book process 3

book process 2

book process

digital blob

progress

This was my initial sketches for my character. I from here decided to go with a very simplified character so the viewer would not be distracted by the narrator and focus more on the information being displayed.

I then decided to draw this character in many different ways. I showed some facial expressions he could have and how he could look in different positions.

I then tried different rendering methods such as pen, marker, ink, colored pencil, and water color. I decided I loved the look of water color mixed with pen outline.

Today in class I decided that I did not like my original character too much. I felt he wasnt totally where I wanted him to be so I did some in class experimenting. Such as this above.

Then I came up with this sort of blob with crooked eyes. Everyone seemed to enjoy his character. So I decided to go with this one and render him more.

These are some different color schemes I was playing with. I think I will be going with the red colored one or possibly the orange and yellow mix.

Since I am doing a comic book I am experimenting making a new communication model to match my book. This is what I have so far.

before class progress...

My first stop in this project was doing some research...

My first source of resource was the understanding comics book by Scott McCloud. This book came in very handy for me on many levels. Not only does it explain the thought behind a narrative. It also made me realize this is how I wanted to set up my narrative for my book. Having a comic narrator tell you information scene by scene is more interesting to read even if it is text book information.

VISUAL:

this was simply for the character idea. If I were to design myself as a cartoon what would I look like?

This is the more traditional comic look. I really like the colors used in this strip and could see my comic taking on this rendering style.

I chose this visual for the animal characters. My narrator could be an animal. Sometimes they are more "cute" or funny to look at.

Again for the thought of what I would look like as a cartoon.

At first I thought I would come up with the design of this book. Then I realized I cannot really do that without a narrative to the story. So I have started writing the narrative for my comic book. I have also been doing a bunch of visual research and inspiration

n. I have a few questions remaining though before I began to design my actual book.

Sketched comic look V.S. All vector

Black and White V.S. color

Animal characters V.S. human

Myself as a cartoon V.S. a super hero for the comic theme

My Script...So far.

- Hi I am _____.

- We as humans interact with other people everyday.

- Our world is made up of several systems. It can be anything from the Solar system to our digestive systems.

- But have you ever thought of the way we interact or communicate as a system?

- Well… probably not, but I am going to explain the system of communication to you.

- Everything starts with a sender. The sender is the one with the thought or message.

- The sender wants to say, think, or express some thing or idea.

- This idea comes from what the sender believes or thinks. The sender is the author of this thought.

- For example in the child hood game of telephone, the sender would be the person starting the message.

-Or in the case of this book, I am the sender sending a message to you!

-Pretty simple right?

-RIGHT!

-Ok moving on…

- The next step would be the message.

- This is the actual content that the sender is sending out.

- It can be verbal or non verbal.

- It provides information, and is dependent on the context it is put in.

- It is a source to the person who will be receiving it.

- In our society today it can take many forms, which comes in channels.

- Referring back to the game of telephone, this would be what was whispered and passed around in the circle.

- In the context of this book it is anything I am telling you.

- Channels are the different forms the message can take.

- It acts as a transmitter used to convey the information from the sender.

- This can be many different things such as a telephone, computer, t.v., letter, even music.

- It would take a whole book just to list the different forms this could take.

- The people passing the message from ear to ear in the game of telephone act as a channel.

- The pages of this book are a channel to give the message to the reader.

- Do you get it?

- Noise is anything that can interrupt the message along the way.

- It can often impact the way we perceive the message and could possible alter the intent of the original message.

- Noise in the game of telephone could be the whispering , which may be too quiet to hear.

- It could even be music playing too loudly in the background.

- Noise while reading this book could be you cannot see well, or maybe the lighting in the room is too dark.

- Or maybe I am just boring you and you are getting tired.

- WAKE UP!

- The message has almost reached is point!

- The person receiving this message is, of course, the receiver.

- They then decode and interpret the message and evaluate their own idea or thought.

- In the case of telephone this is the last person in the circle who hears the message.

- In the case of this book, it’s you silly!

- Now quick evaluate what you are reading. Because it is time for feedback

- Feedback is what was processed from the message and gets sent back to the sender.

- Many systems have obvious input and output.

- In the case of the game telephone the feedback is what the last person says what they thought was heard.

- In the case of this book, it is what you are getting out of it.

- It could also be criticism on the book from others.

commincation model: diagram

For My diagram I made the sender be point a and the receiver point b. The message is red line that travels through channels to get to point b. The feedback is where the white and dark grey overlap. This is because feedback is the two merging together. I feel as though noise happens overall of this process so I made lines arcing over the entire graph to show noise taking over the scene.

final Card/response

Card 2:

by Katie Barnes

Card 3:

card trials

my poster!

postcard ideas

I want to do something along these lines but I want to take my own photos. This idea makes the viewer think of all the people who were sitting on that same exact bench at one time. Sure you could think that they were just normal nice people, but at one time there had to of been someone bad on that bench. To me this makes a bench a negative thing because it is unknown. It is a mystery. Were they clean people? Did they have germs that could lead to a disease? Or could it of been someone who was morally bad. Was it a murderer, robber, or even a sex offender? Ya their values would not necessarily pass on to you, but the thought that they were in that exact place is eerie. This question has dark undertones and I want to capture the mystery of the bench in my photos I plan to take.

Park Bench

Words:

- rest

- pigeons

- newspaper

- break

- gum

- wood

- hard

- old ladies

- bums

- reading

- sky

- trees

- leaves

- relax

- watchful

- rusty

- creaky

- personal space

- dirt

- weathered

- splinter

- grime

- germs

- impression

- a bed to some

- perch

- flop

- weight off

- situated

- seat

- bottom

A park bench holds many stories. It hears and sees the lives of many people. Yet, it cannot repeat these stories to anyone, therefor it is a place of comfort for people. It can be a place to read, relax and watch your children, or it can be a bed to someone who's home is the outdoors. It can be a sanctuary in a way... It can also be a place filled with germs and disease waiting to take over the next person who sits on it. Think of all the bottoms who have sat in your seat and what the person sitting there before you was like. To me a park bench is a thing of mystery. Who has sat here before you? Were they just like you, someone just needing to rest on their walk? Or were they someone who had the day planned to sit there all day and people watch. Someone may have spent the night where you were just siting to relax. Hmmmm......

final poster for Paralympics

My final poster I feel shows depth and plays with elements coming at the viewer. My original poster was pathos, so I had to iterate on logos and ethos. I decided to go this route because I felt I had more elements to work with. I wanted the idea of tickets to be flowing out of the earth to show that they are traveling or moving. This would give the idea of tickets being sold and distributed around the world. The final colors I chose were more earth tone and simple than the ones I was originally working with. The original color palette felt more juvenile, this feels more sophisticated to me. I also decided to make the 200o sydney paralympics more of its own logo element verses just straight type. I feel it makes it more visually interesting. Overall I am happy with how this turned out, and I feel it was a great way to fully understand and explore modes of appeal.

in class process 2

I need help in deciding a color scheme for this poster. Any comments would be appreciated!:)

visual research

over the weekend I researched some constructivism art because I was told my piece was very similar to the style. Now that I have done some visual research I am going to try to push this idea even more. I really enjoy the style.