Category: Discussions (Page 3 of 31)

My partner for the weekly critique was my sister Angela. I was looking over her work and noticed some things about her character design and concepts. For her character design I think she needs to work on variety and really focusing on fabric draping. She said that it was difficult to find references for a poncho and really struggled to make sense of the way the fabric would fall/drape. With that being said, I think she still did really good in her final character design. She did good referring to boots and the hair has a really nice flow to it. For her concepts I thought concept one was good but I think Robin needs to look more like she’s about to attack for example, have her bow and arrow pointed at the horse drawn carriage. For concept one it will be better if she makes those changes. I also enjoyed the bird drawings of Robin’s friend little John.   

The lectures from the last classes were very helpful, interesting, and insightful. It was fun to see very recognizable children authors. The lectures also allowed me to realize what important moment you should be illustrating, the image you choose to illustrate will show the audience the main idea. I also think that Alice in Wonderland is probably the most done over concept/story. I think that’s because Alice in Wonderland allows the illustrator to be super creative because the movie/story itself is super creative and unique with it’s characters.

From week 12 it went over important aspects of considering yourself to be a director. Thinking of yourself as the person in charge and that includes character design, POV, setting, and tone. The slides goes over different angles and point of view of the same illustration and how that can make your illustration dynamic and more interesting. There are many POV such as birds eye view, worms eye view, eye level, long shot, and medium shot. All in all, this technique is super important and makes your illustrations more affective.

When working on your narrative illustration its very important to note the point of view. POV is apart of the composition process when making any illustration and its very effective when doing a narrative illustration i think. Everything is up to us so we have to imagine where and which spot we want the POV to be at. Important things to note when considering POV is an eye-level shot, close-ups, long shots, medium shots, worms-eye view, and birds-eye view. The eye level is probably the first thing that has to be established when doing your narrative illustration. The difference in eye level will make our viewer relate to the illustration in different ways. We also have an emotional response when looking at a certain POV, we can feel scared, or feel welcomed, or unwelcomed, by an illustration for example. And furthermore a worms-eye view can make us feel little and focused more on everything above us, forcing our eyes to travel upwards. Whereas a birds-eye view makes us feel big and strong almost, forcing us to look down upon things in the illustration.