For this blog post’s experiment, I used the opportunity to prepare my next Christmas presents. I personally really like illustrations that tell a story where the longer you look, the more little details you notice. I wanted to try to make illustrations that contain a personal story for the people who will receive my gifts. Each element in the pictures is kind of an “easter egg” that the recipients will recognize and understand. For example, one person really likes hiking, while the other person is interested in specific machines used on construction sites and collects little model toys of those machines.
I have wanted to try bookbinding for quite a while now but never really knew how to, so I was very happy about the bookbinding workshop(s) we had at FH until now and that I finally found some time to try this in personal projects. So, I ended up making mini notebooks.
As it fits the topic, I would also like to show another illustration I did for a Christmas card last year that also had the concept of telling a story in an image that reveals more details the longer you look at it. It has the theme of teddy bear characters creating chaos while doing Christmas preparations, and the longer you look, the more situations where something is going wrong you will notice – like the Christmas tree being about to fall, one character secretly stealing some freshly baked cookies and spilling the frosting on the curtain…
