearance, she takes the fluff.
Fluffy resists, but the girl puts her in a jar, where the fluffy tries to escape and is exhausted.
The girl feels sorry for the fluff and she transplants it to her stomach (navel).
Fluff does not come to life. The girl cries with regret and decides to return the fluff to her homeland - on her father's stomach.
When the girl returns the fluff to the people, he discovers that a lot of fluffs live under dad's jacket.
Fluff comes to life and they all eat candy together.
Below is the original storyboard with graphic comments from Irina:
So the idea was born to make one of the main characters the fluff from the navel, which usually collects in the navel when you wear knitted things.
The story is this:
A child girl hunts down a feather that promises to be in her dad's navel.
Noticing her appearance, she takes the fluff.
Fluffy resists, but the girl puts her in a jar, where the fluffy tries to escape and is exhausted.
The girl feels sorry for the fluff and she transplants it to her stomach (navel).
Fluff does not come to life. The girl cries with regret and decides to return the fluff to her homeland - on her father's stomach.
When the girl returns the fluff to the people, he discovers that a lot of fluffs live under dad's jacket.
Fluff comes to life and they all eat candy together.
Below is the original storyboard with graphic comments from Irina:
Key comments:
- do not place important elements on the fold
- use more dynamic composition without horizontal lines
- think about how the color will work and whether it will mean something (for example, the color of the fluff matches the color of dad's sweater)
- don't leave too much empty space
- do not place important elements on the fold
- use more dynamic composition without horizontal lines
- think about how the color will work and whether it will mean something (for example, the color of the fluff matches the color of dad's sweater)
- don't leave too much empty space
BNW Storyboard
Colour Storyboard
Process
Final
