UPDATED Final Pages

As a last minute effort, I have made some slight changes to my final pages. 

I have gone over each page and added areas of darker colour to make the figures look less flat, and I believe this is a massive improvement. Simply adding tone to the characters has vastly improved the look of my narrative and I am very glad that I decided to test this out before I printed off the final versions.

Final Pages

Here are my final illustrations for my 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories' wordles sequnce. I decided to try something new for this project and use Adobe Illustrator, which is a program that I have only started using during this project. For a program that I am unfamiliar with, I feel like my illustrations have turned out good.
Vincent said during my crit that he liked my style of work based on the example I showed, so I have run with this for my final narrative and I am very happy with it. I feel that the story is easy to follow despite the initial struggle I had coming to terms with the wacky characters in the story.

 

Final Page Layouts

Here are my final drawn up designs for my storyboard. I have scanned them all in and will draw my final storyboards on Adobe Illustrator. For the layouts, I have kept the size of each page the same but have varied the sizes of the frames within the page.

Page Ideas

After my critique, I decided to have a think about the number and order of my pages. I want to show Haroun meeting Butt the Hoopoe, Haroun and Iff flying to the moon Kahani, and the realisation that Kahani is a water moon. I do not think I will be able to complete this in 5 pages however so I will have to go over the required amount.

Page 1 - Haroun looks at the moon Kahani and longs to travel there. Iff has a trick up his sleeve, and presents Haroun with his hand.

Page 2 - In Iff's hand are lots of tiny birds among other magical creatures, and Iff tells Haroun to choose one.

Page 3 - Haroun thinks, and chooses the Hoopoe.

Page 4 - Iff throws the miniature Hoopoe out the window, and it magically grows in size!

Page 5 - Haroun and Iff ride Butt the mechanical Hoopoe to the Moon Kahani.

Page 6 - They land on the water of the moon Kahani.

Page 7 - Haroun is surprised to see that the moon is made of water!

These will be the themes of the pages that I will be creating for my final piece.

Critique with Vincent and Jonny

Today I had my group critique with Vincent and Jonny, in which I had to present my storyboard ideas for the scenes that I will be illustrating for my final outcome. As I only have one storyboard which is realised on Adobe Illustrator, this is what I showed first, followed by some coloured representations of frames, whilst explaining the plot and showing my character designs. Vincent really liked the style and layout that I have worked with in my Illustrator fram sequence, he just made the suggestion that I use references for the hands like I did in my first frame.

I explained the plot that I will be working with and the tutors grasped it and understood where I am going with my development. Vincent especially liked my coloured frame drawings and thinks that with what I have done I am on my way to having a good final storyboard.

He only suggested that I now stop working on my style and start creating thumbnails to make sure my story flows.

This is the Illustrator storyboard that I showed to give an idea of the flow that my storyboard will have. 

Copic Marker Frame Experiments

I've been further exploring my page ideas by playing around with ideas for frames. These little sketchbook experiments were done using copic markers and are representative of my ideas for the scenes and how I can depict what happens in my chosen passage.

These coloured frames are very successful and are a step in the right direction for the development of my work.

Final Design for Haroun

Here are my final designs for Haroun. Both were created from sketchbook drawings using Adobe Illustrator.