GRAPHIC NOVEL PAGE
Most comics and graphic novels today are at least partly drawn with computers. Digital coloring using Photoshop and other raster programs is extremely commonplace. Another common practice is when graphic artists use real photographs, traced or run through various filters in Photoshop, as "drawn" illustrations. All of the pages below possess many objects that were "drawn" by tracing or altering photographs. This is particularly true in the drawings of mechanical objects such as the buildings and cars. Your "final exam" project is to create a page out of your own comic or graphic novel. It could be a single page story, a "comic" that illustrates an entire narrative within that one page. Or it can be a piece of a larger story that would be told within many pages of your (imaginary) "graphic novel". Your comic or graphic novel page shall be created to meet the following criteria: 1. Is a composition 1800 x 3000 px in size 2. Contains eight (8) panels or scenes 3. Illustrates a narrative with a chronological order (first something happens, then another thing happens and so on). 4. Each of the panels contains the following: - At least one living thing and one man-made thing. - Fully colored including the use of gradients - Contains words of some kind. Your drawings will be created by either creating a "blackline" drawing (black inked-in outlines only) by hand, digitizing it and coloring it in a raster program OR using photographs found online (or elsewhere) that are significantly altered (using digital tracing or filter effects). If you choose to use the latter option, you will have to provide copies of the original files along with your final project. Your work will not be graded if you do not do this. |
AuthorDaniel P. Loughran is an artist and art educator who lives in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Archives
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