Started to write story out: story board. FROM START UNTIL HE MEETS THE FIRST DRAGON

I quite liked the idea of drawing storyboards as it gets your mind's eye focused on angles and perspective; I can draw out what I want it to look like and then in the future I can change it and edit it. I didn't have time to do the whole rough book, but its looking like the book will be about 100 pages long (50 double page spreads) which ,if done correctly and professionally wont look too bad. It will be a thick story book, as opposed to just a few paged picture book.  Next step in the FMP is to map out the rest of it and then start character design before going onto the second rough, and then adding colour on the third rough. 

Review sheet - self assessment form

Conclusion

I do agree that kids will relate more to the simpler dragons, however I don't think they show my ability in drawing at all. Therefor I will be going back to my idea of doing them huge and magnificent. I will keep the idea of patterns on them as it adds an interesting dimension to the pictures. I will also add the colours and patterns to the background , as they will make the caves look far more interesting that just dull browns.  I will come up with my idea for the story next and start mapping out page designs. Hopefully I will have time to do this tonight, before the deadline.  I love the Idea of the stars in the background too - it looks spacey and magical.  I really hate the character concept art I've done so far.

I originally planned the simple dragons, then progressed to the more intricate ones and now the  tutors are saying the simple ones might be more relatable to kids. However I will have to avoid their comments this time and change my ideas back because I am simply not happy with them at the moment. I love the colour scheme and the textures though.

Rough colour ideas and interaction scenes

 

 

 

 

How my pitch went

George and Fumio suggested i stick with the original dragon ideas (The simpler more expressive ones) as they are more relatable to kids ( easier to draw too.)

they suggested using bright vivid colors in the caves instead of the brown and colour's you would expect. To make it really pop as a fantasy world

They wanted to see more interaction between Ben and the dragons and perhaps see the finished dragons colored in. They also wanted to see maybe a story board idea of whats going where- rough sketches to show the character moving throughout the scenes.  I also need to hone in on what the boy's final design will be.

So today I will try to get that all done before 10am tommorow!
They also suggested putting patterns on the dragon? not just having them all look the same?

Getting ready to pitch my idea for FMP tommorow to the teachers

concept ideas - character Ideas. Ben and anxiety

Ideas for concept scenes; depressed dragon

Design board workshops

Today we had to create mood boards for Brewdog Ales. We had to come up with packaging for a guest ale and show our process in a design board. admittedly, ours wasn't the best in the group, not by a long shot, but we worked together as a team, to analyse colors, themes, inspiring pictures and general research. We could have spent a lot more time on our design work rather than the research though. We came up with something different. We knew everyone would base their ale's packaging on Halloween so we went back to the roots of the holiday - which is actually Celtic. So we named our 'ale' after the original name of the holiday - 'Sam Hains' . We incorporated the sexuality of Adam and eve in it, with the apple (which was also a toffee apple/pumpkin) which worked beautifully. Then we chose to do a serpent wrapped around the stick, as if about to bite the apple. If we had had longer it would have probably resulted in a finished amazing piece - but we got stuck too long on the research.

Between you and me, Carly was also getting extremely bossy and stressy which sort of threw us off too.  

Below are the photos of our sketches and ideas and design boards. The first one I actually designed with Bryony but the group said it was too cluttered; but I did it like that deliberately to achieve a sort of scrapbook effect. However we settled on the second one after- to show our themes, colors and a little bit about the company. However I think we could have combined the two and it would have shown the class how much we had actually done. Our project was more about the background research than the official finished thing.

(Carly's plan originally)

Photos of everyone looking at everyone else's design boards

Now I am going to do a design board for my FMP

I will present this to Fumio and George to pitch my project 

Scribing

Today we started off in groups of six telling each other about our final major projects. I started Drawing Carly's. Her one was about death, as to be expected with Carly, and how people see such a natural process as horrible and fear it. Whereas in other cultures they praise it. I had to draw quickly what she was saying to match her brief.  She is including people's opinions, as well as her own on death, and how death has changed throughout religion and belief. She might include how mystical animals are used in the idea of death too and include things like dragon's scales. Also about how different cultures preserve their dead and shes going to be looking into poisonous plants and their effects on people (how they make you die) She going to do a series of five books. This was all remembered from the scribing. This technique helps you to remember key information quickly through illustration.

Carly did my one too...but I think I spoke too fast for her to gather everything:

I did Bryony's one too. Bryony's idea is for her to do research into evolution and whether the human race will regress in the distant future. Also how the earth will/has changed over the years. She wants to print her work onto parchment so it looks more authentic. Its a autobiographical journal on animals too and how they get along with each other. instead of seeing predator and prey - its the more complex relationship between them and how they coincide. Its going to be like an explorer's manual. Covering everything from climate change (how the earth has changed) to the animals. She wants to print it in full color and full of small bite sized facts to inform the reader. She wants it to look like shes there herself, watching and recording and documenting the animals.

Breaking up FMP into bits

Research: 
As a lot of my mental health based research is coming from my research project, I will use my research for this project to start planning expressions - how to visualize feelings and emotions, plus I will use it for concept ideas as well as research into what caves look like and tunnels, soil, children, ect..... Purely concept based rather than more information based.  Also other artists who use children's books to tell children about mental health/disabilities.  How and what they do.

Perhaps two weeks?

Design development:
I will start to mind map out ideas of how the story will go and look. I will start drawing up scene ideas I have and then try and fit them altogether so the story flows. I will also focus on what my characters will look like.

Two weeks

Production:
I will start to draw up the rough book and ideas fitted all together. Then I will scan them into my blog and after continue to work in pen on it, then scan that into my blog to show progression, and then I will start to work into my favorite scenes with photoshop.

Three weeks

Final production/printing:
I will print it in multiple paperback copies in the studio but may use Blurb again to print an official book.

One week - or three weeks, depending on delivery of supposed book.



Key areas for realizing my project:

I need to be very aware of timings and have to make sure I don't rush things as well.


Tasks involved: 

Research(looking at other's art, ideas and making mood boards and authors ect)
planning, drawing, finishing,printing



FINISH RESEARCH IN NOVEMBER

FINISH PLANNING CONCEPT ART/IDEAS FOR STORY BOARDS IN DECEMBER

FINISH DRAWING UP IN ROUGH AND STARTING TO WORK INTO ON PHOTOSHOP IN JANUARY

FINISH DIGITAL WORK IN FEBRUARY AND PRINT BY DEADLINE. 

UNTIL I FIGURE OUT WHAT OTHER PROJECTS I'M DOING WHEN, I CANNOT PLAN WHAT DAYS I AM GOING TO WORK ON WHAT THING.