After several months and back and forth of feedback, my graphic novel is complete. Before jumping into the final product, I wanted to go back and look at what advice my tutor had for me before I sent my work off to be printed. My speech bubbles stood out too much, and overall looked quite distracting— it looked too out of place with the overall style of the graphic novel. I ended up playing around with different grey tones to see what would stand out enough but still suit the

Since my last submission of assignment, I have been working on many pages of the story; still unsure what to define this story as, whether it's a comic, graphic novel, or manga. The story itself is now complete, and I am in the refining stages, getting feedback from fellow students and my tutor; the next step would be sending it off to be printed with MIXAM. There were a lot of challenges with this section, motivation was the biggest. Throughout this project I was dealing wit

Since beginning this project, I had already set in mind what format I wanted my project, where I wanted to go to get my story printed and I roughly knew how much it was going to cost me. The following is 3 business that provide local printing services and their cost: You Love Print UK Portrait 12.7 x 19.1 cm Perfect Binding Silk (130 gsm) Cover((+4) Coloured Silk (250gsm)) Soft Touch Lamination For 10 = £76.70 For 4 = £76.80 Book Printing UK Paperback (180x270mm) Portrait 115

For this research task, I have to reflect on notes and questions posed by my tutor about my self-directed project.; the bold text are exerts of the feedback. Consider carefully moments where the readers hands/feet come into view, how will you make it clear that these belong to the reader, even if they are very different to the reader that is holding the book? To make the reader involved and incorporate their hands into the book is with the use of perspective, and use gloved h

The past few weeks of producing my project has had it's ups and downs; going into understanding the character and how the story will be laid out became a difficult task in itself considering my mental health over the past few weeks. With balance however, I was able to create something that would contribute to the project despite the perfectionist side of me not liking it. Character Designs/Actions I had a little play around with the characters but I was really unhappy with ho

For this research task, I need to look into my tutor's feedback and discuss the comments made, what adjustments are need and any other concerns that my tutor has and reflect on them. Positively, there was a lot of focus on development of my character designs, pushing them further by exploring different angles, walking exercises; anything to develop my characters further-- and breathing life into them. Working off that feedback, I'll be sure to create more development around m

Script writing First things first, writing the story; Luckily I bought a comic recently called 'Brink' by Dan Abnett and Ian Culbard and at the back of this comic had a exert of the script. Looking at it, I used that to help me layout and write my own script for my story. Several days later, I got a good friend of mine to read through the script and give me feedback on what needed more work with it. I'll avoid uploading the script here for spoilers sake ;) Character/Monster S

I'm struggling with coming up with a good critical review after my previous critical reviews, I've changed my topic again in the hopes of trying something new and different but I will have to see if it meets the needs of the critical review requirements.

This research task allows me to reflect on my tutor's feedback on my self-directed project. "The question I think you should ask yourself however, is why am I doing this? Do you just want to tick the box and crack on with the next unit of your degree as soon as possible, or do you want to create something and learn from creating it?" The big thing that came up on my feedback which I had expected was the deadline. I had set myself an achievable goal but was way too ambitious,

For this assignment, I have to now think about what my self-directed project will be; I have to write a brief for the project and show my timescale/schedule, as well as showing anything that helped me develop this idea for my project. Brief I would like a black and white graphic novel using a manga format, the cover design can be in colour but must feel cohesive to the story. The amount of pages must be longer than 48 but less than 200; said novel must be aimed at 18 and olde

For this assignment, I will chose a saying (below), and create an illustration that contradicts my chosen saying. Sayings: Good things come to those who wait. Money can’t buy happiness. There’s more fish in the sea. The grass is always greener. Don’t judge a book by its cover. They lived happily ever after. The early bird catches the worm. What you see is what you get. A leopard can’t change its spots. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. A

For this research task, I had to take a look at the different ways that different artists approach the story of Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Robert Andrew Parker 1 Robert Andrew Parker's adaptation, 1994, etching and aquatint. The illustration presents itself after the transformation and styled in a way that creates really interesting shadows with very minimal amount of line-making; only a focus on shape language, exploring dark shadows then following up to the beetle. Overa