Illustration & Visual Narrative Task 2
1.11.2023 - 29.11.2023 (Week 6 - Week 9)
Ruthlene Chua Zhen Si 0365222
Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media -Illustration & Visual Narrative
Task 2
LECTURE
Week 6: Composition Theory1// Visual Types 1// Visual Types and
Shots
——Decide how to arrange the object that are in your frame——
Composition 1: Intro
- The trickiest aspect of composition is figuring out how to efficiently organize the components in your image.
- Solution: Arrange things in a way that reveals significance
- Composed shots: Must arranged the focus of the scene to stand out, even in the subtlest manner
- Basic composition visual rules:
- Visual narrative: The scene's graphics enhance every element of the story
- Visual flow: The scene's visual flow guides the viewer's gaze in the right direction
- Visual balance: The arrangement of the images balances the scene's composition
- Visual hierarchy: The images are arranged such that the viewer's attention is drawn to particular elements first
- Different types of shots:
- Establishing
- Show spectacle and allow viewers to fully appreciate the beauty and majesty of a scene, all the while providing them with sufficient information to understand what is happening.
- Bird's eye view (also known as overhead shots)
- Is when the POV is placed directly above the subject.
- Frame within a frame
- A well-composed frame within a frame can fracture screen space, add depth, and create visual interest in your cinematic compositions.
- Technique of cinematic frames within a frame can emphasize and highlight the underlying meaning within story and break up the information in frame for maximum impact
- Medium shot (also known as three quarters shot)
- Which ,obviously, frames three quarters of the character
- Close-up
- It is an intimate moment, a look into character's mind. Helps us to "catch" emotion when the scene plays out
- Worm's eve view
- It is a view of an object from below, as though the observer were a worm; it is the opposite of a bird's-eye view.
Week 7: Composition Theory 2// Perspective
- One-Point Perspective
- Most simple method of producing three-dimensional images entails drawing your object emerging from a single point to the horizon
- Images become smaller until they entirely disappear as they approach the vanishing point.
- Two-Point Perspective
- The buildings and items in the picture are drawn to both of the vanishing points, which are located on either side of the horizon.
- Assist give items in a scene a better feeling of dimension and location as well as a larger sense of space
- Two vanishing points are place on the horizon and establish two sets of overlapping perspective lines fanning out from them.
- Objects can recede toward two different locations thanks to this network of lines, providing more dynamic perspectives than just one point.
- Three-Point Perspective
- Consists two vanishing point on opposite sides of horizon (in two-point perspective), with another vanishing point high above/ bellow horizon
- To show more object in a single scene
- The strength of the angle will be reduced if the vanishing point is far from the horizon or not related to it.
- Create more extreme viewing angle
- If it is on the vertical axis, it provides a far broader range of angle to allow viewers "look down" that particular place
- Isometric View
- Create detailed concept of individual buildings, more beneficial to use simple isometric view
- Allow clearly present three sides of design without distorting perspective/obscuring details
- Dynamic Application
- Don't need to adhere to the perspective method in strict way
- Intro
- Creating effective sense of space is very important
- Illustrating element:
- foreground (close to viewer)
- middle-ground
- background (far)
- Design flow
- Good arrangement of visual focus
- using fore, middle and background indicate a sense of movement/rhythm
- Lead viewer's eye throughout the layout ( moving from element to element with ease)
- Influence the way the viewer digest your content
INSTRUCTIONS
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For this assignment, you must find a related article/story that discuss Urban Legends. The legends maybe local or international. The artstyle must be derived from Art Deco.
Weight: 20% of the final grade
Duration: 3 weeks
Week 7 Exercise : Transparency Gradient and Noise
- This week, we're going to learn a new method for adding colors to an artwork that have a gradient effect by using the "Grain" effect and a linear, radial, freeform gradient.
- We are given an exercise to try and learn: Apply Grain Effect to the Particular artwork
- First Exercise: Apply to a triangles
- Second Exercise: Apply to a illustration people
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\Figure 1.0 : Triangles and people which applied grain effect
Figure 1.1 : Adjust the gradience color of the tail/bone
Figure 1.2 : Apply "Grain" effect on each piece of color pieces
Figure 1.3 : Apply "Grain" effect and adjust the gradience of the woman of her hair and clothes
Figure 1.4 : Apply Gradient effect on each piece of color pieces
Figure 1.5 : Apply "Grain" effect on each piece of color pieces
Task 2: Week 5 - 9 —— Urban Legend - Editorial Illustration (Decisive Moment)
At first we are told to find a urban story, we can do local or international. Mine urban legend story is from Pangkor Island, which is frequently told by the local resident. We are requested to follow the art deco style for our assignment.
1.The story goes:
- There is a hotel by the sea on pangkor Island. It is said that a boy who accompanied his father to Bangkok stayed there; during the night, the boy experienced some unsettling feelings, including vertigo. Just before the child went to sleep, he heard loud, piercing laughter in his ears. He ran to the hotel window to investigate and discovered a green figure of a woman peeking through the coconut trees. The youngster had a high temperature and dropped to the ground because he was so terrified.The kid's father brought him to a local hospital for medical attention as soon as he heard about the boy's encounter the next day. However, the boy showed no signs of recovery, so before he recovered, his father took him to visit a sorcerer to have the bad luck from his body removed. The youngster healed completely after that day, but this tale has since become an urban legend around that specific hotel on pangkor Island.
- I did two kinds of sketches and I felt that I would mostly prefer the second sketch.
Figure 1.6 : Sketches of urban legend
2. Reference, art and color style: Therefore, we are told to make some research on the refences, art and color style. I choose green color as the color style to show a more spooky appearance.
Figure 1.7 : Research & references and color style
3.Digital art work and final: This is the final drawings for urban legend story, I think I can do better that this. I would give it another try in the future. I totally mess up with the effect, although I used the "grain" and gradient effect, but I didn't truly understand the proper way to apply them.
Figure 1.8 : Final composition
I'm glad I have another chance to try out a new concept and explore more research on the visual style. This new version of urban legend not only make me easier and clearer mindset of creating the gif, but also provide me a new chance of trying something new. This is what I came out with. Not much improvement but its worth the try.
- Before composing the gif assignment, I realize that my previous work is not an suitable artwork to apply a gif effect. Therefore, I try a new composition and make some changes on it.
Figure 1.9 : New references, art and color style
Figure 1.9 : Using previous sketches and artwork as a reference
- I make a slightly changes on the story to express the situation of the urban legend story more clearer and spookier.
- Story goes:
- On the mysterious shores of Pangkor Island, where the waves whispered haunting secrets, stood a hotel, weathered by time and adorned with tales of the supernatural. The air hung heavy with an unsettling energy that only those who dared to stay within its walls could feel. It was within this ancient abode that a chilling incident unfolded, shrouded in darkness and terror.One fateful night, a father and his young son sought refuge in the eerie embrace of the hotel. The boy, a mere innocent soul, found himself plagued by an otherworldly unease as the clock struck the witching hour. The room seemed to sway, the very air thickening with an unseen malevolence. Vertigo gripped the child, threatening to pull him into the abyss of the unknown.As the boy struggled to comprehend the unearthly sensations, a sinister laughter echoed through the corridors, a haunting symphony that sent shivers down his spine. The laughter, a perverse melody, grew louder, piercing his ears like needles of dread. Courageously, or perhaps foolishly, the child approached the window, drawn by an unseen force compelling him to unveil the source of this unholy mirth.Through the swaying coconut trees, he beheld a ghastly sight—a ghastly green figure of a woman, her eyes burning with an otherworldly malevolence. The moonlight painted her unearthly form, and as the boy locked eyes with this spectral entity, his world spiraled into a nightmare. With a sudden, unnatural grace, the ghoul passed through the barriers of the window, materializing in the room.A paralyzing terror seized the boy as the spectral woman slithered into his very essence, a possession that transcended the boundaries of the living and the dead. The child, now a vessel for the supernatural, writhed in agony, his body succumbing to an unnatural fever. He collapsed to the ground, a puppet in the hands of an unseen malevolence.When dawn broke, the father, alarmed by his son's plight, rushed him to a local hospital. Medical attention proved futile as the boy's condition only worsened. Desperation gripped the father's heart, and in a last-ditch effort to save his son, he sought the aid of a sorcerer, a guardian of forgotten rituals and arcane knowledge.In a dimly lit chamber, surrounded by the pungent scent of incense and the whispers of ancient spells, the sorcerer endeavored to banish the malevolent force that clung to the boy's soul. Dark incantations reverberated through the air as the sorcerer wrestled with the unseen adversary. A climactic struggle unfolded between the forces of light and shadow.Miraculously, as the final chant echoed, the boy's contorted form began to ease. The fever broke, and color returned to his pallid face. The sorcerer, with a grave expression, declared the removal of the cursed presence that had gripped the child's spirit.Although the boy physically healed, the trauma endured, and the tale lingered, weaving itself into the fabric of the hotel's history. Whispers of the green specter and the possessed child became an enduring urban legend—a cautionary tale for those who dared to tangle with the supernatural on the shores of Pangkor Island. The hotel, now eternally marked by the spectral encounter, stood as a haunted monument to the thin veil that separated the living from the realm of the unknown.
Figure 2.0 : Further research on the urban story
- I'm quite satisficed with the work but I'm desire to learn more in order to come out with a better piece of artwork.
Figure 2.1 : Final Composition 2.0
- Gif Animation: We are given a assignment to make a gif animation with the previous artwork. I try to adjust the kid's mouth to express its shocking feeling and also the coconut tress swing around because of the spooky wind, last but not least the shadow and the lightning effect.
Figure 2.2 : Adding in the artwork into adobe photoshop
- The gif I'm about to show might not be perfect, but it offers an excellent opportunity to learn.
Figure 2.3 : Final Gif
FEEDBACK
Week 6 Online : While I'm struggling on choosing which urban legend story to move on, Mr. Hafiz told me to choose the urban legend that I can manage and complete on time. ( When I'm requesting feedback, the due date of assignment is almost there)
Figure 2.4 : Feedbacks for suggesting which urban legend to continue
Week 7: None
Week 8 Online: I ask Mr. Hafiz if I can continue the gif assignment with a new composition. Mr. Hafiz said that I may and compliment that the new composition looks better.
Figure 2.4 : Feedbacks for new composition
Week 9: None
REFLECTIONS
Experience
I have been learning how to conduct research, locate references, and get to a story's climax point over the past few weeks while I have worked on this artwork. This piece of art requires us to locate the story's conclusion and utilize our imagination to foresee the situation. The difficult aspect of this specific piece of art is that the primary art style we must employ is art deco. Finally, but just as importantly, make a gif with our own artwork.
Observation
The difficult aspect of this project is that it calls for us to create an art deco-style piece of basic, readable artwork. It could be difficult for me because I'm not familiar with the art deco style. It takes careful observation to determine if gradient and "grain" effects are appropriate for a certain shade or area. It is a difficult task for a designer to locate and visualize the story's conclusion.
Findings
I find I was struggling in this assignment because I'm not sure what I want, therefore I couldn't design and drew out something on my expectation. I find out that i must practice more on my Ai skills and do more research about illustration to get a better understanding and also produce better artwork.
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