Illustrated Book Project -5

5th Progress

Here are my sketches for the entire comic spread. Oh yea, I did forget to mention, I am doing in a comic format because for the time being, it is the best format to tell my long story, short.

There are certain images above that are repetitive because I found that I needed to add in or make some changes in that page to improve the visuals in storytelling.

Illustrated Book Project -4

4th Progress

Artist reference found on the web for inspirations!

Here (above) are some work done by Mikkel Sommer, an illustrator/ comic artist from Copenhagen. I like the way he use gestural lines and soft muted colours to illustrate his works.

Here (above) are works from another illustrator, Natalie Andrewson. Her choices of colours are just simply astonishing and her strokes that adds in texture into the background makes the entire piece really ...wow!

Illustrated Book Project -3

3rd Progress

Decided on the story! But still finding interesting little details to improve the plot.

(Story Point form)

- The story starts off with a young boy who doesn't really bother on whatever people like to talk about in school, because he couldn't understand why people love to talk about every single little thing that happened to them!

- But he was an imaginative one, so there were always a lot of weird things going on in the boy's mind. So life in school was like the usual for him. And eventually, class was over. He immediately ran home.

- Upon reaching home, the boy was hungry and went to seek his mother. His mother was the average housewife, added with the love of chit-chatting on the phone all day. While busy chatting on the phone, the boy was asked to go to the kitchen and get himself something to eat.

- The boy was a little angry with him mom's attitude, but still went to the kitchen and got himself a bread. After that, he ran upstairs to his room and begin to act like his mom in front of the mirror.

- Later on, dad was back. Dad was fun to be around with, the boy thought. But maybe that day was a busy day for dad, so after dinner, dad would just sit in front of the television and enjoy some movies while resting.

- Boy decided to go back to his room after dinner and play with his old toys, although he was bored of it already. Suddenly he heard a voice, coming from somewhere. He turned around and saw the mirror was actually talking, or rather something inside the mirror is inviting him to come over to play.

- The boy hesitated, but he wanted to have some fun. So he decided to bring along his old toys and enter the mirror world. As bizarre as it sounds, the other side of the mirror was actually the same as his room, just like a reflection of the exact same thing but something was different... everything there were alive.

- The boy enjoyed playing there along with all living things that were around him. Even the voice from the mirror appear before him, turned out to be a silhouette of himself, and of course played with the boy too. Things were fun when out of the sudden, he heard his mother's voice through the mirror, asking for the boy's whereabouts.

- The boy decided to go back to the real world but things started to go all weird. The silhouette expression was getting more intimidating. The other creatures were starting to stop the boy from going back.

- The silhouette slowly grew larger in size and became a weird looking monster. The boy knew he had to escape from this world. But how?

- Old toys to the rescue! The boy was shocked that the toys were alive but was glad at the same time. The boy managed to break free from the creature's cage.

- They tried to ran towards the mirror. It was tough, but they made through it somehow. But this time, there was a long tunnel to get into the other side. The boy and his old toys had to hurry before those creatures catch up on them.

- They were almost there, when suddenly something grab and hold onto the boy's leg. He turned back and saw the silhouette monster. He decided to fought back and never to return to the mirror world.

- Boy managed to return to his room, but his toys were no longer alive. At the right moment, his mom was knocking on the door. The boy was glad to see her.

- Mom found him weird for acting so worried all of the sudden, and decided to ask him to sleep over. The boy was happy to! and The end.

Illustrated Book Project -2

2nd Progress

Critiques from lecturer:

1. "Edward Scissorhands," the story itself is already memorable enough for most of the people who had watched it, so even if I really do create a new look for it, it will never be as good as the original one.

2. Plus, note that students are require to write out our own version of a story, not literally taking everything from an existing story. Try to reconsider and deconstruct the original idea of "Edward Scissorhands", and from there, come out with an interesting story from a different perspective, like Warm Bodies for example.

So after the critique session, I have came out with certain keywords for brainstorming after deconstructing the idea behind "Edward Scissorhands" :

1. Reanimation. The idea of Edward Scissorhands, the man-made machine/ creature/ thing that was brought to life and have emotions like a human being. Similar to Frankenstein and frankenweenie.

2. Unique Perspective. Movies like Edward Scissorhands talks about a machine/creature desperately dreams to be normal and romance, while Frankenstein wants to find a place he could belong to and Warm Bodies, the movie is not yet but the plot is interesting to talk about an undead somehow is able to feel again and falls in love with this girl.

3. Death. Most of Tim Burton's movies are dark 'humour-ish' and related to death. I found that people are somehow interested in things that is not logic, like giving life to death itself. I will consider from the thought of it.

4. Target Audience. Choosing the right target audience will set myself in a direction/tone for my story, and also the way of storytelling it.

Illustrated Book Project

1st Progress

The brief of this project was to write, illustrate and produce a 15 page (minimum) narrative story of my choice.

 

 

 

 So I first came out with the story of my choice: Edward Scissorhands
The entire story is based on the movie itself, by Tim Burton But I did not intend to do the same art style as it was in the movie, so I went and research on some of the works done by other artists. 
Here are some examples:

*Note that these images are not done by me. :)