Comic Strip
Day Eleven
This was from the tutorial activity where we were introduced to isotypes. We had to choose our own storyline and to draw it out using isotype with no emotion. I used images that were given to us in the tutorial and gravitated toward the older looking cars. My story was then shaped around the two cars which I decided I would base my story on needing to pay attention while driving or you may miss key signals and have a car crash. I wanted to keep each drawing with their outlines only without colour to show the older features of the cars. Once I had finished we were to then edit the isotype, however once I had left class I decided to change how I edited the isotype and wanted to keep it without the colour and just added the background itself. I feel like the aging of the background keeps the context of the cars themself.
Day Twelve
This comic strip was inspired by the work in class. To show images that conveyed a story without actually showing emotion. I used illustrator to create this storyline. I have only come to learn illustrator this year so I am still learning the basics. I find reading the storyline from top to bottom makes for easy reading. Keeping everything black apart from the one significant heart that is red as this is how the story is based. I like how there is no emotion of the faces but the consistency and change of age creates an emotion.
Day Thirteen
This one was just a bit of fun. I little story of the blue boy is by himself in the background while the other three happy children play jump rope. I wanted to keep in the theming of no emotion on the faces of the characters. How I differed the happy children to the boy by himself was the arms in the air to show joy and happiness and the arms down to show loneliness. I chose to use copic markers for this drawing for their vibrancy in colour. I think it works in that it is easy to convey a message by simple drawings and without any emotion on faces.
Day Fourteen
This week I tried to use as many different tools as possible for each day as experimentation to see how images turn out and what seems to be more my strong suit. I tried to tell a story of rain droplets and water dripping. I was inspired by the weather to begin with and how it said it was suppose to rain and then went and played with the water tap at home to see how it comes out. Watercolour has a mind of its own in some ways so it was hard to capture the detailing I wanted but I guess in that way it makes it more realistic in that we can’t control really how water moves. I think with more practice and experimenting my watercolour skills could increase.
Day Fourteen
I used for this image black pen to keep the drawing message simple. I was just sitting and thinking when I thought to myself how everyday people will put on the mask that suits whatever they are doing. I think not drawing the whole table and leaving objects not completely seen helps add to the drawings message. Even though there is only one still image, this one image can tell a story so well. I found it more difficult to draw this image with pen, as there less places to hide and getting the strokes right was difficult to achieve
Day Fifteen
Eyes and how they can create a story within themselves once again inspired me. What triggered this was how I had been working with images that didn’t show emotion in the face and wanted to contrast how emotion in a face especially the eyes can tell a thousand stories. I used charcoal to draw the face. I have not really used charcoal so it was a learning curve for myself. I had to continually start over, as I was not happy with the outcome of my drawings. As a first attempt in using charcoal I am happy with the outcome. I know that I could continuously keep working on the face to capture the man’s eyes even better. I have included some of my attempts before this final result to show the differences between the eyes.
