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Exercise 10

"Accept Mistakes; Let it (ideas) flow & Hair is Pretty" - My philosophy for drawing.

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Exercise 8

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Exercise 5

Tried various forms of caricature, including a chibi and emulating a character from Adventure Time

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Exercise 2

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Exercise 7

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Two of the three comics here were produced in Perth and sold at Supanova in Artist Alley, where tables can be rented at low cost for non-commercial writers and artists to sell their wares and promote themselves.

These are primarily 24 Hour Comics, which are 24-page comics written and produced in a solid 24 hour period. The third, Skull Panda in Love, is a spin-off series from the webcomic Sam and Fuzzy.

They are A5 sized (except for Skull Panda - which is a little smaller) with roughly 125gsm pages and (mostly) gloss covers of a higher gsm. They are held together with staples.

Each comic leaves the front or back page with enough room to do a custom drawing and signature for purchasers. In the case of Skull Panda in Love, this edition cost a little more. The heart at the front was also hand-coloured. This is a cheap but effective method of producing independent comics on a physical media. Often these comics are also available to read online.

The Perth comics use the endpages to give information about themselves and the premise for the comics.

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The name Stockholm comes from Stockholm Syndrome, a psychological disorder where hostages wind up with positive feelings for their captors, sometimes even coming to love them.

One of the goals in the comic was to portray the difference between the mortal world where Ida comes from, and the Fairy world she is transported to. This is achieved primarily through line and colour. The mortal realm, and Ida herself, is dark and thick-lined. People and objects from the mortal realm are shaded with lines.

The Fairy-King Uberon and his world are brightly (somewhat tackily) coloured. The lines are thin, aiming to convey that they are not quite as real as Ida is.

Scenes with Uberon are based heavily on anime/manga. This is another point of contrast between him and Ida, who has aesthetic origins in European plate etching. He's introduced smiling, with soft colours that show that Ida is enamoured by Uberon's prettiness. This changes when he kisses her and infers he's interested in more. The borders start to close in and everything gets darker.

Uberon's voice is depicted in a romantic pink on black, an indication that he's not all sweetness and light. When he speaks, there's an ornate border. When he's thinking that border is gone.

One of the trickiest panels was the throne room panel. This is the first time any scenery is shown and it is a stark difference. But it was important because the location she wakes up in is important to establish.

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As the pages stand today. Need to make them link better.

#Assignment 2 #assessment 2 #comic #progress

Comics that I read

A form of research is probably the web comics I read weekly. There are a lot of them, but I'll list the ones that best emulate the kind of comic I've created.

Gunnerkrigg Court

by Tom Siddell

Namesake

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Writing), Isabelle Melancon (Illustration)

Ava's Demon

by Michelle Czajkowski

Nimona

by Noelle Stevenson

Unsounded

by Ashley Cope

Blindsprings

by Kadi Fedoruk

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To create these final images, the A6 drafts were scanned at a high dpi and blown up to A4 size. The opacity was lowered and they were printed to use as templates to draw over.

Page 6 did not work in a larger size, so it was shrunk and added to the then-page 7.

I've included panel redraws for pages 3 and 6/7 to display the difference.

Two different line widths are being used to portray the difference between the mortal girl and the immortal man.

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Comic - Drafts 1&2

An A6-sized, 12-page booklet was mocked up to plot the pages. There were originally 16 pages planned, however as the pages were drawn, the layouts naturally changed. Panels were moved, added and the end of the original story was cut.

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Assignment 2 - Concept

The concept for Assignment Two's story came in the form of lyrics. It was the style of Matryoshka's film clip that was initially attractive, and the goal (at this stage) is to replicate the aesthetics of the film clip. With that intention in mind, the translated lyrics were read in the hopes of extracting a story from them. The current narrative comes from these sections of lyrics:

"A package sung from a headache,

Time may pass but the hands are at 4

Don't tell anyone;

The world will turn upside down"

"Ah, I feel broken apart

Throw out all your memories too,

Ah, how I want to know,

To the deep down..."

"Clap your hands, not entirely childish,

And watch, to this purposefully-crazed tune

Certainly, I don't care either way

The warmth of the world is melting away"

"You and me, rendezvous?

Rendezvous? Rendezvous?

Oh, or out on a hopping adventure?"

The story that these lyrics, along with the music itself, told of a regular girl brought into a different, crazed reality in an (to make a tired comparison) Alice-in-Wonderland scenario. There she would be tossed around to the whims of a mirror-like fairy girl and come back changed, with colours in her eyes.

This concept was difficult to translate into a proper narrative, especially with "sound" being an important factor of the assignment.

The next fairy scenario considered was one based in folklore. Sometimes fairies would take children, or men or women (the latter for lovers) against their will, never to return. So the girl's captor became a fairy king, who had sent a bottle into the mortal realm waiting to be found by a suitable female. When the girl finds the bottle, she triggers it and a portal is opened, sweeping her away to his kingdom.

In this first draft, the girl is saved from her seduction by the mirror-fairy in the first concept. The frame limitations caused this ending to be scrapped and as of chapter's end, the girl is trapped with him forever. Perhaps she is saved in the sequel?

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The elfin knight stands on yon hill He blows his horn both loud and shrill He stands so proud and he stands so still

Blow winds blow my bonnie o Blow winds blow my bonnie Blow winds blow my bonnie o Blow winds blow my bonnie If I had the knight that stands on yon mound My true love then surely I have found Down to the church then soon we will be bound

Blow winds blow my bonnie o Blow winds blow my bonnie Blow winds blow my bonnie o Blow winds blow my bonnie He'll make me a dress with seams of fine thread Make me a garland of flowers for my head Down to the church then away we'll go to bed

Blow winds blow my bonnie o Blow winds blow my bonnie Blow winds blow my bonnie o Blow winds blow my bonnie The elfin knight stands on yon hill Blowin' his horn both loud and shrill He stands so proud and he stands so still

Blow winds blow my bonnie o Blow winds blow my bonnie Blow winds blow my bonnie o Blow winds blow my bonnie Blow winds blow my bonnie o Blow winds blow my bonnie

The Elfin Knight

Kate Rusby

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Where dips the rocky highland

Of Sleuth Wood in the lake

There lies a leafy island

Where flapping herons wake

The drowsy water-rats

There we've hid our faery vats

Full of berries

And of reddest stolen cherries

[Chorus:]

Come away, O human child

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand

For the world's more full of weeping

Than you can understand.

Where the wave of moonlight glosses

The dim grey sands with light

By far off furthest Rosses

We foot it all the night

Weaving olden dances

Mingling hands and mingling glances

Till the moon has taken flight

To and fro we leap

And chase the frothy bubbles

Whilst the world is full of troubles

And is anxious in its sleep.

[Chorus]

Where the wandering water gushes

From the hills above Glen-Car

In pools among the rushes

That scarce could bathe a star

We seek for slumbering trout

And whispering in their ears

Give them unquiet dreams

Leaning softly out

From ferns that drop their tears

Over the young streams

[Chorus]

Away with us he's going

The solemn-eyed

He'll hear no more the lowing

Of the calves on the warm hillside

Or the kettle on the hob

Sing peace into his breast

Or see the brown mice bob

Round and round the oatmeal chest.

[Chorus]

For he comes, the human child

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand

For the world's more full of weeping

Than you can understand.

Stolen Child

Loreena McKennitt

#assessment 2 #assignment 2 #comic #reference #lyrics

Today again a beautiful woman

comes to see me

That smiling you will become my new wife

A forbidden deal with the devil,

this power placed in my hands

All the women that look at me

fall enchanted

----

(Megurine Luka - Chorus)

With the power to charm women

(Hatsune Miku - Chorus)

The man, to the basement of the mansion where he lives alone

(Megurine Luka - Chorus)

Brings one by one the women he likes

(Hatsune Miku - Chorus)

Building up his harem

(Chorus)

The taste of libido that hid poison

the pleasure of the blade that cut

Blood and sweat mixed together

turn before long into drops of purple

Once the clothes come off

there's no return to reality

----

My old portraits were burned;

I abandoned my past self

I want to forget that face

that everyone laughed at and ridiculed

I kiss a lovely girl

as I pull her into an embrace

She was the childhood friend

that had made a fool out of me

----

(GUMI - Chorus)

From a certain day on, the woman from all over the country

(MEIKO - Chorus)

One by one, they become lost without notice

(GUMI - Chorus)

Some lost their wives; some lost their daughters

(MEIKO - Chorus)

And didn't know what to do

(Chorus)

The tone of libido dyed in darkness;

an infinite passion without stop

Illusions, the understanding of everything;

I am no longer a person

Doing depravities in the defiance of God

this is the night of madness I wished for

----

Today again a beautiful lady

comes to me

Come into my embrace,

let's dance in my harem

After you approach me,

I hold you close with a smile; in that instant

Suddenly there is a sharp pain

and blood dyes my chest

A young person that searched for a lost love

Found out her whereabouts: the mansion where the devil dwelled

The young man disguised as a woman approached the devil

And stabbed him in the chest with a blade

----

(Chorus)

Pierced by a blade that hid poison,

I collapsed in that place

Blood and sweat mixed together

are turned before long into drops of purple

My arts broken,

the women all came to their senses and fled the mansion

The last one that left the mansion

looked at me for just a second

It was my childhood friend... Wait!

I haven't told you yet that I love you

The Lunacy of Duke Venomania (ヴェノマニア公の狂気)

Akuno-P (Music, Lyrics)

Suzunosuke (illust)

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One, two, three, four!

A message I've thought much too much about,

Maybe it'll reach somebody, who can say?

Certainly, I've always been this way,

A patched up, crazy matryoshka

A package sung from a headache

Time may pass, but the hands are at 4

Don't tell anyone;

The world will turn upside down

Ah, I feel broken apart

Throw out all your memories, too

Ah, how I want to know,

To the deep down...

Um, well...

If you please, dance more and more

Kalinka? Malinka?

Just play the chord

What should I do about such feelings?

Can't you tell me? Just a little?

Loud and clear, 524

Freud? Keloid?

Just hit the key

Everything, all's to be laughed at

Hurry, dance, with all your foolishness

Clap your hands, not entirely childish,

And watch, to this purposefully-crazed tune

Certainly, I don't care either way

The warmth of the world is melting away

You and me, rendezvous? Rendezvous? Rendezvous?

Oh, or out on a hopping adventure?

With a crooked gait, one-two, one-two

Ah, I'm ready to burst out;

Catch every part of me

Ah, with both your hands,

Catch me for me

Um, well...

Listen a little - it's something important

Kalinka? Malinka?

Just pinch my cheek

It's just that I can't control myself

Should we do more fantastic things?

Pain, hurt, but no, don't cry

Parade? Marade?

Just clap some more

Wait, you say, wait, wait

Before we drop to just one...

You and me, rendezvous?

Rendezvous? Rendezvous?

Oh, or out on a hopping adventure?

With a crooked gait, one-two, one-two

Down with a sickness?

Show me your song!

See how today...

I'm still a patched up, crazy matryoshka!

If you please, dance more and more

Kalinka? Malinka?

Just play the chord

What should I do about such feelings?

Can't you tell me? Just a little?

Loud and clear, 524

Freud? Keloid?

Just hit the key

Everything, all's to be laughed at

Hurry, and dance no longer!

Smooch, smooch...

Matryoshka (マトリョシカ)

by Hachi

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