A Design Science Study of Picture Book Creation with Mixed Media

Abstract:

In this study, the two teachers adopted the cross-school team teaching method to guide the groups of the fourth-grade students from the Department of Commercial Design of a Technology University in Central Taiwan with their graduation design projects. The focus of this study was the team with an adult picture book as the topic. The idea of the story was from city news regarding murders for insurance fraud. An ocelot was used as a metaphor for a criminal with cruel behaviors of getting easy money through illegal measures. The initial images were hand-drawings. They were then colored using mixed media. Finally, the computer software was used to modify the images, create special effects, adjust the colors, and arrange the layout, so that the picture book could be printed and published.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 496-500)
• Pages: 2803-2806
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.496-500.2803
• Online since: January 2014
• Authors: Rui Lin Lin
• Keywords: Digital Image Processing, Mixed Media, Picture Book Creation

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