Illustration and Visual Storytelling - Project 3: Digital Triptcyh

 November.30.2023

Lin chenyi / 0367008 / week10-week11

Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Illustration and Visual Narrative

Project 3: Digital Triptcyh

1.LECTURE

Week 10: Task 3 BriefingThe meaning of drainage ditch:

The gutter in comics plays a vital role in allowing endings to occur because it stimulates time and action when the reader uses the ending.

It acts as an invisible messenger in the comics, delivering a message while being nothing more than an empty space.

A comic strip introducing Scott McCloud. McLeod describes six types of panel-to-panel transitions, each requiring a different degree of closure on the part of the reader.

transition

• Action to Action: Transitions showing a single subject's progress through specific actions.
• Topic to Topic: The transition stays within a specific scene or idea and requires more reader involvement.
• Scene to scene: Transformations occur over significant distances in time and space.
• Aspect to Aspect: Unique in that it shows different aspects happening simultaneously in the same scene.

Fig 1.1Scene transition

Week 10 Lecture Slides:

INSTRUCTIONS

2.Project 3: Digital Triptcyh

Part 1: Research

Before starting my project, Mr. Hafez explained my number Triptcyh to us in class. It allows us to understand the requirements and comprehensive appearance, summary and other information of this project. Mr. Mainly uses a work of art (HIERONYMUS BOSCH) Garden of Joy on Earth

Example analysis. 

I learned that Triptcyh is usually a piece of art, in the form of panel artwork, these triptychs are designed to be read from left to right, with each panel contributing to the overall meaning of the artwork. It is generally divided into three parts, with a central picture and two auxiliary pictures hinged together to form a complete painting. The connecting part can be folded closed or opened for display. The three panels become a unified work of art in the eyes of the viewer.

 Fig 2.1

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490-1510. Oil on oak panel, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid 

This artwork showcases

center panel

The central panel of the triptych shares a consistent skyline and positioning with the left wing, creating a spatial connection between the two scenes. It depicts a vast "garden" landscape.

right panel

The right panel of the triptych depicts Hell.

left panel

The left panel of the triptych, often called the Union of Adam and Eve, depicts the scene in the Garden of Eden in which God presents Eve to Adam.

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I looked for some modern comic triptychs:

 Fig 2.2Triptych Akimov Blake and Mortimer The Time Trap (2022)

 Fig 2.3 black and white triptych

3.Panel sketch

For the layout sketch, I decided to start showing the legend of the Ghost Mother from a positive narrative perspective. I narrate the entire story from the perspective of the climax through a scene-to-scene timeline. The first scene shows the climax of the second scene caused by the quarrel between the two parties. The change in the ghost mother's form in the later period is a small climax in the later period. It is shown in the picture through the actions and modalities of both parties.

Here are the rough outlines of my three scenarios:

• Chapter 1: In the early stages of the climax, when they sat down to chat, the ghost mother wanted Coraline to stay with her in this world, but Coraline was hesitant and finally refused the ghost mother's request, resulting in a series of quarrels.
• Chapter 2: At the climax, when the ghost mother heard that Coraline was unwilling to stay and wanted to forcibly seal the home, the ghost mother began to change into a ghost shadow chasing Coraline.
• Chapter 3: Later climax, the ghost mother's form transforms into a tall spider with slender limbs, and the ghost mother sews new buttons on Coraline's eyes. (Coraline did not escape her mother's control in the end).

Fig 3.1 Pre-climax, decisive moment, post-climax sketch panel

 4. Panel digitization

 Fig 4.1 Urban Legends Digital Panel

I imported the sketch into Adobe Illustrator and started to digitize the first panel, depicting the origin of the fragment. Then I used the pen tool to outline the form of the characters, using the two important figures as the mid-ground. The tables and chairs are in the distance, the scene is bright, and in a harmonious state, a quarrel suddenly breaks out due to disagreements between the two parties. It can be seen from the picture that the ghost mother is in a dominant position, and Coraline cannot refute it at all when she is angry (this can be seen from her facial expression and slightly hunched body shape.

Fig 4.2 Beginning

In the second digitized panel, I placed Coraline in the foreground to better reflect the change in Coraline's demeanor when being chased, and the fear of opening her mouth to breathe. The ghost mother's shadow is the mid-ground part, and the shadow slowly grows from small to large, and stretches out her fingers that become slender. Use the noise brush to add some shadows to distinguish the before and after changes in the picture.

Fig 4.3 Decisive moment

Fig 4.3 Decisive moment gif

In the second digital panel, Coraline's back is still in the foreground. From the beginning, she was completely submissive and has been completely controlled by the ghost mother who changed her form. I used a gradient effect in the hair to indicate Coraline's psychological state. changes, thus becoming more lonely. As a side view, the ghost mother sews Coraline's eyes with a needle, hoping that she will become like herself and stay in the world she "made up" forever.

Fig 4.4 End

FEEDBACK

Week 10：

Mr. Hafiz thinks that the background of my animation of the decisive moment is too complicated and messy. He needs to remove the background for further corrections. He hopes that I will add some shadows of the characters and teach us how to use brushes to draw them in a separate communication. shadow.

Week 11:

Mr. Hafiz thought that my sketch of the triptych was very well done, and he hoped that the background of the subsequent triptych could be pure white to highlight the characters, and the background should not be too complicated. (Showed me some examples of solid color backgrounds in PPT)