Final Project: All Done!

December 8th, 2013.  8:00-11:19PM

My final project is all finished.  I now have three watercolor illustrations for The Snow Queen and an accompanying narrative mounted on bristol board!

This took a little longer than I thought, but it was fun enough that I didn't mind.  I am not an expert watercolor artist but I am reasonable happy with the way these look and I feel like I've become a little more practiced in this media.

I had been considering inking the drawings as some of the colors were mucky or washed out.  But I really didn't want to to that, so I compromised and outlined certain parts of the drawings using an old, almost dried up Copic liner.  It looks great this way, because the colors don't look too flat against the ink.

The only thing that slightly bothers me is my short "adaptation" of the story, because I had to fit it into a small space and so it is very quick and doesn't totally capture the spirit of it.  And some of the grammar is off because of the permanence of ink.

Overall I think it looks pretty nice.

End Of Class Update

So far, I have everything sketched, and one square is completely watercolored.  Over the weekend, I need to finish coloring and most likely go over everything with ink so it looks less washed out.  I think it will be awesome. Yeah! Party on! And by party I mean watercolor, because I do not go to parties.

December 4th, 2013.  8:35 AM.

Quick little update before I start working for today.

Last night I worked from 11:00 to 1:00 getting a couple of the sketches done.  Its amazing how long it can take to figure out exactly what an illustration should look like, especially one so small.  But I still think I can do it.

So today in class I think I will finish the sketches, or just watercolor the ones I have, then deal with whatever is left over the weekend.  It should not be too much.

Final Project Update

December 2, 2013.  10:54 AM.

So, I have decided to draw and watercolor 3-5 illustrations for The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.

Right now I have read the story and have decided on a few scenes to do.  I've also made some sketches of the characters.  I'm going to prep some sketches before class on Wednesday because I didn't do quite as much in class today as I would have liked.

Brainstorming: Final Project

November 25, 2013.  10:16 AM

For my final project I want to do another comic/story type thing, possibly without words.  I'm not sure what it will be about.

I almost sort of want to take a song and listen to it and then think really hard about what it makes me imagine and then write a story based on that.  Actually that sounds pretty freaking sweet.  I could write fairy tales.

Maybe Candlelight by Relient K.  That's been one of my favorite songs for a long time and it always hits me with really pretty images.

I also really like the song Savannah from the same album.

Maybe it won't be a comic at all, but a series of small watercolors.  I just bought some really nice brushes and stuff...

I saw this illustration on Tumblr the other day and really liked it.  I think it's worth remembering.

by Tinasol

Now I'm going to go to the library to look at Chris Weir (forgive me if I spelled that wrong.)

The Narrative is Finished!

November 22, 2013.  8:15 - 9:37 PM.

After many hours of sketching, inking, and fooling around in Photoshop and iMovie, my narrative project is finally done!

Look at these cuties, how can they even exist?

I'm really glad I was able to draw this in the end, because otherwise I have no idea how things would have worked out.  The sheer number of bunnies I had to draw for this to come together was staggering and I wasn't sure I could endure it at times. But I did, and it looks pretty dang sweet if I do say so myself.  Not as funny or detailed as the comic version, but good.

So. Many. Bunnies.

There is actually very little Photoshop aside from text and minor alterations of the drawings, for clarity.  That might not go over so well, which is my fault.  But in any case I'm happy with this.  I got what I put into it, which was a substantial amount of effort.

iMovie Narrative Project

November 14th, 2013.  4:00-5:14 PM.

I just submitted my final animatic, complete with human parents rather than bunnies.

I love the animatic, but I'm not sure how the actual narrative is going to come together.  When the characters were all bunnies, it didn't seem like such a challenge to photoshop it all.  But now that they are people, I'm afraid it's going to look too goofy for the heartwarming tone I want.

 I want to use old Victorian fashion sketches as the characters, but that idea quickly falls apart when I remember the fact that I will have to photoshop a pregnant belly, glasses, and other things on top of them, which will undoubtedly look awkward.  And the whole thing will look stiff because if I use multiple poses for each character, I will have to use separate sketches that look like different people.  That would be super confusing.

I'm thinking I might just make this into more of a photography project because I really don't know how I'm supposed to pull this off in photoshop without it looking insanely tacky.