Illustration visual narrative - Webcomic
Week 11 - Week 14
Khansa Raudlatus Syahiidah / 0374511
Illustration and Visual Narrative
Bachelors of Design (Honours) in Creative Media
Task 4 : Webcomic
Table of contents :
1. Lectures
2. Instructions
3. Process work
3.1 Research
3.2 Ideation
3.3 Final outcome
4. feedback
5. Reflection
1. LECTURES
Week 11 :
Introduction to task 4 : Webcomic
Week 12 :
Online class
Week 13 :
During week 13 of our class, Mr. Hafiz gave us options
of schedules we could come for a face to face consultation. He went around
to every students and gave feedbacks for improvements.
Week 14 :
Continue with our work and feedbacks from Mr. Hafiz
2. INSTRUCTIONS
Assignment Requirements
- Comic Cover: Design a cover that represents your interpretation of The Monkey’s Paw, including an illustrated masthead created in Illustrator. You may use Photoshop to manipulate textures and images for a surreal effect inspired by Sandman covers or refer to “surrealistic adobe illustrator artwork” Include subtle animations if desired to create a haunting atmosphere.
- One-Page Comic: Translate a selected part of the story into a single-page, animated webcomic with at least 3 panels animated using GIFs in Google Slides. Focus on panel-to-panel transitions (e.g., moment-to-moment, action-to-action, subject-to-subject) to maintain suspense and continuity.
Format: Portrait orientation for phone or tablet display. Assemble all elements in Google Slides for presentation
3. PROCESS WORK
3.1 Research :
3.2 Ideation :
Comic sketch :
First sketch
Second sketch
Third sketch
Poster sketch :
Digitization :
On my first digitization, as you can see, I rely too much on the pen tool which was not that flexible at all. However, after I discovered the brush tool, I started using that for my outline.
After I have finalized my comic, I continued to start animating it. As we were instructed to animate 3 panels, I chose 2 text and 1 light flickering. I started by copy and pasting them multiple times in a new artboard.
For my comic cover, I went on with the idea of a spotlight to show the Monkey's paw, and make the others a silhouette.
3.3 Final outcome :
Comic :
Animation :
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iduhfJ7OdGbRj2RAbkd55JYFCLJksUKQt4mLp-S8fOY/edit?usp=sharing
4. FEEDBACK
Week 11 :
General feedback : -
Personal feedback : -
Week 12 :
General feedback : -
Personal feedback : My sketch was fine but there's too much going on in one page. Also, try to only do 60 % of what I have sketch and pick certain panels to develop and get rid of.
Week 13 :
General feedback : Do not add to many panels for a one page comic. when picking scene from the story, try creating a sketch using the reference like a scene to scene or action to action and more other.
Personal feedback : Reduce my panels and shorten the scene of the story I pick. I chose a certain parts of the story but resulting in making many jumps in the comic sketch.
Week 14 :
General feedback : -
Personal feedback : -
Week 15 :
General feedback : -
Personal feedback : -
Other :
General feedback :
Personal feedback : For the comic cover with the silhouettes ideas was fine. My sketch progress on the other hand could have improved the composition better with the reference in framed ink as a compositional guide.
5. REFLECTION
Experience :
During the whole process of working on this project, I have learned many things. During the very beginning of this task, I was very clueless on how to transfer my sketch digitally. I realize so much on the pen tool that IT confuses me even more. But after talking with my friend, I started to know the use of brush in AI, especially that you can also make it look like a sketch. For the animation part, it was surprisingly easy and entertaining. I thought I had fully forgotten how to import files to make an animation in Photoshop. But it turns out that I remember it clearly.
Observations :
It is always surprising to me that we tend to think that a task may be easier than we have imagined. I would fully say that this task was simple, however, after much thought, the feedbacks Mr. Hafiz always remind us in showing our progression truly helps. I learned that its better to do things little by little with much time then rushing things all at once.
Findings :
From everything I have mentioned on the above, I really did enjoy this task, I did rush doing this and therefore, i want to take it as a habit I should gradually get rid of. Having to work thigs on a calmer pace is far better than starting on a projects when the due date is near. Overall, This subject truly have taught me many things.
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