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Poster Task

Alongside portfolio slides, I need to make a poster. This utilising my 2 outcomes. So in order to sort this in my brain, I thought that I could just make the door in real life replace the door in the comic.

However, due to my door being transparent, it is generally more difficult to photoshop out and then into files. So, in order to fix this, I photoshopped the door and words out of my comic, and then printed it and captured the comic and the door in the same frame.

Then, after making this digital, I reinforced the lines; giving them a thicker border, and making the centre "key sound" word, more vibrant.

Then, with a colour burn layer, I made the basic reflections of the door look far more vibrant. As well as adding some purple chunks to compliment the fog.

Making the edges often sharper allowed for the audience to visualise the difference better.

Finally, I added the tingtizh text in a new, sharp, format. Which I was extremely happy with, reminding me of the lettering of JoJo's Bizarre adventure.

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Door Project - A look to the past

The project's large scope allows for a varied range of designs and cases. The majority chose to make a door out of wood and oven-bake clay. Making something that works in a unique setting.

To take 2 doors from the same point, you have my door pre-base, and my friend Jack's door, which is slightly more traditional. Jacks definitely looks more like a door, however in the purview of my story, it is clear that it is a door.

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Negative Space Study

Often you can see negative space art made in a vacuum, making odd shapes in their place, this is not what I am wishing to do. I am wishing to make those odd shapes into foliage and things that fit the scene more.

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Liquid Doors?

My door for the door project aims to mimic liquid so that I can get a better use out of the Perspex medium. The clear plastic allowed for shaping well.

After a while of rummaging around on the internet, I found a material called "Camel Glass" which aims to do the exact opposite of what I was doing, it is using it's opaqueness and colour in order to mimic liquid whilst keeping its shape.

I've also seen these kinds of door be called "Patina Doors", likely due to their similar appearance to patina, or rust on copper or iron dependant on how you look.

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Crystal Study

With my door being transparent, I need to look at some crystals which carry the same qualities but in a slightly different format. For example, quartz, this is a stone that can have amazing clarity; however imperfections shine through clearest of all.

Or, for a more similar approach, looking at stones that change colour dependant on the light they are in. For example alexandrite and ametrine.

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Studio Laika - The Stop-motion Titans

The makers of the most well known stop motion movies known to man; made so well some don't even know about the pain-staking effort and will that is used in every frame of animation.

Here you can see, that every prop, every creature, every person is made with the utmost precision and thought. The light is clearly used well, and mechanisms are made in the most amazing feats I've seen in a while.

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Aidan Campbell Miniatures

This is a miniature artist who, as oppose to just doing paintings, also does mini sculptures, made of things like metal, clay, and other materials.

His paintings are still amazing works of art, making historic works of art in extremely small scale. The large amount of work that must go in to making the sculptures has to convert over into the intricacies of the paintings.

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Art in Wax (Surprisingly, not in wax)

This miniature artist differs from the others as they not only do framed pieces, but also frameless pieces. This is another amazing skill, not having the canvas warp on that scale is awe-inspiring.

Don't let that discount their framed art however, it is an amazing look into this amazing artist. The way that the colour pops in the art really is eye-catching, even in this scale.

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Pip Walters

This miniature artist uses oil paints on not just canvas, but also more versatile objects like shells or stones. Whilst not as accurate as the other artists on the list, at least on the more experimental mediums; he still allows for amazing clarity in the full piece.

It amazes me how he doesn't obsess over every intricate detail of the piece. Finding a happy medium is an amazing skill to nurture. Especially in art.

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Kay Burdon Miniatures

Another miniature artist, this time not only doing rectangular paintings. The large frequency of them on her store show she is skilled. Not only in this but also in other mediums.

yet again the accuracy is amazing and so fascinating when it comes to working with paint. I personally have found a large issue with this kind of scale.

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Chris Sparrow - Dollhouse Painter

Chris Sparrow is an artist who paints art on extremely small (around 3" by 3") canvases, then sells them for a commission. They are incredibly intricate and colourful for something so small.

It gets to the point where even the frames cannot hold a candle to the accuracy that the pieces hold. The ability to draw something this clear on such a small canvas is so inspiring to me.

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Norwegian Trolls

Norwegian trolls or Jotunn are a large beings of godlike power in their tales; the boulders and large stones around Norway and the surrounding territories are trolls that were exposed to sunlight, becoming stone.

They are said to feel anger towards the blood of Christians. This is likely a tale which originated through Christian's demonisation of religious creatures.

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Religious Destruction

Once Christianity gained power and influence, they would often deface statues, and temples. Making these historic sites not only ruined, but often not able to study what's left.

These statues are the most well known, as the hours of craftsmanship that the statues took, is scraped away, and a chisel is used to carve in a cross. Arms are broken, fingers discarded.

This is deeply saddening for me, simply due to the craft's destruction. However I cannot imagine how the original craftsmen would have reacted to their work not only being defaced, but also being disgraced and disrespected.

It is commonly known that churches were built over Pagan temples and ley lines. This was to increase conversion amount, convenience, as well as to assert dominance against the pagan people

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Comic Page Finish up (Part 5)

Where I finished off I did the bilk of the colour and linework in physical media. However, I needed to add some whites, and wanted to make the text look more in place, as well as a bit more scratchy, as if etched with a stick or written by a child.

After scanning in the comic, I added the basic cloud of smoke, making that which is behind the door its complementary colour, Layering the lower opacity brush I was using in order to make a nice cloud effect.

I then used a messy brush to write over the Tingtizh text, this made a very neat scratchy effect, I don't know how I feel about the jet black. I think ill keep it because it gives the effect that the text was inked after the background, making the text the most vibrant.

I wanted to be sure I didn't miss any birds in the frame, so I outlined the negative spaces. I personally really really enjoy that the birds aren't very clear. It allows for some scepticism from the viewers as to if the birds are there purposefully, or if they are just practicing pattern recognition.

The main issues I saw now was that the left set of sound text is backwards due to me just copy and flipping them, as well as the top "Key Sound" text needing to be written over, and so I did just that. Making the black pop a lot more. You may ask, why I blended the background of the forest and not all the colour? That is because I am quite partial to the coloured pencil aesthetic.

If I wanted to do this again, I would have used more references, and I would have researched how to use coloured pencils effectively BEFORE starting.

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Comic Page Task Part 4

I started off by layering yellows and greens in order to make a more earthy tone, also by layering yellows, greys and blacks I made a nice stone texture. The portals handle being purple was inspired by the same art of kurogiri I mentioned in my door post

I then added some more language effects, for "wind sound" and "cold sound" however, I misspelt the word for cold sound. When making the language, I wanted to make the lettering slightly similar so that misspelling would be an issue. This is so the language feels real. I wasn't expecting to misspell anything myself though.

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Comic Page Task Part 3: Colour!

I decided the use of coloured pencils would increase the amount of grit, plus would allow for a more immersive look into the world in which the comic is made. The comic in terms of the world is going to be made by a small child who works for one of the authorities in the nation after hearing the tale from a mother.

The door in and of itself is going to utilise the complimentary colours. Behind the door is green, and so in front of the door is red. This makes the door stand out and allow for a higher rate of contrast.

In this chainsaw-man comic page you can see the same colour scheme used and how effective these colours can be to shift focus and create tension

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Comic Page Task Part 2!

Before I start, you will realise I took these photos in non-clear conditions, and my shadow can be seen in the images; sadly there is nothing I can do about this, so I will have to keep this in mind for later projects.

I started by sketching out the basic border and then blocking out the silhouettes. Making the 3rd panel set slightly different, making a full effects box with the word for "Key Sound"

Using physical pen and paper is definitely my preferred medium, as the resistance is nice, and the security of having the actual piece as oppose to having it in a slightly volatile storage solution

You can see in this spiderman issue; black and white art has a very unique feeling and an amazing form if you work at it, but I doubt that I will use purely black and white in my comic from this point forward.