Sketch for poems

For this task, I didn't know which poem to choose between: Blessing and Island Man. I decided on these two at the beginning because they are two very good poems with some good imagery.

So I decided to do some very rough drawings to start with and see which one worked better for me:

After sketching them out, I decided on Island Man. This is because ideas came more easily when thinking of what to draw. I also have ideas on how to colour it in. Though blessing was good, it was hard how to present it, and then only frame I had no difficulty drawing was frame four, where they congregate to the water pump.

Jack and Jill Workshop

I really think my storyboard works for showing off Jack and Jill because of the symbols I have used.
For Jack and Jill, I have kept it simple, to a symbol of a boy and a symbol of a girl. This is because it is easy to distinguish who is who, whereas I feel that if I had used animals, it would be easy to forget which animal represented who. In the first frame, I have cut out a shape to be the sun to symbolise that the beginning is happy. I am going to add bright colours, such as blue for the sky, green for the grass etc...
For the second frame, Jack and Jill are climbing a hill. For this, I have enlarged some snakes and cut them in half and stuck them next to each other to show a hill shape. I have then used arrows pointing up. I think it works because it does look like they are climbing up a hill.
For the third frame, I have used a fire hydrant and some shapes to make a bucket. I then found a symbol and had it copied to make a wave effect. This will work for water in the bucket because it will look like proper water when it is coloured in different shades of blue.
The fourth frame shows Jack falling down the hill. This frame works because it has the same design as the second frame, so it shows consistency and people would know that is the hill.
For the fifth frame, I have cut a crown in half so it looks broken. To show a change of emotion from the first frame, I have used exclamation marks and the '@' sign, because when making 'smileys' on the computer, the '@' sign is used to make an angry face.
I think my storyboard works because it is consistent and the same symbols are used for each part, so nothing looks out of place.

5 inspiring artists.

1. William Shakespeare- A Midsummers Night Dream Manga. Illustrated by Kate Brown

 These are some examples of the illustration in this book.  It looks like it was hand-drawn, and then added to the computer where the colour and text was added to it. 

I like how it switches between black and white to colour. I also like how the text is done in speech bubbles. The colours on the coloured pages the colours go together very well and it isn't 'in your face' and too bright. This could influence my narrative because I could use the fact that the colours aren't too bright, as this would make it look more realistic. I could also use the way I think this was designed: I could draw my narrative and then scan it to the computer to add colour and text.

2. Emma Dibben

This is some of Emma Dibben's work that I liked. It's hand drawn and very realistic. I really like the fishes because I think it is well drawn and it looks like the animals it is meant to be. I also like in the nettle drawing how she hasn't coloured to drawing in, but has done the actual drawing just in the colour it is supposed to be (e.g. nettles are green but instead of colouring around the detail, it is drawn in that colour). This is what would influence my designs, as it would add colour to my designs, but not too overdone. Again, I would scan my drawings into the computer and add text afterwards.

3. Nishant Choksi

After looking on www.centralillustration.com, I found that I really liked Nishant Choksi's work. He specialises in character illustration and has worked with the Guardian and Vodaphone. This is because they are very abstract and different. I picked my two favourites (above). These are my favourite because they made me laugh. I think that these were, again, hand drawn and then tweaked on the computer. These could influence my designs because, if I really thought about how to do it, I could make mine different by using an abstract design.

4. Clare Melinsky

These are some of Clare Melinsky's works. She specialises in lino work, but has done some well known work, such as front covers for the Shakespeare novels and the Harry Potter novels (above). I reckon that these were hand drawn and maybe even coloured. 

 I chose these two pieces of work because I love those designs for the Harry Potter series (and I love the books!) but the second piece because I love the amount of detail she has gone into and I really like how it is shaded in lines in the water. I really think it sets the scene. Again, the colours work well together as well and they don't overpower each other. This could influence the way I design because the sea looks good in this design, so I could try to replicate this in mine.

5. John Holcroft

John Holcroft is an illustrator. His work looks hand drawn and then coloured on the computer after being scanned in. I love his work because it has meaning in them. For example, the top one is basically saying that over time, a house costs a lot of money, and the second one is along the lines of 'you are what you eat'. I love that he has taken sayings and made them visual. My work could be influenced with this because it is literal, and the detail in really well thought out and interesting. For example, you can see individual notes of money floating down.

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