Project 3 / Digital Triptych
1/6/2023 - 30/6/2023 / Week 9 - Week 13
Janice Marie Eng Chia Hui / 0361521
Illustration and Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Taylors University
Project 3 Digital Triptych
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Figure 2.5
Cat from
Pinterest
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I decided to make the protagonist a silhouette to show how much of a terrible
person he is. I first used the pen tool to outline the silhouette from my
sketch and then went online and found a liquid texture image. After that, I
imaged traced the image and changed the colour to fit the drawing. I then
clipped the image to the silhouette.
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Figure 2.16 The Black Cat Triptych (joined) (29/6/23)
Janice Marie Eng Chia Hui / 0361521
Illustration and Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Taylors University
Project 3 Digital Triptych
Table of Contents
Lectures
Week 9
We learned about light and shades this week. Mr Hafiz taught us how to
do Chiaroscuro.
Figure 1.1 Chiaroscuro Exercise
Week 10
Week 10 we learned how to use the pattern tool in Ai as well as the ornaments in Ai. Unfortunately, I forgot to ss the pattern exercise and have deleted the file..png)
Figure 1.2 Week 10 exercise
Week 11
Consultation week
Week 12
Week 12 we had a consultation with Mr Hafiz on our triptych
progress.
Instructions
Project 3 Triptych
1. 3 Act-structure
We were briefed by Ms Anis on the 3 act-structure which we needed to use
for our digital triptych.
Figure 2.1 3 Act-structure as shown in Ms Anis slides
After the brief, we were asked to choose a short story from this
link. The short story I choose was 'The Black Cat' which tells a story
about a man who is going mad and kills his wife and blames it on his
cat.
Figure 2.2 The Black Cat 3 Act Structure
- Set-up : Once upon a time, there was a boy who was docile but loved animals. He grew up and managed to meet a girl who also likes animals and they got married. They had dogs and a cat named Pluto as pets. However as the man grew he became abusive and started to slowly lose his mind, becoming more perverse by the day. Every day, he lived with the feeling at the back of his head that told him what he was doing is wrong. But he still abused his wife and dogs. Pluto however the narrator loved and never did any evil deeds towards Pluto.
- Conflict : One day the men got home drunk and Pluto avoided him. The men got angry and decided to cut out Pluto's eyes with his pocket knife. Because of that Pluto avoided him more, which made the men more and more irritated with Pluto. Because of that the man decided to kill Pluto and hung Pluto's body up on a tree. After he killed Pluto, his house burned down, but miraculously one wall remain intact with the image of a giant cat with a noose drawn onto said wall.
- Resolution : After that, the man found another cat that looked like Pluto but had white fur on its chest. The new cat loved the man but the man found it disgusting and hated it. Until finally, he lost his mind and took an ax to try and kill the cat again. His wife stopped him but he killed her and she said bye-bye. He put the body in the walls and mistakenly trapped the cat in there too the police found the body with the cat meowing loudly in the walls.
2. Research / Visual Reference
Figure 2.3 Theo D’Orato work
Figure 2.4 Webcomic 'No Home'
3. Triptych
I choose the story 'The Black Cat' and thought oooooh cat I like cats
let's do cat. Turns out the guy murders the cat and blames it on the cat
itself. FUNNNNN.
The protag is an unnamed man who slowly goes mad. The antagonist in the
protag eyes is the black cat but that's entirely up to the reader me
think. The conflict in this story is that the protag is slowly going
mad.
I started off with some sketches . I had a general idea of what I
wanted the triptych to look like and was going to base the colors off
Theo D'Orata's work.
Figure 2.7 Sketches, Line art, Colour and Shadows (26/6/23)
Figure 2.8 Clipping mask and texture added (26/6/23)
Figure 2.9 Initial colour palette taken form Colour Hunt
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Figure 2.10 Recolouring Artwork
The cat in the second image was 1st made by tracing the sketch with the
brush tool. After that, I filled it with the pen tool. To obtain the effect
in the drawing, I used the radial blur effect. There is so a grain texture
added in the background. Other than that, I also overlayed or was it
multiply (I forgot) a liquid texture on top of the image to give it an eerie
feel.
The last image is pretty straightforward. I traced everything from my
sketch with a pen and brush tool. The only thing that is technical is the
brick wall, which I inserted the same way as the silhouette in the 1st
image. The cat also has the blur filter on.
Figure 2.11 Different Situations
The 3 artworks are set in front of a wall because in the rising action
and ending a wall is involved so I thought it would be nice to add the
wall in. I tried to transition the artwork from mainly cold colors to
warmer colours to signify danger. But the silhouette of the man is red at
the beginning to show that he is going mad and is a danger to the people
around him. I asked my friends which saturation some said the dark one
cause it fit the vibes but most of them choose the brighter one so I went
with that.
I made the light cast in the drawing line up with each other so it looked
related.
Figure 2.12 Nightmare fuel jkjk just clipping masks
Final work
Figure 2.13 The Loves of My Entire Life (29/6/23)
Figure 2.14 Denial Unravelling (29/6/23)
Figure 2.15 A Brutal Bliss Beyond this Empty Defeat(Split)
(29/6/23)
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Reflection
My experience with this triptych was a bit stressful. I was working on
this alongside typo and dpi as well as my mpu sub. But I had fun reading
about Edger Allen Poe's work and making an artwork on it. I also had fun
incorporating a visual narrative into my artwork (oooo the name of the
sub ooo). On the other hand, using Ai for this project made my laptop
lag so much I think it briefly saw god. I'm pretty sure I could use my
laptop as a heater for my wet clothes with how hot it got. Look at me
complaining about Ai again.
My observations for this task were that coming up with a good flow for
the triptych is hard. I had like a few drafts that did not make it in
here cause they did not make sense and looked weird. I also observed
that using the right colours in your artwork can really change the vibe
of the drawing. It is also nice to play around
with how high I ca bump up the saturation without the drawing looking
too off.
This project was honestly quite fine but also very stressful. It helped
me utilize all the skills that I have learned about Ai so far to create
an artwork that could tell a story. So yeah.
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