First look at the Red Terror!

First look inside my children's book!

Bear in mind this is a first draft and the final thing is actually been done on photoshop using textured paper and things, all this is just for layout and fun things like that ^^

6 weeks left!

Only 6 weeks of my project left then it's assessment. We'd been told 4 weeks and then 12 weeks so it's been a little confusing.
Lucky for me I'd timetabled my project to be done in 4 weeks so now i have an extra week :D
I'd thought I'd post my to-do list up here so that whenever I'm distracted on here I'll see it.
You'll see it get crossed off every day or so :D
Behold my cunning plan.
1. Make a draft book for Jon's mom to take into her primary school.
2. Make changes according to child feedback.
3. Look into pop up features or lift the flap.
4. Start InDesign sheets.
5. Contact printers.
6. Look into 2nd storyline for reverse side of the book.

This is nothing compared to what I'm actually doing as I'm having to improve every project I've ever done :S
I guess it's bedtime at 6am again.
Red Terror out.

Inside my Project

Inside my sketchbook

The Life and Times of the Infamous Red Terror

 This sketchbook is for my Final Major Project. I will be creating a character based on myself as a toddler who will go on adventures and get into trouble. The stories are meant as Cautionary Tales and will be a series.

Research.

Dictionary defintions of the word 'Personal'

 

The first five google images when you type in 'Childhood Memories'

The contents of the envelope of memories: My baby photos.

The original 'Cautionary Tales'

Tony Ross and Maurice Sendak

Eric Carle and the beginning of character development

Development.

17 pages of research. This research has actually really helped me in terms of style, even though I chose to use my own style in the end. I used my own style because all three of the artists I chose to research had their own unique style.

        Also because nothing comes more easily than drawing in your own style and I wanted these drawings to just flow out of my pen.

The first attempt. I didn't like the eyes or hair.

Version 2 with new eyes and hair.

I took inspiration for the eyes from Disney looking at many of the Disney Artist's styles.

Proportion research and emotion chart.



Version Three. The head was too small.



Action poses

I asked people in my class their opinions using these.

Version Four: I hope the last.

Production.



The Red Terror and The Grasshopper

One day the Red Terror was playing with her set of plastic insects: a beetle, a snail, a spider, an ant, a slug, a wasp, a ladybird and a grasshopper. The grasshopper was her favorite. She loved everything about it.

She also loved making shadows on the wall with the lamp. Suddenly she had an idea. Use the grasshopper to make a scary shadow and frighten mommy.

She balanced the grasshopper on the carefully and ran out of the room.

MOMMY! MOMMY! THERE'S A MONSTER!

She yelled at her mommy. When she ran into the front room there was a horrible smell and the shadow she'd made before had vanished.

Her grasshopper had turned into a horrible green gloop smoking on top of the lamp. She lifted up her grasshopper quickly leaving sticky slime trails on the lamp. Its legs had dissolved and melted. It burnt her hand.

She screamed and dropped the grasshopper onto the floor. Mommy picked up the grasshopper and put it into the sink to cool down.

The Red Terror was very upset that her toy was ruined and she would never put her toys onto the lamp again.



A first draft storyboard

Images from the storyboard around the text.

Mixed media experimentation for the imagination scene.

A draft book showing the layout of images & text on the pages.



One full A3 sketchbook?
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Any Questions?

Please give feedback if you have anything to say, it's greatly appreciated.

The life and times of the Infamous Red Terror

I'm currently in my final year of an Art and Design course.

We're focusing now on our Final Major Project, the FMP. The FMP ends with the Final Show where we will exhibit our work.
Our lecturers are only here to organise the Final Show and give us advice on our work. The brief's have to written ourselves, we make all the decisions.
My theme is based on Childhood Memories but more importantly the phrase

         "The Idealised World Of Childhood."

I've decided to create a series of illustrated children's books with my younger self as the main character where I get up to mischief. I always get what I deserve in the end and the aim for the books to act as a Cautionary Tale to help children learn consequences of their actions and keep them safe.

The title of these books are based on my childhood nickname:

The Life And Times Of The Infamous Red Terror

Prepare for the Red Terror...

Stop Start Aniamtion

An American Werewolf In London

My first attempt at Stop Start, I made this about a year ago late one night using a pad of A3 paper,a table lamp, my camera and my beloved lego figures.

I find it easiest using Stopstart aniamtion than anything else.

I find that with Lego I can grab a handful from the box, lay them out and make a story with the random characters I've selected. it's easy to swap hair/face/clothes with Lego to. The face of the Werewolf is to begin with a hun, then a weighlifter(with sweat) and finally the Werewolf. So easy!

Lego almost makes the story for you.

I enjoyed drawing the 'set' too. Drawing is my specalism and the best part of this project was using paper to cover up old drawings to create the 'open cell' or 'smashed wall'. I love the fact there's a new window with the moon showing after the moon rises. It's so subtle but it just helps :)

This isn't really a copy of any Werewolf film, maybe more of the1941 Wolfman with Lon Chaney Jr than anything and maybe the 2010 remake with the whole mental asylum.

It's only set in London so I could draw some awesome scenery later, I just love the title :)