Lesson Six

Overall Process:

I would do a few different poses for each bird to try and figure out which poses were the most accurate at expressing what Simon wrote.
After this I would outline with a graphic pen, scan it into photoshop and draw over the base layer.
In some instances I used Illustrator to turn some outlines into vectors but I preferred hand drawing my images!
Below are some examples 

My proposal:

For my interpretation of Stop Thief! I wanted to create a vibrant and cartoon styled comic to be exciting to the viewers eye. I wanted to capture the readers attention by using light tones to emphasise a positive vibe without being too overpowering to read the story.
I like to make my illustrations as light hearted and expressive as possible so that no matter what the age my audience can enjoy what they are seeing regardless of age. To older people this is a nice comic, and to younger people they can laugh along with the expressive reactions of my characters.

Lesson Five

This is my comic so far:

Lesson Four

Finalised concept designs, studies and outlines (ba boom):

Which then turned into this finalised cover design : 

Which THEN turned into:
(this was my submission for our outlines, which I did not quite finish / hadn't entirely figured out how to draw everything (oops))

Lesson Three

After designing the characters to a style I like, this is my creation for the Stop Thief! cover and character shee, along w my submission for the outlined work:

Lesson Two

In class today we had explained to us the positioning of each of the characters and where each panel must fit on the page.
This made it all the more challenging considering we had to fit a tight layout plan.

After sketching out all the designs of my charactersI threw the pictures into photoshop to get a further understanding of the layout and colour palette of my charatcers and backgrounds.

I did 3 versions of background on my tablet:

and then 2 on photoshop:

ultimately this is what im up to

Lesson 1

This class was all about designing characters and being sure to have expressive designs to capture the characters clearly.
7-8 year olds are a the literary stage where they cannot have images served to them so easily -- they need to have less obvious visuals so they can figure things out and group words together and make associations in a different way.

This lesson I mostly drew birds to understand what they look like, and took lots of references from Zealandia on Wednesday. I also referenced lots of black women and white male cartoon styles, as well as using a class mate as a reference to understand different angles of the anatomy.