WEEK 12 Class Info

• Date: 4/19/24: WEEK 12 You are juggling many balls in the air, we pluck 3 that encapsulate TV/FILM + ANIMATION + GAMING INDUSTRY and see how they overlap and how previous lessons have prepared us for this step. We dive into the 3 areas in service to our final project and 3 specific aspects: ENVIRONMENTS + CHARACTER DESIGN + BACKGROUNDS…while also tapping into Wardrobe, Board Games, Storyboards and all the areas where Illustration is an asset for the job.

Objectives

• ACCUMULATING OUR SKILLS TO ACHIEVE MULTIPLE OUTPUTS IN THE FIELD OF ILLUSTRATION AND HOW THEY CONNECT TO THE FIELDS OF TV/FILM+ANIMATION+GAMING INDUSTRY

Activities

Discussion

• Week 11 Reading: Story Structure: POV + NARRATIVE
• Tutorials: 4 Environment Quickfires • 2X 2-POINT PERSPECTIVE • Storyboard Breakdown
• Lecture: ANIMATION + GAMING + TV/FILM interlaced with

Review Assignments and Expectations for Next Week’s Class

LAB: Work on assignments

DUE WEEK 12/This Week

EXPLODED PACKAGE SKETCH

W11 READING

• Week 11 Reading: Story Structure: 7 Types All Writers Should Know: https://blog.reedsy.com/guide/story-structure/ • Week 11 Reading: Story Structure: Stories, A Love Letter: https://www.muddycolors.com/2015/01/stories-a-love-letter/

!HOMEWORK #3) FINAL PREP!

Fairytale Folktale or Fable Reboot — Overall Description:

In this multilayered project you will reinterpret a classic folk tale, fairy tale, or established story found in pop culture or media through your own creative lens.

For example, Note how different artists over time have reinterpreted the story of Alice in Wonderland, by Louis Carrol.

Final Project has 4 required parts to this project.

1) STORY CONCEPT + 2) ILLUSTRATIONS +

3) CHARACTER DESIGNS + 4) (PROCESS) PRESENTATION

FIRST PART IS DUE WEEK 12: FULL STORY CONCEPT • Full details here: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/comd3313spring24/?p=823

• Part 1 Requirement 1: CONCEPT: Settle on a concept for your reinterpretation. The story should still be easily recognizable
• Part 1 Requirement 2: RESEARCH: Create a Pintrest Board, online mooodboard, or collect images to collage for this project.
• Part 1 Requirement 3: STORY PROPOSAL: Write a brief ~3 paragraph summary of your proposed project to post to the open lab/share with class. INCLUDE: • What is the original story? Link to story • Explanation of the changes you are making for your interpretation • Summary of your story. • Description of the characters and setting • Demographic for this proposed project

FINAL EXPECTATIONS ARE/SHOULD MEET:

TAKE A LOOK AT FINAL PROJECTS I WILL EXPECT FROM YOU: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/comd3313spring24/2023/11/10/final-project-process-book-examples/

W12 HOMEWORK IS DUE W15 (5/17)

FINAL PREP: STORY DEVELOPMENT: CONCEPT + RESEARCH + STORY PROPOSAL**

• Announced Week 11 > Due Week 12 > Used & referenced throughout

FINAL ILLUSTRATION #1: COVER • 8.5˝ X 10.5˝ • INKED

1. Narrative • Decorative • Informative • Decorative

FINAL ILLUSTRATION #2: • INTERIOR 1: INKED ESTABLISHING SHOT • 8.5˝ X 10.5˝

FINAL ILLUSTRATION #3 • INTERIOR 2: BIG STORY BEAT • 8.5˝ X 10.5˝

FINAL ILLUSTRATION #4 • CHARACTER DESIGNS + OBJECT • 8.5˝ X 10.5˝˝

MAY 17TH FINAL PRESENTATION • PROCESS & PITCH VIA PDF

WEEK 12 READING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Art Department in Film: https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/the-art-department-film/

• Essential Guide: Film Crew Positions: https://www.wrapbook.com/blog/film-crew-positions

W13 • Storyboard Prep 1: Live Action

Start :05—3:33

W13 • Storyboard Prep 2: Animation

Week 12 Presentation HERE:

Part1:

Part 2:

WEEK 11 Class Info

• Date: 4/14/234: WEEK 11 Hopping off color theory, advertising, and the advent of digital illustration and how UI/Web Design affects the modern world we illustrators live in…We dive into NARRATIVE. Story compels all forms of commercial illustration and affects lighting, perspective, framing and urges us as illustrators to inject as much story into our work as possible to drive towards the Big Idea. We explore further subdivisions of the amorphous term, “commercial illustration” and explore how a single perspective can be used for several compositions, and how filmmaking techniques—from framing to script reading—are universal constants in whichever area of Commercial Art you choose to operate in.

DUE WEEK 11/This Week

• HOMEWORK #1A: Digital Coloring Exercise • Show me how your Sentinel Splash page coloring came out!
• HOMEWORK #1B: USE YOUR MID-TERM, OR OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENTS INCLUDED IN WEEK 10 GOOGLE FOLDER • CHOOSE COLOR SCHEME: Base/Mid-Tones + Shadows/Dark-Tones + Accent/Highlights • CLEAN UP ART > blacks are BLACK / whites are WHITE! • For the purposes of this exercise, white and black do not count/try not to use white or black beyond your lineart

Objectives

• Exploring the basics of converting and cleaning up your art work and advancing that with digital coloring making use of the color knowledge gained over the past few weeks. We see how the pulls of print and advertising advance into the digital age and the new expectations that surround us as Illustrators.

Activities

• Crit: Logos + Editorial Assignments

• Lecture: Print VS. Digital • PACKAGING! • “Illustration” vs. “Commercial Art” • Narrative Illustration Art that tells a story: Story beats / Story Structure and Establishing the Big Idea/Concept • Being the Director: POV and Emotion •
• DEMOS: Packaging Quickfires + Perspective

Review Assignments and Expectations for Next Week’s Class

LAB: Work on assignments

Week 11 HOMEWORK

WEEK 11 READING

• Week 11 Reading: 10 Big Reasons to Apply Illustrations in UI Design: https://blog.tubikstudio.com/big-reasons-to-apply-illustrations-in-ui-design/
• Week 11 Reading: Story Structure: 7 Types All Writers Should Know: https://blog.reedsy.com/guide/story-structure/
• Week 11 Reading: Story Structure: Stories, A Love Letter: https://www.muddycolors.com/2015/01/stories-a-love-letter/

W11 SKETCHBOOK ASSIGN#1: EXPLODED PACKAGING SKETCH

• MINIMUM SIZE 8.5˝x 11˝ • STRAIGHT inked lines for box TEMPLATE
• pencil sketch of details/info/art ontop • tell me EVERYTHING

POV EXTRA CREDIT (Open until w13)

Draw the POV from a window, find a good composition, notice the horizon line and any perspective. This isn’t mean to be perfect, it can be awkward to draw on a vertical surface. Use Inking techniques to fill in the drawing in addition to the linework that lays out the scene.

•AFFIX TO WINDOW USING TAPE • IN SHARPIE ONLY • Have rubbing alcohol on hand to clean up window. • RUBBING ALCOHOL REMOVES SHARPIE AND SHARPIE DRAWS ON THE ACETATE—FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS, YOU MANIACS!!!

FINAL PROJECT • STEP 1:

Fairytale Folktale or Fable Reboot — Overall Description:

In this multilayered project you will reinterpret a classic folk tale, fairy tale, or established story found in pop culture or media through your own creative lens.

For example, Note how different artists over time have reinterpreted the story of Alice in Wonderland, by Louis Carrol.

PART1: FULL STORY CONCEPT • DUE WEEK 12

• Part 1 Requirement 1: CONCEPT: Settle on a concept for your reinterpretation. The story should still be easily recognizable. Use these links to select a story in the public domain to re-interpet: LINK TO PUBLIC DOMAIN STORIES 1 • LINK TO PUBLIC DOMAIN STORIES 2 • LINK TO PUBLIC DOMAIN STORIES 3: Hans Christen Andersen
• Part 1 Requirement 2: RESEARCH: Create a Pinterest Board, online mood board, or collect images to collage for this project.
• Part 1 Requirement 3: STORY PROPOSAL: Write a brief ~3 paragraph summary of your proposed project to post to the open lab/share with class.

PART 1 REQUIREMENT 1: CONCEPT, EXPANDED

Brainstorm different ways to reinterpret this story through your own unique lens. Try changing/updating/altering one or more of the primary elements of a pre-existing story:

• CULTURAL INFLUENCE
• GENRE
• MOOD
• SETTING
• UPDATE CHARACTERS

Settle on a concept for your reinterpretation.

The story should still be easily recognizable!

PART 1 REQUIREMENT 2: RESEARCH, EXPANDED

Though you are interpreting the story through your own personal artistic lens, it must be informed by thorough research and reference.

Create a Pinterest Board, online mood board, Google Sheets, or collection of images to collage for this project.

Start by finding information on the setting: time period, culture, environment. Look for reference for staging as well. You’ll need props such as clothing, architecture, furniture, plants, or animals. All of this must be accurate and carefully researched in the final illustration.  You’ll also need to begin considering characters for your story update.  Start researching reference on this as well.

This library is an ongoing part of the project. You will supply new research images as you accumulate them. Reference will be expected during each phase of the project. You will submit your reference along with the final.

PART 1 REQUIREMENT 3: STORY PROPOSAL, EXPANDED

INCLUDE: • Paragraph 1: INTRO: What’s the big idea? What’s the concept? What is the original story we know and how you are going to twist it. Link to the original story • Paragraph 2: DETAILS: Quick story summary, whats changed, key details and important story beats. Description of the characters, setting, motivations. • Paragraph 3: IN SUMMATION: Why is the twist important? Why are you telling it? What are you hoping to achieve? Who is this for? Is there a message you want to get across that your re-imagination of this story is intended to convey? • Explanation of the changes you are making for your re-interpretation • Demographic for project

Final Project has 4 required parts to this project.

1) STORY CONCEPT (WEEK 11) + 2) CHARACTER ILLUSTRATIONS + 3) FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS + 4) FINAL + PROCESS PRESENTATION

TAKE A LOOK AT FINAL PROJECTS I WILL EXPECT FROM YOU: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/comd3313spring24/2023/11/10/final-project-process-book-examples/

Week 11 Presentation HERE:

WEEK 8 Class Info

• Date: 10/20/23: WEEK 8 IS THE MIDTERM PRESENTATION OF YOUR INKED POSTER. This is a key part of your grade — don’t be late — find a way to get on track

DUE WEEK 8/This Week

• Poster: Fully INKED 8.5″x12″ Poster
  • FINAL IS DUE THIS WEEK: -Inked -On Bristol board/Illustration Stock. -No Digital. -No Color (B&W Ink only)
• Week 7 Reading: Art Licensing: Is it for you? How does it work? https://jennarainey.com/art-licensing-if-its-for-you-and-how-it-works/ • Illustration Licensing 101 By Maggie Enterrios: https://www.littlepatterns.com/blog/illustration-licensing • A guide to copyright, licensing and illustration fees: https://www.lisamaltby.com/blog/a-licence-to-bill-understanding-copyright-licensing-and-illustration-fees • Licensing vs. Work for Hire: https://diymfa.com/writing/licensing-vs-work-for-hire/ • History Matters: A History of Ink in Six Objects: https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/history-ink-six-objects • Timeline of Printing: https://printinghistory.org/timeline/ • Printing Newspapers 1400-1900: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/04/printing-newspapers-1400-1900

Objectives

• Week 8 hops, skips and jumps into our laps having been made familiar of art & illustrations evolution alongside mankind (week 7). We delve deeper into the impact print has made for Illustrators, namely “Editorial Illustration,” while setting the scene for future weeks discussion of Political/Humor/Sequential Comics. Settle in to connect the dots of history that are alive in the present. Stay for insights that make impactful Editorial Illustrations and apply those insights across your work in the future. From here on out, we are stepping beyond the basics of Illustration and into the world that uses those basics to make a career for themselves. Future weeks will focus on the field available to Illustrators, not so much a focus on pen/pencil techniques but will keep Sketchbook assignments active to implement what we learned Weeks 1-6

Activities

Discussion

• Transition from Week 7 to Week 8 with a focus on Print and its impact on culture and how Illustration as an Industry came into it’s own.

“History is not an exploration of the past—it is an explanation of the present.”

• Lecture: Knowing how the Blombos Cave Paintings connect to the Newspaper Wars, we take a historical look at the seismic impact print has made on the modern world and the opportunities it brought about for Illustrators. Then, we go over established concepts and practices in the world of Editorial Illustration and consider the use of visual metaphors for your Assignments.

Review Assignments and Expectations for Next Week’s Class

LAB: Not expected, take off early as a reward for your hard work.

WEEK 8 PRESENTATION HERE:

Due Week 9

WEEK 8 READING

• 8 Examples of Inspiring Editorial Illustration: https://www.creativebloq.com/inspiration/8-inspiring-uses-of-editorial-illustration
• 1900–1910 A Decade for Illustrators: https://www.illustrationhistory.org/history/time-periods/the-decade-1900-1910
• Illustration: a History: http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/illustration.htm#american
• 22 Iconic Brand Mascots Since 1877: https://erinsweeneydesign.com/marketing/a-history-of-the-most-iconic-brand-mascots-since-1877/
• TMNT TimeLapse Poster by Tomer Hanuka: https://vimeo.com/105326758

HOMEWORK: Drawing The News: Intro to Editorial Illustration: STEP 1

• Source & Supply THREE (3) News Stories that inspire you personally or professionally. Seek out articles that include text that helps build visuals, look for metaphors, comparisons, analogies and components within the text that inspire visual interpretations of the article and its primary take-away. Just like Step 1 in Ideating that we know from Weeks 1-6, reading the article and doing research is part of the process before leaping into sketches or visuals. Often times there is a phrase, quote or sentence that will inspire you, or cracks the code for you to use something within the text or that you can imagine ideas that would compliment the authors intent for the article.
• Leave a comment on this post with a 1-sentence summary (expand upon the purpose/primary point/essential contents of the article being conveyed to you/the reader) and the link to the article. No Paywalls.
• If you dont post 3 articles—you’ll be assigned 1 (difficult) story. (You’ve been warned!)
• Can be magazine/fashion/tech/animals/travel/entertainment/art article or book/play/art/movie review as well!
• “The News” doesn’t have to be depressing!

FIND & POST YOUR 3 STORIES BELOW….

Honestly? just grab a paper over the weekend, find a spot to sit and get lost in the world and see what strikes you. Using your phone for this project is a great way to half-ass something you’d arguably be more effective at with a solitary focus like a newspaper…heck, odds are with a paper you’ll see more art or even an editorial illustration for the story that can serve as a reference-point for your own unique idea.

There is a false sense of urgency that is an undercurrent in the homework I receive. I can see folks grasping at the first and third ideas without the patience or dedication to understand that the 5th idea and 7th attempt are vastly more successful, having been refined and re-worked. Have confidence in yourself, but don’t be so over-confident to think that your instincts would not benefit from some re-consideration. I assure you that taking a moment to collect your thoughts and process the assignment and giving time for the answer to reveal itself naturally is a more effective and rewarding process than demanding an answer from yourself as soon as possible. Always give yourself time to let ideas sit, percolate and brew for more potent results.