Narrative Imagemaking: Final Pieces

It's been a while since I last posted, in that time I've been working towards my final outcomes in textiles, mixed media and narrative imagemaking. I also visited London during half term which proved surprisingly helpful as I visited lots of galleries and came back feeling inspired and ready to work.

For our narrative imagemaking final piece, we had to create 6 pieces using Adobe Illustrator. I have some experience with digital art and I enjoy using drawing tablets so I found this brief really fun to work on!

I chose to center my pieces around an event I went to in the summer- a Japanese culture convention held in London, called Hyper Japan.

 The first piece is taken from this photograph of myself and a Japanese rock band called Lost Ash who I met at the convention.

 First of all, I sketched the picture by hand in my own style of drawing so that I could then scan the image into Illustrator.

Once the image was on illustrator, I created a new layer and worked on top of the image using the pen tool to create an outline.














I then created another layer beneath the outline layer and hid the initial sketch so I could add colour.







After completing the colouring  I added a background and final touches such as highlights and tidying up the linework. Here is the finished piece!

The second piece followed the same process except I realised that after the amount of time the first piece took me, if I tried to add in all the details I had in the sketch then there was no way I'd get all my pieces finished in time.













In the end, I decided to leave out the objects on the table and the extra figure and hope that the image still made sense. I might add them in again if I have time before the final assessment.

This piece was made in the same way as the others, except I decided to add text on top. It says: "おにぎり！おいしい" which means "onigiri! Delicious"














 I decided to give this piece a more graphical look because I thought it would be interesting to experiment with different styles. I also used text with black text behind it to bring it out more and look like a shadow.

I did this piece a little differently as I worked straight over a picture instead of a drawing. I made this piece much more experimental than the other pieces as I used different brushes and a more realistic style but I'm really happy with the outcome.












I also decided after completing the piece that I much preferred it uncropped as I like the splashy paint-like effect it has.

I also worked from a photo with this picture too, except I added some of my own details such as the faces.