Illustration And Visual Narrative (Week 03)
ILLUSTRATION AND VISUAL NARRATIVE GCD 61204 (Week 03)
NAME: CHIN TZE WEI
I.D: 0357423
COURSE: Illustration and Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media
GROUP: Class 01 Sec 01
WEEK 3: LECTURE
Figure 3.1 Lecture Note for Week 03
Lecture Note Week 03:
In this week's lecture, we learned about "Chiaroscuro". This lecture is a great starting point for us to know the use of light and dark to create the illusion of three-dimensional volume on a flat surface.
Chiaroscuro: An Italian term,
which means "light-dark"
In paintings:
- Creates clear tonal contrast
Figure 3.2 Still Life with Fruit (Caravaggio)
- Increase the scene's dramatic tension - exaggerating the subjuct's importance using colour/light contrast.
- Tenebrism is a painting style from the Baroque period that uses strong contrasts between light and dark to create dramatic effects. It's characterized by its dark and gloomy atmosphere. Artists like Caravaggio and Rembrandt were known for using this technique in their artwork.
- Focus point or subject of a scene is brightly coloured or contrasted with a dark background.
- Low-Key lighting: Dimming the setting to emphasis natural/artificial lighting.
Figure 3.3 Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
- Use lights to create emotional and impactful scenes.
Figure 3.4 Lights use to create emotional for movies
Figure 3.5 Lights use to create impact scenes
Use in Visual Narrative :
- Is an excellent lighting choice to differentiate positive vs negative space.
- Positive space: Refers to subject matter or object if interest in a visual.
- Negative space: Refers to the filled space or background that surround subject matter or object of interest in visual.
- Use to increase dramatic tension.
Figure 3.6 Houseki No Kuni (Haruko Ichikawa)
- Use to create snesational effect.
Figure 3.7 Batman (Bob Kane and Bill Finger)
- Use to attract attention.
Figure 3.8 Into the Spiderverse (Sony Pictures)
- Use to make tasteful composition.
Figure 3.9 Moon Knight (Smallwood, Bellaire and Petit)
WEEK 3: WEEKLY EXERCISE (CHIAROSCURO)
I started off by tracing a reference image of a pear given by Mr Hafiz
using the Pen Tool.
Then I used the Pencil Tool to create the shadows. Later on, I used Knife
Tool and Recolour to slice and change the colour of the pear.
Followed Mr Hafiz's guidance, traced skull reference image and used them
as shadows on my pear.
Figure 3.10 A cut out pear and A skull printed pear (Week
03)
WEEK 2: EXERCISE (SHADOW AND COLOUR)
After finnishing the cut out pear and skull printed pear, Mr Hafiz let us to continue our Task 01: Exercise-Part 01: Vormator Challenge Character.
Figure 3.11 Character after coloured and shadowed
Final Vormator Challenge Exercise
Figure 3.12 Final Outcome Vormator Challenge Character
