City Model Work

Factories Work

In one lesson, in preparation for the "No staples" reference list books, the class was split into groups to focus on 3 parts involved in making these books - textures, lists and inking. Here are some photos of the "inking" group that I was part of.

City Models

Using boxes and paint, among a small variety of other bits and pieces, the class created models of buildings for a town or a city. Once completed, they were photographed with variations of lighting and perspectives.



















 





 

"KING-CAT"-Inspired Comic

We created an A5 small-press book in the style of John Porcellino's autobiographical series of small-press books: "KING-CAT".  Here is mine:

Illustrator Characters

We drew simplistic characters by hand on paper, scanned them in, then opened them with Adobe Illustrator and vectored them. We then took some photos around the school and used Photoshop to put our characters into the photo, adding shadow for realism.

 

Evaluation

A piece I experimented with different processes includes my Illustrator character, which I originally sketched its design on paper with pencil, but then scanned it in and used Adobe Illustrator’s vector tool to create it and then Photoshop to put the character into various photos.  It was pretty fun to do and taught me quite a bit more about the two programs.  Unfortunately the process of Illustrator did have its limitations – vectoring in Illustrator takes a long time, and it does not allow for much detail. 

Drawing Skills

These are observational drawings, using various techniques such as a grid square to help perspective and proportion.

These are observational drawings without a grid square.

These were "blind contour" - drawing the indents and wrinkles in a hand without looking at the drawing, in order to be able to master detail and tone.