Illustration and Visual Narative [Exercises]

 

Lectures 

Week 1 : Introduction and briefing

We met our lecturer Ms Annis and Mr Faizal. Ms Annis lectured us about the introduction of Character Designs and what makes them appealing to us along with their principles

- Shapes : shapes are used in every character design, it is what makes them have the iconic look

- Color : Colors are used to determine a character personality and emotions, it also determines heroes or villains

- Emphasis & Contrast : a good character design is when you pick one visual element in a character and exaggerate it, making it outstanding and memorable, sometime picking a cultural element and adding it to a design makes it uniquely and authentic

- Harmony : All shapes, lines, color, motifs, pattern must be put together in a tasteful manner

every element used in your design must work togetherlike they compliment each other - a balance of visual elements has a visual heirachy.

- Expressions/ Poses : this is what makes your character win the heart of an audience, its their behavior/quirks/personality that are visually shown

Week 2 : Chiaroscuro

we are briefed about Chiarocuro, an element that refers to use of light and dark to create the illusion of three-dimensional volume on a flat surface.

the chiaroscuro is used to Increase the dramatic tension, creates a sensational effect, out your subject in a intense way, and create a tasteful composition of negarive vs positive spaces.

one of the common use of this is usually on grayscale paintings or manga, but mostly realistic like manga.

Week 3 : Composition 1

composition is the term usually refers to the arrangement of elements within a work of art. In this lecture, we were briefed about "Rule Of Thirds". The rule of thirds is a "rule of thumb" or guideline which applies to the process of composing visual images. 

after that, we continue our lecture about Background, Midground and Foreground. 

Week 4 : NO CLASS

Week 5 : Composition 2

For this lecture topic, It is the part 2 of Composition : Prespective. This is the tehnique used to create 3 dimension like drawings/2 dimensional surface. 

there are many kinds of prespective such as 1-point, 2-point, 3-point and the fisheye. Fisheye usually have 5 or more points of prespectives

fisheye

3 point

Week 6 : Composition 3

In this lecture, our topic for composition 3 is Rythm and Movement. With Rythm and Movement in art, our eye follows the flow of the composition, making it very intresting.

Week 7 : Transitions in comics

first, one of the most common transition in comics are Moment to moment. this transition usually used time per panel.

Second, is action to action. This transition usually indicates major movements in an event.

The third one is Subject to subject, which occurs in the same time but just diffrent scenes. This usually drawn a lot when there's a conversation.

Scene to Scene is the fourth one, this transitions takes the viewer with a diffrent time and prespective that follows up the previous panel.

V comforts nero while dante is about to fight

morrison chilling with people while dante fights

And finally, Aspect to ascpect. This one is quite diffrent from the others (i think) as it shows more in the environment while happening in the same scenes.

 Exercises

Exercise 1 : Character Tracing

we were tasked to draw the re-trace shape of character and examine their shapes. my take is Bee from Bee and Puppycat and Monokuma from Danganronpa series

Exercise 2 : Landscape

for this one, i want to make for the vormator challange too so i made it space like. I tried to learn from a tutorial how to make planet and meteor

Honestly making the meteor was really hard but i enjoy nontheless.

Exercise 3 : Landscape Sketches

we had to make 5 sketches. at first i was really confused what to draw so i look for a little refrences from music videos and ghibli movies.

Exercise 4 : Analyze Motion Line

in this exercise we have to analyze the motion line in a comic.

The very first panel is focused to V as Dante(In his Devil Trigger form) telling him to get out but theres also another focus when Dante is holding an attack from Urizen, showing a motion line of clashing power in the back view.

while reading the next page, i also realized that the rocks are falling to Nero's direction.