Week 5 – Week 7 Project One Illustration and Visual Narrative : That (Decisive) Moment

October 18, 2017

Week 5 – Week 7 Project One Illustration and Visual Narrative : That (Decisive) Moment

28/09/2017 Week 5 - Week 7
Wynne Pankusya [0333258]
Illustration and Visual Narrative
Project

Lecture Notes

Editorial illustration is typically a type of work that has a deep history in political satire, especially though extends beyond the world of politics. Newspapers and magazines print illustrations alongside their articles to illuminate some element of the concepts for the reader. For this assignment, you must find a related article/story that discuss Urban Legends. The legends maybe local or international.

There are 3 Part Act which consist The beginning, Middle and Ending.

Img.1 3 Part Act

The beginning (The Setup) is the first turning point. At the beginning of a narrative, the “exposition” is the author providing some background information to the audience about the plot, characters’ histories, setting and theme.

The Middle (The Confrontation) is the second turning point. Which is the "rising action", typically depicts the characters attempt to resolve the problem. Most of the time to find themselves even worst off. Some cases because they don't have the skill to deal with the problem. This leads to character development.

The Ending (The Resolution) is the third turning point. It's the scene or sequence in which the main tensions of the story are brought to their most intense point. The dramatic question answered, leaving the character with a new sense of who they really are after the conflict has been resolved.

Img.1.2 5 Act Strutcure

The typical workflow for this would be :

1. Spider Diagra / Mind Maps / Brainstorming

2. Mood boards / Concept boards

3. Sketches and Conceptualization

4. Production

5. Presentation

Instruction

Duration of Assignment:

Week 5 – Week 7

The Brief:

Editorial illustration is typically a type of work has a deep history in political satire, especially though extends beyond the world of politics. Every day, newspapers and magazines print illustrations alongside their articles to illuminate some element of the concepts for the reader. For this assignment, you must find a related article/story that discuss Urban Legends. The legends maybe local or international. Example:

https://coconuts.co/kl/features/creepiest-malaysian-urban-legends-part-one/

Your task is to develop an animated (limited) illustration for an editorial to represent the chosen text. Examples as shown in class. You are to interpret the narratives decisive moment or the climax of the narrative.

You have 2 weeks, ensure that you plan your time wisely. Tutorials will be done in a smaller group and tutorials slots will be made available online.

The Outcome:

Interpret a passage of text (story); illustrate the decisive moment (climax).
The end product must be animated (limited animation).
You Must use Adobe Illustrator to create the assets and you may animate it in Adobe Photoshop.
The outcome must be portrait.

Research keywords:

Limited animation, animated editorial illustration, urban legends, narrative structure.

Week 5

Session 1:

L: Narrative Structure

P: Story research

T: Research and Mood boards

Session 2:

T: Sketches

T: Storyboards

Week 6

Session 3:

P: Assets in Illustrator

Session 4:

P: Animating in Photoshop

Week 7

Session 5:

P: Crit session

Tutorial

Before we start the project, we need to exercise again our ability to trace with Adobe Illustrator. It's the same as the pear exercise before in vormator elements. The goal is to create a illustration based on the real picture. And we also need to trace the shadows just like the reference picture. This exercise is a Chiaroscuro Exercise.

Img.1 The picture

Img.1.2 How the result suppose to look like

Img.1.3 My result

Img.1.4 Outline

Sir Hafiz also mentioned about how grain effect would be a better choice to make an art deco (giving it a vintage effect).

Exercise

The first step is to make a mindmap based on the urban legend that we have found. This mindmap is crucial that it's supposed to make everything more organized and will make more ideas pop out. We are supposed to show the "Decisive Moment" which is the turning point (climax) of the narrative.

My Urban Legend :

Kuchisake-Onna (Slit-Mouthed Woman)

As the story goes, a beautiful woman named Kuchisake was married to a man who suspected her of being unfaithful - and he was right. Kuchisake had fallen for another man, and was planning to leave her husband. Flying into a jealous rage, her husband knocked Kuchisake unconscious and tied her up. When she woke, he threatened to kill her if she left him, and used a large pair of scissors to slice her face into a permanent smile.

Img.1 Mind Map

Img.1.2 References

If we're done with the mindmap and artboards, we need to create the sketch for the art deco. The sketch doesn't need to be in art deco.

Img.1.3 First Sketch

Before the actual sketch I supposed to divide it using rule of thirds thus Sir Hafiz made it for me as a reference.

Img.1.4

Img.1.5 Firstly I trace the sketch that I've made

Img.1.6 I'm using my art deco references as the colour mood for this illustration

Img.1.7 Final result

After showing the final result, Sir Hafiz said that it doesn't really show foreground, midground and background. After showing some art deco references, Sir hafiz create a simple sketch for me.

Img.2 Sketch by Sir Hafiz

Thus I ended up using the sketch as my reference for the new art deco illustration. I found some pictures as my artdeco reference (also for the colour palette).