Project 1 - The Comic

                                               'Team work makes the dream work'~ 

                                                      First Uni project has been completed!
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Tasked with making a comic for a classic nursery rhyme in a group, I was given the task of creating and illustrating a comic based on the rhyme 'Jack Spratt'. In a group, we first came up with the layout and pacing of the comic, whilst individually working on sketches and rough ideas for the settings and characters taking centre stage of the comic. And with the initial idea being centred around a medieval style, it gave each member of the group a staring point to create settings and characters that could be brought back to the group for feedback and to see if they could be used in the lead up to the final week of planning and producing the comic.

It was from here we learnt that in order to reach the deadline, dividing the responsibilities up between the three of us to ensure all pages were divided up in a way that ensured the whole comic still looked coherent and like one big piece as opposed to three sections of a piece. For this reason, I was tasked with taking on the two inside illustrations, back page illustration and softer colouring of the first page.  With the short amount of time to complete a heavy number of pages, quickly I learnt that I needed to get ideas down quickly and start from there. Having made quick thumbnail sketches on paper, I began to refine ideas digitally, and working to get a final piece. 

Having completed this project in the time limit, and as a group led me to learn a few things along the way; whether it be how to lead a group through organisation, or creating and narrowing ideas in a group setting. When it came to my own work however, learning how to push myself in the amount of work I created and the quality of it was key; ensuring it looked good, whilst letting go of believing everything had to be perfect. This allowed for me to be more spontaneous and experimental with my shading, straying from the usual way I shade pieces. This in turn ensured that able to do above the minimum necessary, whilst still having time to complete the work, and pull everything together with the help of other team members.