Illustration Year 2

✨Blog to exhibit my year 2 Illustration work✨

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I looked at interesting concepts of portraying my character through more of an abstract medium. These are some interesting book covers I looked at.

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First image: Fred Dauzat

Second image: Jez Burrows

Third image: Alex Perez

Fourth image: Doe Eyed

I also researched poster ideas and found that the ones I was most drawn to were the ones with a singular image and simple background. This is because your attention is all drawn to the singular image, therefore making it more impactful. Therefore, to make my poster work from 3 metres away as specified in the brief I aim to have one sole image for the viewer to focus on in order to make it stand out and catch people’s eyes.

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Top image: John Kilburn

Bottom image: Alice Potter

When researching inspiration for how to present my booklet I came across these two illustrated booklets by the artists above. With both I really liked their use of ‘reflection’ in some sense. With the first image, although it is the two different covers, I felt like it could be a really effective double spread due to the use of mirroring and contrast in colour. With the second booklet example, it is not exact mirroring, but I find the similarities in the two cats presented is what makes it work and makes the two different images of the cats work as a full piece. I also like the use of smaller illustrations of the same nature surrounding the cats as in my opinion it marries the two pages together.

I want to be able to do the same with my booklet and make the double spread work as a whole image as well as two separate images and I feel like mirroring could be an effective way of achieving this.

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As well as considering the contents of my booklet and poster I have been looking at the layout and how it all works together. To see how the finished booklet will be laid out like I made a simple mock up.

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Mr Whiskers is also key to The Weird Girl's character as he is her companion and she is never seen without him. Therefore I also want to include him in the booklet. I drew from the gif above and included text to begin thinking about combining text and imagery for my final outcome. I drew this piece in white pencil on black card and enjoyed drawing in reverse (making up the piece through only colouring the highlighted parts and leaving out the shadow).

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I want to include runes within my piece due to The Weird Girl's connection with predicting the future and her mystical nature. I feel like including runes in my work will help indicate her personality and interest in spirituality.

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I worked on the previous drawing digitally and found I was able to give it a more creepy and eerie feel. I was also able to make it more bold and eye-catching than my previous biro sketch.

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I thought a good beginning place would be to dissect what where the prominent features that my character possesses. For my final poster/booklet I want to do the Weird Girl in my own style and to do this I need to know what her most prominent features are. In my opinion her most important features that make her character recognisable are her: -large eyes -short fringe -lack of eyebrows -heart shaped face

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Introduction to The Weird Girl:

-She is aged around 10-12 -She is a self proclaimed psychic -She has a pet cat called Mr Whiskers who she shares unblinking eyes with Inspirations: -The girl who just stares by Tim Burton -She resembles a child version of Kim Bogg from Edward Scissorhands Quotes: -'If Mr Whiskers dreams about you, it means something big is going to happen.' -'One day you'll dream about me won't you kitty?' -'Mr Whiskers had a dream about you last night.'

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I decided I wanted to focus on The Weird Girl for my Summer Project. Although I liked the playfullness of the trick or treaters, the gambling imagery surrounding Oogie Boogie and the story behind Coraline I decided to focus on the Weird Girl. I chose her because of the mystery surrounding her and how I could manipulate this to portay however I wanted. Although, in saying that she still has key features that make her recognisable. With this chatacter in particular I feel there is more than just appearance that makes her identity so unique.

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Some quick sketches of a few of Tim Burton’s characters made while watching the films. I wanted to sketch each of them while watching the films they were included in to try and get a sense of their character into the sketch.

(Own art)

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All of Tim Burtons characters are very striking because he places emphasis on certain features to enhance them e.g. Eyes, noses, stick thin bodies Due to his style you get a true feeling for his characters even without hearing or seeing them move and with a limited colour palette.

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Summer Project: Beginnings

When considering what character to focus on I wanted to make sure I picked a character with a big personality. Because I am only able to use black and white I wanted to pick a character that I could portray without using colour and would still be bold/striking. I started looking into Tim Burtons characters as the majority of his work is very monochromatic but you still get a sense of character through the way they carry themselves and their features.

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Summer Project 2017