Concept Illustrations

Project Brief

Description: create three illustrations that clearly demonstrate a concept

The sender: Me, the illustrator, or the magazine publisher

Message: Lucifer- pride, lying, playing your cards right. Beelzebub- greed, gluttony, disease. Astaroth- Self doubt, laziness, and temptation.

Audience: adults ages 18-30 with some religious or occult knowledge

Purpose and objective: to show representations of how people view the personifications of these sins/attributes

Specifications: three 8.5X10 sheets

Project schedule: due December 11th

After doing some initial concept sketches I searched the internet for references and scrap.

At first I thought about posing Astaroth like this, but I received feedback that said he should be lying on his side.

My final illustrations ended up being black, white, grey and one color. I forgot that one of them is meant to be black and white, but Lucifer could easily be black and white without issue. Personally I found Lucifer to be the strongest illustration, but most people believed it was Beelzebub. I agreed that Astaroth is the weakest composition considering he is somewhat fighting for dominance with his creature.

Reading Seven

Illustrator Presentation

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Illustrated Narrative

Project Brief 

Description: create a two page graphic novel spread that tells a story

The sender: Me, the author

Message: rebel against the man

Audience: adults 19-35 mostly females

Purpose and objective: to give an overall sneak peek of tone and meaning of the novel itself

Specifications: two 11×17 sheets

Project schedule: due November 20th

Characters: Vex- heroine, Dr. Faustus- antagonist

Setting: Coldwater city- a rainy, foggy, dirty, Victorian city.

Plot: Becoming the thing you are fighting against

Narrative blurb: "You're not a hero, you're nothing but another brainwashed soldier this city churns out like trained hounds- too afraid to bite the hand that punishes it. To make a change you have to pull the trigger.

You have to twist the limb to snap the bone of dogma-
But you don't have the strength.
You never will."
Action: Antagonist Dr. Faustus is grabbing the heroines arm and twisting it at an uncomfortable angle

To start off I thought I would go the 6 panel book route, but after some sketching and consideration, I decided to go with a 2 page graphic novel spread instead.  There wasn't enough space in only six panels. 

My first draft I did on paper and it was very traditionally blocked in like most comics are. The first page did not end up changing as much as the second page, which I completely re-drew to better fit the situation. I got rid of much of the square panels.

Here my feedback was to have darker, flatter blacks and more contrasts. As well as to include more red on page 2. Many comments said the text was hard to read when it was layered over the image like this. I was also told to include the jagged motif on the first page in the second. 

In the final I decided to darken all the blacks and add a harsh white outline to help the figures stand out. I added more red to symbolize oppression and danger encroaching on the figure of the girl in the middle. For the first page I went with a more traditional panel by panel, but in the second I decided to make it more of a splash page that looks like a mirror shattering. I had also gotten some advice on the writing- I was told to put it on another page because there was no space for them, and I agreed. 

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Reading Three