IllustrationFebruary 24-28, 2014

Ms. Livoti

Monday Feb 24, 2014

Aim: How can you complete your Edward Gorey style illustration?

Do Now: explain how to create gradation using marker.

Homework: Create 5 different versions of your cartoon character, add color. Consider different view points, expressions, outfits, or scenes your character can be in. Due Friday 2/28.

HW DUE TODAY: Comic Brainstorm worksheet!

End of Class Period: Hand in your Edward Gorey illustration for review.

Tuesday 2/25, 2014

Aim: What is Sequential Art?

Do Now: In your sketchbook, describe a cartoon or comic you may have read or continue to read.

Homework: Create 5 different versions of your cartoon character, add color. Consider different view points, expressions, outfits, or scenes your character can be in. Due Friday 2/28.

Sequential Art: Visual Art that follows a sequence to explain a series of events in a logical, progressive order. Images are used to tell the story, with text helping to explain the image. Comics, comic strips, graphic novels.

Panels: Boxes in which the comic page is arranged in.

Panel Frames: The borders around the panels, that separate the panels helping to create the sequence or flow of the comic.

Speech/word balloon: shows the dialogue of a character

Thought Bubble: internal dialogue- what the character is thinking- more of a cloud/puff style bubble.

Narration text: usually in more of a box, at the top or bottom of the panel

Vertical Panels Superman, DC comics

No text

Uses panels to “zoom” to different expressions and aspects of the fight

WolverineIssue: 15Page: 12Media Type: Pencil and InkArt Type: Interior PageArtists: Goran Sudzuka all

Inking: applying ink through pen or marker to cover the pencil drawing of a comic. Uses varies line weight and styles.

Shading: applying values to the drawing to indicate light and shadow.

Coloring: applying color to the comic, carefully coloring within the inked lines.

Splash Page: a full page illustration within a comic book. See image from Walking Dead comic

Charlie Adlard penciller Stefano Gaudiano inker

http://www.splashpageart.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=28607&ArtistId=84&From=Title

Cover art: The cover to the comic, includes title and information about the edition.

Typography: Stylized text used throughout the comic book

Motion Lines: Describe a characters movement/action

Emanata: Icons that represent what’s going on within a character such as a light bulb over their head.

Sound effects: (onomatopoeia) Sounds represented without balloons, visual representation of a sound.

Storyline: the stories or plot of a comic book

Story board: planning out the sequence of a comic book page layout and the character development.Visualizing the story line. A way of sketching the ideas of the comic by creating separate panels*used more in animation/movies as a way to plan out scenes and edit.

Graphic Novels: fictional story that that is represented in a comic book format, but presented as a book. For example, Frank Miller’s “Sin City” or “Dark Knight Returns”- was a 4 part mini-series comic book collection that was published as a single volume book. Different from comic books that may come out in monthly editions, weekly comic strips etc.

Manga: Style of comics from Japan beginning in the 18th century. Widely respected in Japanese culture. Many manga become tv shows or short films.

Check out Crunchyroll.com (or App on APPLE tv)

The word Manga can be translated as, “humorous pictures.”

Japanese Manga is to be read from the right side to the left, opposite of traditional American books. Not only do you read the pages from right to left, but you also read the panels and text from right to left.

Manga characters almost always have large eyes, small mouths, and they also usually have abnormal hair color.

Manga characters usually show over exaggerated emotions.

(anime- animation)

inuyasha

Interesting Comic Facts:

Stan Lee and artist Don Heck created Iron Man at the height of the Cold War in 1963, when the American people were very much aware of war and its impact on their lives.

The Wolverine made his debut in issue 181, way back in 1974, as a Canadian special agent ordered by a government department to capture Hulk and “bring him in.” He was almost named “The Badger” instead of Wolverine!

Action Comics put out the first superhero comics as early as 1938, was sold for 2.16 million dollars in 2011

The Comics Code Authority was an organization established in 1954 to make comics more kid-friendly, but in addition to cutting down on violence and gore they also decided to enact an outright ban on werewolves in an attempt to discourage the horror genre.

Wednesday 2/26, 2014

Aim: How can you plan the panels of your comic book illustration?

Do Now: Debate- Are comics art? Take a stand and explain your point of view.

Homework: Create 5 different versions of your cartoon character, add color. Consider different view points, expressions, outfits, or scenes your character can be in. Due Friday 2/28.

Thursday 2/27, 2014

Aim: How can you sketch your character for different scenes in your comic illustration?

Do Now: analyze the comic strip! 1. What art elements are being used?2. What design principles are used?3. What is the comic expressing?

Homework: Create 5 different versions of your cartoon character, add color. Consider different view points, expressions, outfits, or scenes your character can be in. Due Friday 2/28.

Due tomorrow: submit one sketch of your comic book page illustration with at least 4 panels, and your character design, for review!

Friday Feb 28, 2014

STUDENT- TEACHER DAY