Its the week into semester 2 and the tension is there after hand in and waiting on getting a grade back and waiting on feedback. However in this blog I am running over the week of semester 2. To start we had a lecture on our last modules for the 5 months left of our course. We ran over the tasks that we need to do. We got told we needed to start having a final look on what we are doing for the final show and our final project. We also got told that we needed to plan for our portfolios and portfolio books. I had a talk with my tutor about what I should be doing for my last modules. We came up with the idea to start looking into the storyboards and the script to the multi textual children’s book. I managed to keep a track of what I needed to do and I started this semester off in the library.
My tutor suggested me to look at books which focus on storyboarding. A book he suggested was Don Bluth’s art of storyboarding (Bluth, 2005). I was ecstatic to find out about this book as I am a fan of Don Bluth’s work he was Disney’s illustrator and the creator of one of my favourite Disney film called A Troll In Central Park (A Troll In Central Park, 1994). I managed to find this book and a few others and had a look through them and managed to figure out some content for my own script and storyboards. I will place some imagery of some experiments I have done for my storyboarding. 
This is one idea I have created by using water paints Of which I created a blog about on using water paints and Illustrations of which you can read here Tutorial: How to use watercolour within illustration. I used this method for my story boarding to help with free handing ideas and having a loose train of thought. Using water colours can be difficult but using it to loosely jotting ideas can be fun and creative way of thinking. As you see here I used this to help with my story layout and I found that using water paints easier that using pencil and it looks more inviting. I have incorporated with ink to add dimension and texture as I wanted to show my intentions for my multi textual children’s book.
I have stated in my sketchbook the reasoning of why I have chose to do these methods and how I have based it towards my multi textual children’s book. I have provided my sketchbook with experimental and development work towards my storyboards. I have used more experimental work this week and managed to record these experiments and continue to find a final storyboard method of which I was comfortable with.
My goal for this semester is to start planning and organising my script, I can place here for you to read Where’s Mr Fox? script. I have placed my script and my planning for my script in my sketchbook. I have created a script at the beginning of my semester 2 (I did this on the train home) I wanted to create the script first to help with my structure for the storyboards. I already created 3 scene for my multi textual children’s book with an idea of what I wanted to create but before I could create further content for the multi textual children’s book I have to find out if I need more pages or extra characters. I figured I would only know this if I created a script. I have placed pages and experimental work with water paint for extra characters and individual environments. I had an idea to create a storyboard by scanning and placing my watercolour illustrations in Photoshop and arranging them. I didn’t like how the illustrations turned out and I didn’t want to attempt to create a storyboard with this but I have documented my work in my sketchbook.
Over this period I have found a method of how I want to create my storyboards and have been recorded into my sketchbook. I have started my commercial work and my collaboration. I have made sure that I will be able to include these and record any sketches and planning for my work.
For my collaboration work I had done this with a level 6 media student and she wanted me to create child drawn-like turtles. In this blog I am going to show you some examples of how I had created a little turtle and from this example I managed to create 16 or 18 of them. I will continue to show you what I did and how I created a little turtle. To start I had a meeting with the student. We sat down and they told me that they had did some case studies and got children to draw a character for the mini stop-motion capture that they are making. I was shown the imagery that was drawn by the children and they created a turtle. The turtle was actually the classroom pet called Max. From this I was sent over by via email the drawings and was asked to “mock style” the turtles and tidy them up. I managed to understand what they were saying and I created this style of turtle. I will show here.
This here is an example of the children drawings of which (Topal, 2018) had provided me these. As you see the child has drawn a turtle and my job is to keep this style but make it look more neat and tidy. I had achieved this by using the imagery as a guide and traced neatly in Illustrator. I then coloured and corrected in Photoshop and created something like this.
As you see I kept the child like style and as they wished I managed to create a bundle of turtles. I have recorded this process in my sketchbook and In another blog Evaluation: Life update into the future for me You are able to read here about my progress into my teaching alongside growing up. Example of this is that this year and in that blog I stated about buying a house. Planning my future to become a teacher and working as an artist mentor at the Artrium. I hope you have enjoyed this blog and hope you found this useful.
until the next time
Rach 🙂
Bibliography
A Troll In Central Park. (1994). [film] Directed by D. Bluth. Hollywood: Walt Disney.
Bluth, D. (2005). Don Bluth’s the art of animation drawing. Milwaukie, Or.: DH.
Topal, D. (2018). Turtles. [coloured pencil] Newcastle: Newcastle.
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