First task was to recreate the colour wheel. Then to make an accurate grey scale. Then to use the format of the grey scale to create another scale using a secondary colour from the colour wheel. I found the scales challenging because the colours had to be just right so that if you squinted the colours would look blended together. Alough I think I manged to execute it pretty well.
Artist Research
Anne Yvonne Gibert-
Anne Yvonne Gibert-
- Pencil colour, pencil
- Cluttered space
- Rough paper I.e water colour paper
- Watercolour for base then coloured pencil for detail
- 80% realism
- Seamless shading
- Use of pencil lines
- Mystical characters
- Flowers
- black watercolour for shading
- Dip pen and blended pencil
- Dipping ink, letting the ink run
- Water colour
- Pencil crayons
- Thin outlines
- Patterned shapes, tiles/windows/bricks
- Black and white studies
- charcoal
- Acrylic dry brush effect
- Simple shapes and forms
- Ink Cross hatching
- Likes sky/clouds
- Serial scale of objects
- Unique mark making
The task you see below was to create an image using only letters to represent words.
Next task- create 3 book covers for The Chair. Using the styles of the artists above. One for a children's book. One for a psychological horror and one for a Sci fi.
I did a lot of these thumb nails in colour as it helped to show what the idea was, better than if it was just black and white. After completing the thumbnails it was important to practice each artists style to get a feel for how they use the media. This meant that my book covers would look more identical to the artists style.
After practising the artists style I could then chose which one to use for which book. I decided on Anne for children's book, Charles for the psychological horror and Brad for Sci fi. Anne has a more softer approach to her use of colour which I thought would be perfect to create a colourful and playful child's book cover. Charles on the other hand creates quite dark and challenging black and white pieces so it made sense to use his use of dip pens and water colour to capture the feeling I needed for a psychological horror. Then Charles use if thick acrylic paint meant I could make the key elements of the Sci fi cover pop out againt the black background.
Comic-
The last project involved choosing a song and creating a comic for it. I chose Jolity farm. The song is quite cheerful and talks about all the animals being cheerful on the farm. Rather than follow the lyrics and have the animals being happy I decided to flip it and go down another path of the animals dying one by one. This sounds like quite a sinister comic so I designed it in the style of a children's book, with bold colours and simple features.
The last project involved choosing a song and creating a comic for it. I chose Jolity farm. The song is quite cheerful and talks about all the animals being cheerful on the farm. Rather than follow the lyrics and have the animals being happy I decided to flip it and go down another path of the animals dying one by one. This sounds like quite a sinister comic so I designed it in the style of a children's book, with bold colours and simple features.
Next I added the text to finish of my comic.