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BRIEF: Creation Story/ Comic
1) PROJECT NAME: Creation Story/Comic
How is the project in keeping with the course outcomes? Write this out.
How will this project be in keeping with the PSLOs? Write this out.
2) PROJECT SUMMARY
Read 3 other cultures’ creation stories. You are to choose one and research the culture’s creation story and their art across time. You are to create a five panel comic page that depicts a section of the story using newly acquired knowledge of their images and color palettes from your research.
Preliminary work: see below
Final Image: 1 hand drawn, 1 inked version, 1 colored version, 1 typed story with MLA documentation listed on paper.
3) Objective
· What is the problem to solve?
Read 3 other cultures’ creation stories. Choose one culture and research their art from their beginnings to current time. Research their art style, color palettes, and materials. Research their material goods (clothing, housing, and etc.) and the flora and fauna of their environment.
· Details of Tone, Message and Style
Write this out. This should be in keeping with the culture’s own style of art and design.
The final image is of your choice. Define what you hope to achieve before you start it:
What are your intentions, desires, and goals through the tone, message and style?
· You are to create a page with a minimum of five panels that depicts a section of the story. You are to filter and apply the culture’s art and design style to the illustration of their story.
· What will be your measures of success?
· Are there multiple levels of success?
4) Target Audience
Alfred State College, Ergo, classmates, sophomores, juniors and seniors, and faculty (we notice)
5) List Deliverables
· Brief
· Documented research MLA. Show where you obtained the images and information from which you worked.
§ Document:
§ Preliminary sketches that allowed you to draw with understanding
§ Preliminary images for the cumulative image
§ Design Process recorded (with all rough drafts, feedback and alterations)
§ Screen shots of file management pertinent to this project.
§ Final image(s) and a detail of final image,
§ Write up
§ All on WordPress before critique
6) Competition Identified
Yourself – how to exceed your own expectations. Write this out.
DO in class
7) Time Line
· Stages of the project listed with due dates.
· Design Process worked into timeline.
· Final presentation dates recorded: WordPress and in-class.
8) Budget
· Cost: time, money.
· What supplies are needed?
· What grade is needed?
9) Key Stake Holders
· These will be the people you have identified as resources for guidance and others to present work for their feedback before the final presentation.
· Get their contact information and set days and times to meet. (Time line)
Creation Comic
For my creation comic, I have decided to go with the story from Norse mythology as it is one of the earliest myths I invested into as a child. The story where the sons of Bor killed the first giant Ymir and created the world from all the components of his body. After reading this, I have decided to create a comic that depicts the giant’s dead body parts/components assembling to make the world.
Sketches
1. Instead of doing completely separate panels, I decided to split my “panels” into the different sections of the giant and have them flow together of each part of the earth’s formation. Along with using dashes instead of straight lines to come up with the inking of certain components as I felt it gave a grittier feel to the piece.
2. This project has allowed me to work on Photoshop to get better at the program and to better my skills as a digital artist. It may not look like an ideal comic, but it is my interpretation to what I see this story playing out as.
3. Growing as an artist, I am starting to sketch out my pieces of work first and then building up from there. Then adding layers of color to give depth and texture is something I am starting to do as well. Though not too much yet, don’t want to over do any part. Still, growing as an artist and going through some pretty hard challenges in my life right now. It is going to be a long journey.