Category: Course Activities (Page 8 of 57)

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.

There are so many things to consider when doing a narrative illustration. As it states in the week 11 lecture it says that you have to start with your big idea. Once you have your main concept/big idea it will help you in making the rest of the decisions for your narrative illustration. Your main concept has to be powerful and communicate properly with your audience. And with your main concept you have to identify the main things within that concept, which concept is the most important and conveys your ideas even stronger. Its also very important to choose the critical moment for your illustration. Whether it is the climax, the events after the climax or the events before the climax. Each play a key role and its your choice on which you think conveys the story the best.