Day 1
On the first day of narrative we were given the assignment to represent time on an A1 sheet of paper. Initially the entire group was required to do a perspective still life drawing of a number of objects in front of us. Initially I was not looking forward to doing a perspective drawing again, since the previous time I had failed miserably and found it tedious. But I wasn't so bad the second time around. It may have been because I knew more of what I did this time; and I figured out some techniques to do it quicker; or I didn't mind not getting it perfectly right because we had such a short time limit that it would have been impossible to do so.
To represent time, the objects in front of us would move positions and we would record the new position of the object. People did this in various different ways such as using different types of coloured pens to represent each time frame, or to draw one object multiple times as it shifts. I decided to start of my drawing with a lightly coloured pencil (2h) and then increase the strength of the pencil of each time frame (got up to 7B). By doing it this way, you could get the sense of memory in the drawing, because as you look back at your further memories they seem less clear, whereas if you looked at your more recent memories they seem stronger.
When I just began drawing I tried to be quick but at the same time more or less realistic, as this exercise continued I realised how difficult and nearly impossible that was; my drawing became what looked like a hot mess. Tilly came over and helped me however, she suggested that I use strong, solid lines in my drawing that I used in other areas, thereby stylising my drawing. I ended up enjoying the exercises more by doing this and when it was over I was happy with the drawing that I made.
Day 2
Today we started the exercise off by drawing a story. We had to make quick visual notes while Tilly read to us so I just used stick men to illustrate my thoughts. Afterwards we had to draw the story in our books using the method for drawing boxes and rectangles. I drew the entire story in one, descending landscape, scene by scene so that you can see the timeline. Many other students however did fantastical thumbnails of Venus, cupid, Adonis and the mythical monster that ended the tragic love story. In retrospect I think I would have enjoyed doing that more than my one drawing as I could go into more detail and really elaborate certain aspects. Or design the characters a bit more or show deep emotion or create a beautiful imaginary world around my characters.
After this half an hour exercise we moved into the presentation and got inspired by the different ways other artists have used narrative; through illustration and advertising and artwork.
Vocabulary:
Semiotics- the study of signs and symbols
Iconic- a literal visual
Symbol- a symbolic visual
Indexical- a suggestion of something
Monoscenic narrative- shows a single event
Continuous narrative- figures are shown multiple times but in different stages of the story
Panoptic narrative- depicts multiple scenes and/or actions without repeating characters
Simultaneous narrative- focuses on the placement and arrangement of objects throughout the artwork. It is very focused to geometric and abstract designs
Sequential Narrative- it is like a continuos narrative but in the form of a graphic novel
Our next assignment is to read an extract from a book given to us and turn it into a narrative. We have to plan it out on an A1 worksheet. I didn't feel very inspired by the first extract that I got and was allowed to chose another. I really enjoyed the victorian detective feel from an extract from The Haunted House by Charles Dickens. I would like to do it in the style of the old English comic strips or illustrations found in newspapers or children books, much like that of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I would also like to exagerate certain features of the house and characters to give it a gloomy and steampunk type world feel.
During my search for inspiration I found some old house and home magazines that I cut out from. I started pasting everything on my worksheet and wondered back to my childhood of when I did the same thing but in moleskin books. I found pictures and articles and I drew fantastical characters and worlds in them and made them look like a historical documentation of the worlds that I created. It was loads of fun. I really enjoyed this exercise,
My favourite illustrators and their work:
On the first day of narrative we were given the assignment to represent time on an A1 sheet of paper. Initially the entire group was required to do a perspective still life drawing of a number of objects in front of us. Initially I was not looking forward to doing a perspective drawing again, since the previous time I had failed miserably and found it tedious. But I wasn't so bad the second time around. It may have been because I knew more of what I did this time; and I figured out some techniques to do it quicker; or I didn't mind not getting it perfectly right because we had such a short time limit that it would have been impossible to do so.
To represent time, the objects in front of us would move positions and we would record the new position of the object. People did this in various different ways such as using different types of coloured pens to represent each time frame, or to draw one object multiple times as it shifts. I decided to start of my drawing with a lightly coloured pencil (2h) and then increase the strength of the pencil of each time frame (got up to 7B). By doing it this way, you could get the sense of memory in the drawing, because as you look back at your further memories they seem less clear, whereas if you looked at your more recent memories they seem stronger.
When I just began drawing I tried to be quick but at the same time more or less realistic, as this exercise continued I realised how difficult and nearly impossible that was; my drawing became what looked like a hot mess. Tilly came over and helped me however, she suggested that I use strong, solid lines in my drawing that I used in other areas, thereby stylising my drawing. I ended up enjoying the exercises more by doing this and when it was over I was happy with the drawing that I made.
Day 2
Today we started the exercise off by drawing a story. We had to make quick visual notes while Tilly read to us so I just used stick men to illustrate my thoughts. Afterwards we had to draw the story in our books using the method for drawing boxes and rectangles. I drew the entire story in one, descending landscape, scene by scene so that you can see the timeline. Many other students however did fantastical thumbnails of Venus, cupid, Adonis and the mythical monster that ended the tragic love story. In retrospect I think I would have enjoyed doing that more than my one drawing as I could go into more detail and really elaborate certain aspects. Or design the characters a bit more or show deep emotion or create a beautiful imaginary world around my characters.
After this half an hour exercise we moved into the presentation and got inspired by the different ways other artists have used narrative; through illustration and advertising and artwork.
Vocabulary:
Semiotics- the study of signs and symbols
Iconic- a literal visual
Symbol- a symbolic visual
Indexical- a suggestion of something
Monoscenic narrative- shows a single event
Continuous narrative- figures are shown multiple times but in different stages of the story
Panoptic narrative- depicts multiple scenes and/or actions without repeating characters
Simultaneous narrative- focuses on the placement and arrangement of objects throughout the artwork. It is very focused to geometric and abstract designs
Sequential Narrative- it is like a continuos narrative but in the form of a graphic novel
Our next assignment is to read an extract from a book given to us and turn it into a narrative. We have to plan it out on an A1 worksheet. I didn't feel very inspired by the first extract that I got and was allowed to chose another. I really enjoyed the victorian detective feel from an extract from The Haunted House by Charles Dickens. I would like to do it in the style of the old English comic strips or illustrations found in newspapers or children books, much like that of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I would also like to exagerate certain features of the house and characters to give it a gloomy and steampunk type world feel.
During my search for inspiration I found some old house and home magazines that I cut out from. I started pasting everything on my worksheet and wondered back to my childhood of when I did the same thing but in moleskin books. I found pictures and articles and I drew fantastical characters and worlds in them and made them look like a historical documentation of the worlds that I created. It was loads of fun. I really enjoyed this exercise,
My favourite illustrators and their work:
Rawle Graham
Woman's World and Diary of an Ameteur Photographer
Woman's World and Diary of an Ameteur Photographer
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Tim Burton
Tony di Terlizzi
My Final Worksheet