Process Portfolio

Calin Firlit's Process Portfolio for Visualizing and Depicting

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Two page spread of my Single Image Story in context. 

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Final draft of my Single Image Story, inspired by The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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First draft of my Single Image Story.

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Images that inspired me in creating my Single Image Story.

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Refined sketches for the Single Image Story project, inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck.

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Thumbnail sketches for the Single Image Story project, illustrating ideas and scenes from The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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Final infographic for Organizing Information.

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Reference photos I took for the Organizing Information project.

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Sketches for the Organizing Information project.

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One of my sources for the Organizing Information project.

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One of my sources for the Organizing Information project.

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One of my sources for the Organizing Information project.

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One of my sources for the Organizing Information project.

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This is the final product I created using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator! I used my tablet to trace my drawings, and then added texture, arrows and text. I was able to shift my drawings around on the computer to create a composition that made more sense than the composition I initially had in my drawings. I love working digitally because it’s easier for me to move things around and see what fits the best with the story I’m trying to tell. 

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From my initial concept, my classmates’ suggestions, and my own research, I was able to come up with some initial sketches and then more refined sketches that I was able to take into photoshop to create my final digital image. 

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While we were critiquing the initial sketches and ideas that we had for this project, someone suggested to me that I should make my main character a monkey to go along with the theme of banana milkshakes, and make the narrative more kid friendly. Because I did not have access to any monkeys off hand, I found a website called Pixabay that offers fair use stock images. I looked at images of many different types of monkeys doing many different things so I could get a sense for how they move and what I wanted my character to look like. All the different types of monkeys I found came in handy for my final panel where I depicted my main character drinking milkshakes with all of his friends!

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I took several reference photos to work from. I didn’t have all of the ingredients on hand at my house, so I had to get creative. For example, I took a picture of me holding shampoo bottle to try to get the general idea of how to draw someone pouring milk and used a box of corn meal to get the shape of the ice cream container that I actually wanted (as opposed to the shape of the ice cream container I had on hand).