Throughout the module I had learned a few new skills
through various exercises such as colours, lighting and perspective. For the
last exercise I will be incorporating these 3 skills that I had practiced from
these previous exercises to produce a five-panel illustration narrative.
- Colour
- Lighting
- Perspective
It was a good practice learning these skills over time of
the course and I will now use what I have learnt so far to produce the work for
this exercise. Everything I will be doing for this will be done digitally
through Photoshop as I wanted to further improve my practice in my chosen
medium. For the piece i decided to draw something that is of my current interests at the moment, and that is colours and scenery. Originally I was going to focus on creatures/characters, although I feel the need to improve on environment/scenery imagery. The idea for the piece is to create a atmospheric tone, which is one of the things I am currently working on for personal pieces outside of university study.
I had decided to approach the exercise to produce a very short narrative
in the form of storyboard/graphic novel, because storyboards is something that
I do want to practice rather than creating 5 pieces of artwork individually and
make it into a set. I’m not exactly confident with perspective at the moment
though I used a grid to create a 3rd dimensional space within the scene to get a
rough idea of how things will be placed correctly as well as to draw objects
and characters more accurately within the space itself. This will at least help for the problem solving to try and get things right for the images.
Colour mixing is what I had enjoyed the most to be honest and experimenting with different colour choices and blending helps to choose which mixture of colours would be suitable for the illustration. Sometimes there could be more work into the mixture though the most important part is to play around with colour choices.
Final piece for the exercise. Figure drawing could of have been slightly better since I need to practice more and for the colours/setting I am certainly confident with, though there can be some minor adjustments/tweaks to tidy up and to blend objects/scenery together so they won’t feel as if they are just slapped on top of each other that would otherwise feel out of place.
