Illustration and Visual Narrative / Project 2 Illustration Poster

19/5/2023 - 1/6/2023 / Week 7 - Week 9
Janice Marie Eng Chia Hui  / 0361521
Illustration and Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Taylors University 
Project 2 Illustration Poster

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Table of Contents

1. Lectures
2. Instructions
3. Task 
4. Reflection 

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Lectures

Week 7 class was canceled and to be replaced while 

Week 8 is Independent learning week. 

Week 9 was submission week hence lectures for week 9 will be recorded in the next blog.

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Instructions

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M6G9GT3Tgedo-986Eo6a6qK5PwiD-J6F/view?usp=sharing

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Task 

For this task, we were to pick an SDG that we like, research it and then make a poster out of it based on the research. The poster was then to be submitted to Maybank for their myTigers competition. 

1. Research 

I had chosen SDG 15 (Life on Land). Ms Anis asked us to do some research on the goal we had chosen. I initially wanted to make a poster about Invasive Alien Species(IAV). Yes, that is their name, it has aliens in it. I did some research and found out about red-ear sliders, a kind of turtle that is brought into Malaysia to trade as exotic pets. However, these species are very harmful to the local turtles and are highly adaptive to the local environment. They will compete with the local species and reduce the population of the local turtles. Link for my research.

My initial visual reference is as below. Pinterest board.

Figure 1.1 Poster one 

Figure 1.2 Alien poster

However, after I started on the poster I realized that I did not like it and it wasn't going to work out in the time frame I was given to complete it.  So I changed my topic to tigers. Some of the visual references fro the poster are below. Because I change last minute,  did not get to document my research. Research compilation will be added later. 

Figure 1.3 Tiger Lily

Figure 1.4 Fish 

2. Sketches / Process

Figure 2.1 Initial Poster

Above is the initial poster with the red-eared slider. It wasn't going well so I abandoned ship.

The theme of the 2nd poster was to show a tiger cub who has lost their mom and sibling. Due to the hot weather *cough* global warming *cough* they went into the water. Now motherless and homeless(due to deforestation) they have no direction. To show that humanity still has some integrity, I showed an animal rescuer reaching out to the tiger cub trying to rescue it(creative liberties were taken, let's hope the tiger cub doesn't bite off their hands). At the side of the tiger cub is their dead mother and sibling leading them to safety.

The colour pallete was taken from colour hunt. 

Figure 2.2 2nd Poster Process and References

Figure 2.3 CLose-ups 

Figure 2.4 Colour Pallete 

Figure 2.5 Character Outline 

Figure 2.6 Submission to MyTigers

For the tigers, I used shapes to trace out the silhouette of the tiger based on the reference I collected. After I got the general shape I unified the shapes and then went in with the pencil tool to draw on the small details like the hair. The stripes are done with the brush tool. The water surface is done with the shapes tool and I went in with the pencil tool and quick selection tool to make them the shape they are. After that, I used the pencil tool to draw on the shadows of the water. I applied gaussian blur onto the hand and the ghost tigers (stronger blur on the hand) to keep the focus on the tiger cub. 

3. Final Design 

 

Figure 3.1 Guiding Ghost(1/6/23)

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Reflection 

My experience throughout this project is that I should not change my idea last minute. I would not have enough time to carry out research on the topic. I have also learned that I should not focus too much time on the research part of the project, instead, I should have gotten started with the design early on. Oh well. 

My observation during this task is that I have no ideas. I don't know I just find it hard to come up with stuff. Anyway, I realized that having a clear, rough sketch of what you want to do with the drawing is important when using Ai. Ai is hard to use so having a very strong idea of how you want the end product to look like is important. At least for me. 

My finding is that I just released I should have made the hand bigger 0-o. I found it hard to incorporate 3D elements into an illustration so I left the 3D elements out. But I also released that AI has a lot of tools that can help you make vector images, like the pencil tool, I def abused that tool. 

 

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