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Some webcomics that I love! I really enjoy them because of their drawing style - the first two because of the pencil on paper type of drawing and the second because of the amazing use of colour and drawing skill. The dinosaur comic because it makes me laugh. A softer world comic is probably not something that I would chose to use for my final web page (photographs) but it's one that I have been reading for as long as I can remember and was the first thing I thought of when in the last lecture about the different web comics. 

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I used white ribbon to bind my zine together. I like to think of the white represented purity, as this female character has never travelled out to the world alone. The last image is of my favourite page!

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The final 8 pages of my zine! I'm really please with how it came out, I had a lot of trouble trying to decide on the layout of my zine. This was because I wanted to keep it a fairly simple layout, and not full on as I found when I looked at comic book examples. I enjoy how the colouring on the last page is brighter/lighter than the others and that the rain has stopped. signaling the start of something good.

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These are my final pages (minus the title page and back page) with some of the images edited out as I felt like they didn't really work with the scenes.

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The last two pages of my comic that now have to be coloured and arranged nicely on the page! 

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Some progress that I've made today! 

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Planning my comic and ideas + deciding on characters (I've chosen a girl and her cat) and the rough outline of the first page.

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Another fave of mine is 'The Walking Dead' comics. I've looked at this to get ideas on how I would like to layout my comic/zine. It also had me think about using just b&w for the colour of the story but I'm thinking of using colour.

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I've gotten a lot of inspiration from my fave comic book 'Ghost World' 

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Planning the story of my Zine

For the story of my comic, it is going to follow a girl and her best friend, which is her cat. My comic is going to be very simple, but hopefully very moving to the reader. It is going to be about the female character having a (one-sided) conversation with her cat while sitting outside on a rainy day. The conversation will be her realizing that the town she lives in, the people that live here wont matter in the future. This will play on themes of realization and growing up and learning from past experiences. The emotions I want to use are loneliness - having a conversation with her best friend, her cat is lonely because she doesn’t really get responses except a ‘meow’, fear & bravery – the fear of the future but the bravery of being able to grow up and at the end of the comic – happiness.

 How I want the story to go, will probably make certain changes when I draw them as they might not really work with the layout etc:

Showing where the story will take place. The rainy weather and the female character sitting outside (under shelter) with her cat curled up next to her.

The starting conversation of her realizing just how big the world is outside of the tiny town. The cat responding with a “meow” and a “purr”

The first few sections will show the heavy rain, this will be a continuous thing throughout the story.

A range of emotions on the females face from sadness to loneliness.

Another range of emotions on the females face from fear to bravery.

Accepting that she can’t stay in the town if she wants to make a name for her self and see the world.

Stubbing out her cigarette and going inside, her cat following her. One shot of her looking out the window, one of her in her room with a suitcase near by.

The ending I want her to be seen in the distance walking down the street with her cat in a carrier, a bus stop sign is seen.

When I finish each page of drawing, I'm going to scan it in and put it through photoshop to tidy up lines and mistakes and then put it through illustrator. I thought about water colour painting the zine but I've decided that I want to colour the drawings in photoshop.

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Framed Ink, Pg. 112 - 117

Choreographing the page:

- They should repeat an element throughout, and that it is smooth and cinematic. - This should be something that is repeated throughout the entire pages and sequences. - Predetermined and harmonios path is to ensure that the reader doesn't lose the flow or interest of the theme. - Characters can come outside of the drawn box for the page.

Fragmenting the Scene:

- Light source can play a huge part, if you want it too seem 'creepy' and have a feeling that something is going to go wrong then have mostly darkness surrounding the scene - For layout, have the character wander around the same background/"stage" as this gives a effective and theatrical approach. - The planning of the order of objects is crutial for the final stage of the comic panel

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8 images that show different emotions 

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Notes from processing pg 197-204 & 279-290

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Project 3 Poem

IX. Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so? And nobody knows, so still it flows, That any brook is there; And yet your little draught of life Is daily drunken there. Then look out for the little brook in March, When the rivers overflow, And the snows come hurrying from the hills, And the bridges often go. And later, in August it may be, When the meadows parching lie, Beware, lest this little brook of life Some burning noon go dry!

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=3276287&pageno=18

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Beyond Play: the Art of Creative Coding - Joshua Davis

He writes programs to generate art, especially vector based assets. A canvas to make art is described as what coding is. To generate an infinite amount of generated compositions, run the program multiple times. We are able to replicate the idea of ‘stain glass windows’ using silkscreen film, a printer and SVG. It’s like a kaleidoscope, the repeating patterns that can’t be made manually on something like illustrator; it has to be done at random with processing. “Creating complexity from simplicity”. Transferring the random processing works to paper = hand drawing but also writing programs and then being able to carve the patterns into wood is another way. Using tools created, use them in ways that are unexpected! Sometimes the code fails, but it can sometimes be a good thing. “The type of work you make, is the type of work you’ll get hired to do” – so make things that you enjoy and like to do. Embrace collaboration. High-tech tools aren’t always required, use markers and pens. Joshua’s works can be using digital tools, yet in the end the final work turns out to be analog. To remember: failure is part of the process. It is important to play as it informs what is possible with the work. Colour inspiration comes from photos he has found on the Internet as inspiration. In Photoshop;

Save for web – 32 GIF – This shows the colour pallet. “ColourPickingTool”

  This was such an inspiring lecture!

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3 files that have gone through the hand drawing > photoshop > illustrator > SVG method

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Notes taken from readings