Arms around a child - Animation

This is my final arms around a child animation. To make this I used an image which I made drawing by hand and then adding colour on Illustrator. To create the animation I had to import the image into Photoshop and then separate it different sections off into new layers. Once it had all been sectioned off into separate layers I had to tween them to create new frames for my animation and then it was complete! I used deep reds and pinks as it reflects the feeling of danger. The text is all hand drawn and bold which adds to the severeity of the message the quote is sending. If I was to do it again I would make it much more perfect and make sure each letter was evenly sized and placed.

Final Graphic Narrative

For our graphic narrative project we had to choose a song and then create a narrative to reflect the lyrics. I chose the song Sugar Water by Hollie Cook as it is a song that I like but looking back it would have been easier to do a song which had better lyrics!
I decided to use Roy Lichtenstein's work for inspiration and tried to do my own style of pop art similar to his. To create my graphic narrative I used pencil to draw it all and then went over it with black fine liner to make the lines stand out. Once I had completed all my drawing I took photos of ten and put them into Photoshop. Using the paint bucket tool I filled in all the different sections that I wanted to be coloured.

The use of colour throughout is quite subtle as I have only chosen to colour certain sections as you can see in the first image I only made the eyes, lips and top have colour. The text I used is my own handwriting so I did not use any other fonts or change the scale of it. I think it works really well as it is hand drawn. Images used as I said before are all hand drawn and has only had colour changed on it. I like the final outcome of my graphic narrative but if I was to do it again I would choose an easier song and also make sure I took my time as I rushed it quite a lot so it is definitely not as good as it could have been.

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was a hugely famous American pop artist. Lichtenstein became a huge figure in the new art movement along with other famous artists including Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. His art generally favoured the comic strip as his main inspiration.  Roy produced hard-edged and precise artwork with attention to detail but they were generally always done in a tongue-in-cheek, humorous way.

'Whaam!', 'Drowning girl' and 'Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too... But..' are all arguably some of his most famous art works.

Lichtenstein was born in New York city in 1923, into a middle-classed Jewish family. He left New York to attend Ohio State University. But his studies were interrupted when he had to do a 3 year stint in the American army during World War 2. In the 1960's, he started teaching at Rutgers University

Graphic Narratives

Dracula
By Bram Stoker
Illustrated by: Penko Glev

Published: 2007

Use of colour in this book is very dark and uses hardly any bright colours. The text is all the same fonts and scale. It also reflects the dark theme of the book as it is in quite an old style font.
I think all the images are computer drawn and each page is well filled with images.

Arms around a child idea

Sister Corita Kent

1. Corita Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita, gained international fame for her vibrant serigraphs during the 1960s and 1970s. A Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, she ran the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College until 1968 when she left the Order and moved to Boston. She was born on November 20th 1918 and died September 18th 1986. She gained international fame during the 60's and 70's for her vibrant graphic designs. She was greatly influenced by her spirituality and desire for world peace and social justice.

   

   Here are one of her designs. The colours used are very bold and stand out more as there are only three colours used. She only used blue, red and white. The typeface used is quite scruffy as if it may have been hand written which reflects the theme of the image well as it is about justice. The colours being red, white and blue are also the colour of the American flag, where she was from. 

   The image in my opinion doesn't need any additional imagery because it is straight to the point. When you first look at it your eyes are drawn to the text which is different colours. I think the hierarchy is in the correct order.

   I think to create this image it was mostly hand drawn using pens and then taken onto something like illustrator to change it. To make this image more successful i think i would change the background to make it a bit more relevant. 

   “Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.” - Sister Corita Kent 

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

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