Illustration and Visual Narrative

Illustration and Visual Narrative

NAME:  FENG SHIWEN

I.D:  0374595

COURSE: Bachelor  of Design in Creative Media

GROUP:  4 

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INSTRACTION

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Week 1 :

Mr.Hafiz taught us about Adobe Illustrator workspace and toolbars, showed us illustrations and visual storytelling, and introduced us to some module information. The aim of this module is to introduce students to the process of creating visual concepts from ideas and communicating images to the audience in the form of illustrations.

Week 2 :

Mr. Hafiz introduced the game "the bezier game" in class, which gave us a better understanding of how to use the pen tool.

Week 3 :

This week we learnt more about Adobeillustration and Mr Hafiz showed us how to create graphics using the pen tool.

Mr Hafiz introduced us to the Vormator Challenge :

Week 4

-  CHIAROSCURO

The use of light and dark tocreate the illusion of three-dimensional volume on a flat

surface.

The purpose of chiaroscuro is to increase the scene’s dramatic tension by exaggerating the subject’s importance using color or light contrast.

-  LOW-KEY LIGHTING

A style of lighting for photography, film or television.It accentuates the contours of the

subject by throwing areas into shade while a fill light or reflector may illuminate the shadow areas to control contrast.

-  CHIAROSCURO IS USED IN VISUALNARRATIVE BECAUSE

This method is an excellent lighting choice to differentiate positive vs negative spaces

NCREASE DRAMATIC TENSION : Gives thrilling emotive depth on the look and feel in the scene

CREATE SENSATIONAL  EFFECT: Helps elevate fantasticalviewpoints to emphasis on the narrative

ATTRACT ATTENTION : Establish visual hierarchy, the main point of the scene

MAKE TASTEFUL COMPOSITION : The play on negative VS positive spaces creates

attractive scenes

Week 7

Composition Theory 3

Fore, Mid, and Background

1. Composition: Composition refers to the way an image is laid out and organised.

2. Techniques: There are a number of techniques that can help you to better organise your compositions and, if used correctly, can take a work of art to a higher level.

3. Attracting the audience's attention: By using these techniques appropriately, you can make the artwork more able to attract the audience's attention and make it more noticeable.

 INTRO

1. Scene Composition: When composing a scene, it is important to effectively convey a sense of space.

2. Spatial hierarchy: By including a foreground (close to the viewer), a midground, and a background (away from the viewer) in the image, a sense of scale is immediately conveyed to the viewer.

3. Sense of Scale: This method of composition helps the viewer to immediately perceive the size and distance relationships of the objects in the image.

Arranging Subject Matter

- Foreground Focus:

1. Foreground Arrangement: You can arrange your subject in the foreground

2. Example: Highlight the foreground as the main focus by using size differences and colour contrasts

- Middle-ground Focus：

1. Mid-range arrangement: You can arrange the focal point in the mid-range

2. Example: Highlight the main focal point by using size differences and contrasting light and shadow

- Background Focus:

1. Background Arrangement: You can arrange the focal point at the furthest point of vision, i.e. the background

2. Example: Highlight the main focal point by using shapes and contrasting light and shadow

- Design Flow

A good arrangement of visual focal points in the foreground, midground and background should be able to show a sense of movement and rhythm in the design. This is referred to as the Design Flow

- Definition

Design flow is the way your eye moves or is guided through a composition. A design with good flow smoothly guides the viewer's eye as it moves through the layout, from one element to anothe

- Importance

Your visual design should be able to influence the way your audience digests your content.

This is especially important in the interface design and information design genres, as you need to combine text, lines, contrast, colour and imagery

LAB

Chiaroscuro

 LIGHT AND SHADOW

Illustrated Type

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TASK 1

Vormator Challenge

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TASK 2

Pokemon Card 

We were asked by the teacher to devise a composition that effectively used foreground, middle ground, and background to tell a soft story about the characters.

First I did some optimization on my Pokemon, and then I designed a forest-themed set for it, with glowing plants in the foreground, Sylvia in the middle, and a dreamlike forest in the back. I used some blue and purple halos to highlight the quiet environment of the forest.

Card :

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Assignment 1  -Fly Me To The Moon

Sketch :

After listening to the song fly me to the moon, I decided to design a poster about the moon. The song is known to have been played on the moon during the Apollo moon landing, making it the first human song to be played on the moon. I think Nasa astronauts on the moon as the foreground asa prominent theme, the middle scene is the huge solar system, the rear scene is the vast starry sky.

The Apollo mission was the first human landing on the moon, which was of great significance to the future human exploration in the space field. Then I chose a lyric in the song "Let me see what spring is like" for the design, just as the draft shows that plants like stars are planted on the moon.I feel that this is a very warm picture, like planting seeds of hope in the desert. 

Because this is a jazz song, and the melody and lyrics are very romantic, so I designed two astronauts, and in the subsequent production, I used warm colors to paint, more reflecting the pleasant atmosphere rather than the quiet cold of the universe.

Animation :

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Reflections

Through these weeks of study, I have a better understanding of the use of adobe series software, such as the skillful use of pen tool to create graphics and path text tools. I can better present my ideas in my works and overcome many difficulties that could not be solved before. I believe that I can make better works in the future study