Before my meeting with Lynn to discuss my honours project, Deborah who worked on the Storybook Meh that was recently published in Edinburgh came to visit the university and I was given the opportunity to show my portfolio to her. He liked a few examples of my work. He suggested that I placed some of my previous works into a separate folder and allow my best current work to be the first images that employers would see. I showed Lynn my work. I told her of Inktober. She liked the idea that I was doing this exercise during October. I showed her my works, mood boards, thumbnails including some examples of Inktober. I feel like my talk with her was more of a report rather than a feedback session which I was expecting. I feel that it ended up unintentionally caused confusion with where I was going with the project. She agreed that I should work on one interpretation project for honours.
She suggested that I should:
- reflect my media tests.
- provide some feedback.
- develop my skills in visual language and communication.
- analyse and learn but base my next activity on what I have learned or what I find difficult.
- Take a step back
- Provide as many visual cues as I can, metaphors/symbols/icons
- Put together some visual style mood boards
I spoke to Lynn about Plants vs Zombies artist Rich Werner and described his silent comic he made I addressed the text was in the panels and not in dialogue. I showed similar parallels with animation and comics as they share similarities. Thomas Coles's sequential paintings to stain glass. She asked me how important are interpretations to me? I replied that it was an opportunity for an artist to express themselves when giving the opportunity to express their vision of a story. I ended up contradicting myself but I justified that it was a rational thought but can still serve as a test.
Lynn suggested that I should talk about how visual logic is used to enhance communication in the narrative of a a comic form.
Lynn suggested that I should talk about how visual logic is used to enhance communication in the narrative of a a comic form.
She told me that I should refer to the term of minimal or non verbal instead of minimalist as it was referring to an art movement. I read a section of Scott McCloud's novel , Understanding Comics: An Invisible Art and He address how line work can suggest mood and in turn, style can reflect the mood and atmosphere for a comic's story. However she was pleased with my progress and content.
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