Set, Series, Sequence.

I want to document more of the Set series sequence project as I feel I didn't go into a lot of detail with what I did.  To begin I made a list of ideas in my sketch book that related to the word I had been given, which was crystal, I thought long and hard about what things could and couldn't be related, and even did some little doodles that I thought could help inspire me later on. Having such a broad topic it was difficult to narrow down which things I should look into. So taking some of these ideas I created 24 drawings relating to crystals.
Here are some of the 24 drawings.

From there I decided to choose the image of the wizard to elaborate onto. I liked his design and wanted to see how I could take it further. So I did 12 images caring on from there, here are some of the twelve.

I feel I could have done better if I'm honest with these.

From there we where given the task of creating a story board. I had a lot of trouble with this. I did sevril versions but finally settled with one after many, MANY attempts. Here is the story board.

Here are the final boards, I feel I could have done better with this task, but I plan to work harder in my next brief.

Set Series Sequence.

Set Series Sequence.

I feel that it is necessary me to elaborate a little more on the set series sequence project.  I found this project to be rather difficult. Drawing the 24 images I didn't find to hard, but creating the 12 from that 24, became a bit of a challenge. I found that putting the wizard into different interesting scenarios was quite the challenge after a bit. A wizard can be over done, I know, but I felt I wanted to stay with more of a classical theme, as magic goes hand in hand with crystals a lot of the time. 

After this came the making of the storyboards, and my word did I find that hard to do. Usual I enjoy making a storyboard, but this one I did not. I began by making a basic fantasy shop design, and went with that. My biggest mistake with this brief was not thinking my ideas through. After I'd created and finished the board, I looked it over, and frankly it didn't have much plot, and no ending to it, this made me ask for a second opinion, and a third and then a forth, I think you get the picture. After asking my classmates and some of my tutors, I came to the rounding conclusion, that It need to be changed. This led me to make an entirely new board, this one had plot yes, but was short, and frankly lacked a little something. Now this got me thinking, why not incorporate both boards into one. So that's what I've done, and I'm actually relatively happy with it, I mean its not the best thing in the world but its much better than it was. It had a larger plot, granted its not the best, but it had more than before, and I found that people seamed to understand the concept of the idea more.

I think I've learnt a lot from this brief, mainly think things through before diving in blind.

Week 5 - Crystals and such

Week five

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During this week, we were given a new task. We were asked to randomly select a piece of paper, each piece of paper having an individual word on it, I was given the word crystal. Now I wasn't sure at first where to go with this, the brief asked us to do 24 drawings that represent this word then create 12 drawings from one of the images. I struggled a little to do the 24 drawings as there was a lot to do and frankly I ran out of ideas at some points but did power through. I also realised that crystal has a lot of meaning, it could be associated with magic, it can be associated with healing things, or Spiritual thing. From the 24 drawings I selected the wizard it may be predictable but I like the classics, from there I created 12 images each of the wizard and a crystal in different scenarios and poses. We worked on this more or less the entire week, and I did really enjoy it, the part that I struggled most with was when we had to create the storyboard. Whilst making the first storyboard, I realised that I didn't really know where I was going with it. This inevitably gave the story no real plot. Or that it had a plot but it didn't really know where it was going was is almost as if it was the beginning of a story not a whole story so taking this on board I decided to remake my storyboard and made another page where the wizards creates magic with the crystal. But then I realise that maybe I could incorporate both together via the first storyboard in the second storyboard and make a story from them that actually made sense. Now that I've created this storyboard I feel that it does make a lot more sense than the others and actually quite happy with it.