Business
card research mood board for focused on
finding out what other people put on their cards. I feel that Andy Fossey's Business
card holds my interest though I feel i would have preferred the character to
look confused and be looking toward the writing.
So after my last blog post I decided to focus on doing
some exposition stuff, A few days ago I was trying to think on ideas for
Business cards which id feel hold some meaning behind them.
My things id associate
toward myself which could influence what I draw was, Animation, Manga, Story boards ,
Personality, Body language , Emotion, Resonance(Music inspiration). Some thoughts that went through my head.
- I am an Animator, This is my Puppet that obeys my will.
- Animation & Illusion of life to create a Living breathing character who has a will of their own.
- Would having a character coming out of a storyboard be interesting ?
- Is it weird to want to draw and have a girl character on my business card ? (This was the fun part making me not to keen on drawing).
- How about a hand holding a soul ?.... What would a soul look like ? Perhaps.... Foggy ? Misty ? Smoky ?
Above
is a stage in my sketch book when I
began experiment with the storyboard, Animator and puppet ideas, Along with
drawing a hand to hold a soul, For drawing the hand I also reference photos of
my own hand however I didn't like the poses or angle.
I
decided to try doing some charcoal drawings while watching Ryan Wood ward's Animation
"Thought of you".
One
of the specific things that I'm inspired by this animation is the drawings and demonstration
of fast motion as the hands stretch and extend. Below are my Charcoal drawings
in which I wanted to create the same affect.
The
Second attempt was my favourite, and was also by accident like allot of my
favourite drawings..... The parts I like
about the drawing is that its abstract enough for people to draw their own meaning
from what they see. After this I
continued doing more drawing until I ran out of hairspray. Attempts 3 and 4
were and attempt to reproduce the same affect however with more motive however
they turned out far from what I hoped.
Attempt 4 however, set in motion my drive to have a
character holding something like a soul.
In
order to gain a better understanding of using charcoal I also watch some videos
one was particularly helpful because she talked about the different result the charcoal
types produce Allowing me to predict how the charcoal would react.
The Links:
So as this progressed the my Idea began to finalize more. I
want a character holding another character in their hand. I want both character
to look like they are made from mist/smoke. Illuminated by light. I want the
character whose holding the other to fade into the rest of the drawing. I also want to make the drawings feel mangaesk/
Tattoo like not full body or limbs but line to hind toward the character
structure.
Above is the Stages I went through to create
this idea. As I began drawing the character that was being held I wanted to
create story within this image, and attempted to draw both character with some
intimacy toward each other. However as I continued with the drawing I began
making mistakes which began to take the image away from what I wanted. The main
problem being drawing smoke.
I
then took the images, drawing and began to experiment with them. To see if I
could achieve the affect by combining the drawings. I took them into a vector
based package and created traces of the drawings(Instant trace). This has a
similar affect as some of the filters in Photoshop however because it becomes a
vector illustration these can be zoomed in and scaled with no lose in quality.
Below are the results of this experiment.
Sadly
they did not achieve what I was looking for, However the first image here I
still hold attachment to, the effect created from the vector trace I find
appealing as it creates a good blend of colours. At this point I decided take a
break from this project,
Later that day I decided to take another attempt at drawing digitally,
This progressed into my finally concept for my Business cards. Although I extremely
frustrated as I could not shade or paint
the way I wanted to, Or frankly I had no idea what I was doing. I knew i wanted
to create smoke so I looked for tutorial.
This Tutorial being the
means of progressing forward.
Stages 1 to 3 was
focused on stacking the images over each other, as the stage 3,s lower
body held a better placement of the legs and I wanted to carry that into the
next attempt. Stage 4 was focused on creating the Lines/Highlights which formed
the structure. Here are two reference images or example images of the concept that
was in my head.
(Images are the logo from the manga Dogs: Bullets and
carnage by Miwa Shirow)
Stages
5 to 7 focused on creating the light source and smoke effect on the girl and
her companion i then began focusing on creating highlight to suggest hair.
However,
There appears to be a problem with the colouring from my photo shop and vector
package in this document. Below is a better example of the colour s however the
this image can't be scaled.
So hopefully
within the next week I will have samples of these cards from Moo Business
cards. As I did attempt to print out the fog girl with my printer and special
paper as reference however, as expect from a non professional printer the
colour blending was a problem so I am using these samples to test how the
images turns out when outsource. I also attempt to make sure my colour values
were as pure as I wanted them to be (For example White being R255 G255 B255)
Though Moo Uses CMYK. Which could result in colour being duller if I left my
drawings as RGB.
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