Posts

Week 1 Sep 14-20

Begin character design

Research history of witches

Week 2 Sep 21-27

Finish character design

Decide on narrative, write out in story format

Week 3 Sep 28-Oct 4

Break down narrative into scenes

Loosely sketch each scene

Week 4 Oct 5-11

2nd sketch of scenes

Final sketch

Week 5 Oct 12-18

Lineart of each illustration

Flat color

Week 6 Oct 19-25

Finish coloring

Start shading

Week 7 Oct 26-Nov 1

Finish shading

Add effects

Week 8 Nov 2-8

Print/finalize digital images

Week 9 Nov 9-15

Present finished product

For this project, I intend to expand on a project from a previous class – a series of animations about a witch and her day-to-day adventures. These can be found on my Vimeo. For this project, I decided I’d like to do a series of illustrations about this same character. I want these to be a cohesive sequence that tell a story without animation or text to accompany it. Below I’m providing some steps about how I can develop this idea.

The first consideration I have is how to design the character and settle on style. Because she is no longer animated, it allows me a lot of room to add more detail to her design. Then I will need to decide on a narrative to carry through the work. The last step I need is to determine the pacing and flow, which scenes in the narrative do I want to illustrate.

The following images are samples of my own artwork that contain style elements I want to implement in this project.

I want to include background details and effects like the fist image, and more complex shading like in the 2nd