Project 1: Comic Book
Exercise 1
Create a 8-page comic book based on a nursery rhyme. The nursery rhyme we were assigned as a duo: 'The Crooked Man'.
"There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;
He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house."
Joint project with Charlotte Wildings
"There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;
He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house."
Joint project with Charlotte Wildings
research
Comic Style Research
Zoe Thorogood, Comic illustrator: https://www.instagram.com/zoethorogood/?hl=en
Lex Hobson, Story Artist: https://www.lexhobson.com/
Development
Story Development
Initial drawn storyboard:
Development of the house to be used in the comic:
Initial house shapes
|
The Crooked House in Lavenham sketch
|
Reference image. The Crooked House, Lavenham
|
Digital mockups of crooked houses:
Stile mockups (Neither myself or Charlotte knew what a stile was...)
Typography
Font matching to art style:
|
|
|
Hand drawn font:
Hand drawn font based on my own handwriting. After tidying up font digitally, appears similar to comic sans - not the font style aiming for. Took too much time to develop for a short project.
|
Pictured: Top row is comic sans, bottom row is my own hand drawn font.
|
Digitalised storyboard, using infographics to further visualise the story telling:
Final outcome
Final produced piece for the comic book project: