One of my favorite fantasy stories is Robin Hood, largely influenced by the 1973 Disney animated film. Thus I chose to illustrate the original tale, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle for a senior book design project.
Book Creation:
I loved the idea of photography and illustration interacting together—again probably inspired by growing up with 90s cartoons). I superimposed some of my drawings over the photos—scroll-like headers and fly-away banners for captions. Then created illustrations which would fit around blocks of text (inspired by Medieval manuscripts), and created Gothic-style capital letters. For the characters, I put my own spin on them by making them into frogs! I wanted to show Sherwood Forest through photography, and thus took photographs at a beautiful park nearby my apartment.
Design and Software
Illustrations and Photography by me, Photoshop and InDesign used for editing, book assembled by hand.
Note: Text from the original Robin Hood tale by Howard Pyle, retrieved from the open source Gutenberg Project online. Final book photography by Andy Nguyen Le.
Contents Below
Final Book
Illustrations
Final Book, photo gallery
*Photos by Andy Nguyen Le.
Cover and Select Pages
*showing duotone photography & page illustrations
Illustrations
