a little sneak peak on the 20 page comic

Today we worked with test pages. Trying to find out the style for our comic. This is a tuff decision because you have to think about what is even possible for the amount of time you will have to finish it. I made these two examples, and think I will go with the upper example. I like the ruff feeling in the line quality.

 

My story will be about a Giant Woman, a group of tiny men and a bird.

 

Last week was one week with a wizard.

The maker of the Taynikma comic series 

Murlin P. Mann

In this week we studies story structure and how to split up your story and put it in a simple and clear form. 

We made an Outline and a storyline for our story. 

Here is my PITCH: 

Artem Alexev - life drawing class. Sketching

 

 In Last week we went back to classic sketching an life model drawing. Trough the week we had one model to pose for us in 1 - 5 minutes poses; working with ink, markers and pencil. The focus was form and shape, mass and movement.
 The last two days We worked more artistically - making characters and creating an image out from a life modil thinking in "abstract" - and in a clear graphic sense.

The drawing below are sketches. Trough the week. More to come.  

 

Design With Lawrence Marvitt

The first week of design was really an aye opener. We worked with composition in it's pure and simple form - though figuring out that this is not as simple as it may seem.

 

Looking at great master painters and graphics I realized that the simplicity of the composition in contrast to the complicated techniques is the answer of an strong image.

 

Trough the week we had some different assignment - some more abstract than others.

First we should make a composition of three rectangles creating as dynamic picture as possible . No one really succeeded this.  

 

The next assignment was to work with making clear pictures - describing a "taste".

 

We got handed out a peace of chocolate and should  now then in words and poetry try to describe the taste of dark chocolate within a feeling - a place - a mood or a memory.

When you have decided your "poetry" you should then create a clear abstract image that would described your atmosphere of the taste.

I had some troubles deciding but in the end I went for

"Corn field after thunderstorm" /Corn field just before storm breaks out.

This was some of the images I did (though I see they are not "clear" in the respect of my sentence)

 

 

 

The next assignment was to do the same - now with sound in stead of taste.

We should hear the album of Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" and make a graphic of the mood in the tunes.

I Now see I went for the wrong one.

"Mustage blowing playfull in the wind"

 

The last assignment was over two days (the others was one day assignments)
We should come up with a strong simple image with a Clear focus point in the theme
CIRKUS OF DEATH:
This is my result. (working for the first time in photoshop)

 

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