Making my lyric book in InDesign

When I was putting my lyric book together in InDesign I started by using the rectangle frame tool to select where I wanted my work to go.

I then pressed "cmd D" and chose the piece of work (my tile pattern) that I wanted for that page in my lyric book (in this case, the front cover). It then came up in the box that I had drawn.

I adjusted the size and the position of the tile pattern.

After I had all my work in place and in the correct pages I downloaded a font off "Dafont" and started added my chosen lyrics.

Finished Lyric Book

Tile Pattern

For my tile pattern the theme was a map, I linked this with traveling. I drew out all the objects I had chosen and scanned them in, ready to put into Illustrator.

Once I had placed the scanned image of my drawings I removed the background and separated the separate objects so they could be placed on my page.

When I started placing the objects on I first arranged some down the left hand side, making sure they were all different sizes and not perfectly in line to make sure that when the tile was repeated there wasn't an obvious seam between the tiles. I then copied this line of objects to the right side in exactly the same place. I repeated this for the bottom and the top. I then filled in the centre of the tile with my left over drawings.

This was the tile once I had decompostulised (sir's word) it.

I then repeated it to get a continuous pattern.

Squaring Up

This is the image I decided to use for my pixilated drawing. It's for the line in my song "he was buried by her" I split the image into 352 0.5mm squares, I did the same for a page in my sketch book. I then took a square in my book and shaded it the over all shade of grey in the image.



This was the finished product. At first it didn't look like the image because the squares didn't have enough detail in, so I halted some of the squares so I could add more detail. I also put the outline of the angel in because you couldn't see where the background finished and the angel was supposed to be.

Photoshop Edits 2

Photoshop Edits

Photo's for Photoshop Edits

Pen Drawing - Car

I chose this image because it links in with the lyrics to the song I am doing.



This drawing was traced.

I did two drawings of the car, one free hand and the other I traced. The one I traced is a lot more accurate so it was the one that I used in Photoshop. I think using my traced version made the end design look more professional and accurate.

This was my hand drawn.


In order to colour my lines I separated the background and the ink layer. I then selected the lines and used the paint brush to colour them.

I then used block colour to fill the rest in. I did this by using the lasso tool and making it sure that it was on the "add to selection" option so I could colour more than one section at a time. Once I had selected the areas I wanted to colour I pressed shift backspace, made sure it was on the option "foreground colour" and filled it with my chosen colour.

Next I added more block colour to other areas to make it look more realistic.

I then added a pattern to my darker areas. I did this by using the paint brush, making a tiny dot, selecting it and then going to "edit" and "define pattern". It then saved to my patterns in the "pattern stamp tool" and I added it to my image.

Drawing Task

These are some drawings from my annotated lyrics. I used different techniques for each of the objects. The song I chose for these drawings was Juliet by Lawson.

From memory.

Upside down.



Short Time.



Continuous Line.



Left Handed.

Annotated Song Lyrics

I annotated my chosen song lyrics so I had ideas for images for my lyric book.