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Category: Final Project

Final Project, Part 3

NARRATIVE ILLUSTRATION

Due Week 15

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Overall Description:

Create an interior illustration or a book cover for your story reboot. Choose a dramatic moment in time that captures the mood, genre and character of your story.

  • Final Art can be made using any combination of traditional drawing / inking skills and digital coloring.
  • Final art must make full use of value and read as a finalized piece of art work.
  •  Final art may be in Color or in Black and white.  If in color a limited palate is highly recommended.

Create 2-3 concept sketches for narrative illustrations featuring the same character(s) in different moments in time from your story. Be sure the settings and situations are different. Use the characters you created for Part 1.

These illustrations by “golden age” illustrator Arthur Rackham are a great example of this. Here his version of Alice is depicted at various moments in the story and from different points of view.

NEXT: Incorporating feedback from your instructor and peers, finalize one of the sketches into a final illustration. This can be an interior illustration or a book cover.

CREATE values studies and color studies as part of process work.

  • Final Art can be made using any combination of traditional drawing / inking skills and digital coloring.
  • Final art must make full use of value and read as a finalized piece of art work.
  •  Final art may be in Color or in Black and white.  If in color a limited palate is highly recommended.

Final Project Process Book Examples

Process Presentation

Due Week 15

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Prepare a 3 minute Presentation (5 minutes total with Q&A) on your story and your working process, guiding us through the project from inception to conclusion.

You will Present your work on the last day of class.

Submit your Presentation as PDF PROCESS BOOK .

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Here are some successful examples of Final Illustrations and their Accompanying Process Books.

Final Project

Fairytale Folktale or Fable Reboot

Overall Description:

In this multilayered project you will reinterpret a classic folk tale or fairy tale 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

There are 4 requires parts to this project.

  • STORY CONCEPT
  • CHARACTER SKETCHES
  • FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATION
  • PROCESS PRESENTATION

EXAMPLES

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Problem solve visually

Apply technical skills

Apply design concepts

Analyze content

Create original content

Apply critical thinking skills to make creative inferences

Evaluate different ethical perspectives and concepts

Respect and Use Creativity

Due Date(s)

Part 1, STORY CONCEPT

DUE WEEK 12

For this part of the project you will develop characters for your original story concept.

These characters and concept sketches may, but are not required to be in color. They do not need to be tightly finished.

Art can be made using any combination of traditional drawing / inking skills and digital coloring.

Part 2, CHARACTERS

DUE WEEK 13

Part 3, BOOK ILLUSTRATION

DUE WEEK 15

  • Final Art can be made using any combination of traditional drawing / inking skills and digital coloring.
  • Final art should be Limited Palate or Black and white.  
  • Final art specs are up to the artist.

Part 4, PROCESS PRESENTATION

DUE WEEK 15

Prepare a 3 minute Presentation (5 minutes total with Q&A) on your story and your working process, guiding us through the project from inception to conclusion.

You will Present you work on the last day of class.

Submit your Presentation as PDF PROCESS BOOK