Sunday, 16 December 2012
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Red Riding Hood Book Cover Illustration
This is the book cover illustration done by me. I referenced some already existing book covers.
Illustrations on web
Book Covers
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Restart Fairy Tale
I was getting no where with Alice Adventure's in Wonderland. So I decided to move on and try out Red Riding Hood. The era I've chosen is the 60's. The theme would be a Fancy Dress Party.
There was a girl named Julie. She and her friends were invited to a fancy dress party. The theme was Once Upon a Time. So she decided to dress up as Red Riding hood.
At the party there was a guy named Joe. Joe was dressed as the Big Bad Wolf. He saw Red Riding Hood and offers her a drink.
But Red Riding Hood was told never to talk to strangers so she politely said no.
Joe was in fact a real werewolf in disguise as a normal human. He targeted Julie and followed her home.
Julie was walking alone on the street. The street lights were not working so she only had the moonlight to guide her home
Suddenly, she heard a werewolf's howl behind her.
She saw Joe from the party turned into a werewolf.
She screamed and ran for her life.
She was almost at her house when he caught her.
He opened his mouth ready to eat her up.
Then, there was a gun fire.
The wolf dropped dead on the floor.
Her father heard her scream from before and rushed out to save her.
Book Cover Sketches
Final Book Cover Illustration
Sketches according to feedback given
Chibi
Mask Designs
Chibi + Mask
Chibi Mad Hatter
Trying Out Own style
Trying out simpler strokes
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Fairy Tale presentation
For this presentation I researched on the fairytale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
The story is about growing up.
Experiencing different stages of life.
In the original story, Alice has been questioned many times to identify herself.
At times she was mistaken to be someone else.
It describes how a child sees the adult world.
Our task is to interpret the original story through illustrations.
The end product that I have chosen is a picture book for children of age 5-8.
the aim of the assignment is to re-interpret a character and place him/her in today's/tomorrows context. We are to create a narrative continuity but must change the historical context of the tale and bring it into a different era of time.
I have decided to incorporate SiChuan's Face Changing Chinese Opera to Alice's story.
The characters in the story would have half a mask.
These masks are what represents the character like their personality, interest, status and so on.
In the Face Changing Chinese Opera, the masks all represent different types of emotions and feelings to show to the audience.
Feedback from Lecturer :
- The incorporation of the Chinese Opera mask is interesting. But having half a mask reminds him on the Phantom of the Opera which is to hide his disfigured face.
-The Face Changing masks can sometimes also look very scary. Since this is a picture book for younger children, it might scare them.
- Maybe could come up with more pleasant looking masks.
- Characters could have a more chibi look. The snowman concept. Big head, medium body, small legs.
- Like the colours and glowing effect used for mockup but suggests that I should use more solid colours.
- Should have more solid shapes and forms of the characters.
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