Illustration:Comic book research

Here I have looked into the different  speech bubbles that are commonly used in comic books.

    

These are the standardized comic book speech bubbles.They are lively yet simple which does the jobs as you don't want the speech bubble to overwhelm the graphics.

I think for my own comic book I am just going to stick with simple rounded speech bubbles.

Fight scene

This is great drawing showing the early stages of a comic book fight.I took note of this in my sketchbook as well of others. I love how the angle used shows the fluid motion and speed of the fight. 

I love the use of the lines in this comic book which shows movement.The scene in the middle particularly I think will help me as one of my scenes I pictured something like this.

I really like how the added a close up of of one the characters faces in the comic.

The uses of the sparks(?) in this one page really brings it to life! Though the characters are only stood in one position the used of onomatopoeias, speech and the way it is animated makes it seem love action. 

I really like how the the background changes from and out door setting to just colour as the focus leans more on the fight then the setting.

As there is going to be  a fight in my comic I have decided to research into how existing comic books have done there fight scenes.I looked at the angles used in each cell and how the artist represented the fluid motions of the fight: I looked at the colours used in the backgrounds, the way the lines in the background are angled to show movement and the onomatopoeias used.

I really like how the background on these makes the characters the focal point of the cell as well as how the white swooping lines show the movement of the characters. 

ILLUSTRATION

This is my finished short story/comic book.In short it is about a lone shoe who gets in trouble and is helped my another lone shoe.They live happily every after.(or do they?) 

Evaluation.

Right, overalll Id say my comic was OK, yeah the story line is little dry and predictable and my characters aren't really that developed but I think my fight scene is good to say my characters have no arms or legs! I used lines to show  movement which I think worked out alright, and I like my two onomatopoeias I think though they only took seconds to draw the bring a lot to the cell they are in.

Another thing I like is that the fight scene backgrounds are in colours opposed the dark shelf the others are set in. I saw this in a lot of the comics in researched into and I think it works as they stand out a lot and make the fight more animated.

One thing I don't like is the ending, as I was running out of time I feel like  had no choice but to just end it as I did. However seeing if though we are extending these under a new topic I think I'm going to make my character go on more of a finding-out-who-I-am journey, and developing the character a lot more whilst introducing new people before he meets the girl.

I think my drawings of the shoes are quite good though I didn't manage to do as many different angles of the shoes as I woud have liked.

Another thing I found is that I just from the pictures alone I thought that it was a bit confusing and I wanted to give the character some back story and some thoughts so I decided to do a chunk of writing on each page explaining what was happening. Though I could of done it in more of a conventional way , it was a very last minute thing so I decided just to type it where I had spare room.In retrospect I should of put in a groovy coloured box and placed it somewhere better.

Overall my favorite but of my comic is the middle page with the fight, then the first page and lastly the last page which I feel needs a lot more work doing to it. I feel the fight page is good to say they are shoes, and I really like how the background turned out.

Thankyou.

Illustration Research: The Walking Dead

The walking dead is a black on white comic book based on a group of survivors in an dilapidated world which has become overrun by the 'the walking dead' AKA zombies.

From what I have gathered by looking at pictures from Google the actual layout is quite simple with just the page separated in to rectangles. The dialogue is fitted into ordinary circular speech bubbles with the occasional onomatopoeia in stylised font.

These two pictures were taken from a website where the Artist for the walking dead wrote about the technique he uses to create the graphics. It's states he reads the script he is sent and the draws pictures which he feels depicts this. He draws the comic the same size as it would be printed. He doesn't do thumbnail sketchers as he finds his initial ideas is nearly always the best.

He starts off by simply drawing with a pencil the graphics

And then inks in the black.

And it's goes to printing.Simple. 

Illustration: inanimate object research

One area where animate inanimate objects is popular is on film and TV , In particular kids. Disney and Pixar films and TV shows are a great example where once inanimate object have been bought to life with they're own extravagant personalities.

One film which pops into mind is Disney's Beaut and the beast where the staff of a prince are turned into ordinary household objects.

Lumière// The Candlestick.

He is rebellious yet kind hearted. He often disobeys his master and he is seen frequently trying to court a fellow household object:Babette the feather duster.

Cogsworth// The Clock.

Best friend to Lumière, he is loyal to his master and is very serious.

Mrs Potts// Teapot.

Mrs Potts takes the motherly responsibility to belle and the beast.She is seen as wise and understand though strick at times.She is the mother to Chip.

Chip// Teacup.

Chip, the young son of Mrs Potts is adventurous and lively. He is also very brave as he saves belle and her father.

All these characters are lovable in their own way and are the ones who bring humour to an otherwise dreary film.

Some more examples of films which bring inanimated objects to life are ;

Toy Story

Cars