Development of Final Shark Drawings

This image isn't working, its too complex and the overall result is generally quite messy.

I printed these out several time during the process of creating them, these can be found in my final submission folder - they helped in terms of seeing which colours are successful especially when it comes to background, and also in terms of testing quality.

Problems:

• Not enough composing.
• Details and writing is getting lost at smaller scale.
• Some too complex and losing gestural success and charm.

Solutions:

• The inclusion of my handwriting/text is successful, in both an aesthetic sense  and gives all of these drawings a functional purpose, which fulfils my aims (of creating educational, engaging, scientific-esque illustrations).
• Decided to aim to print them at a bigger scale, perhaps A2 - this will allow my handwriting to be legible but without having to compromise the initial quality and immediacy of it.
• Addition of more text will help to give the drawings more purpose and even balance on the page.
• I spent some time reducing some of the line work on photoshop, so that the simple, big gestural feeling of the mark making isn't lost.