Comic Book

 Page 1: This the first page of my comic book, i started by using the box template that i made last week, then i made a mask layer so i could draw outside the boxes and it wouldn't show up on the page.I then started drawing with the pen tool and the line tool all of the details, then i placed in the sketch of 'Sinja' then added in all of the gradients and the colours.

I chose these colours as i wanted the nice bright colours for the climax of the event, to make the reader become exited and be drawn into the story. I then finally put in all of the sentences and used a font called 'Haettenschweiler' this font was good as it was nice and clear and bold. After i placed a 10 degree angle on the font and put a 15mm stroke on the text to outline the text and make it more visible.

What i would do if i had to improve it, i would sketch the character in different positions so it would fit better.

Page 2: This is the second page of my comic book, i started by using the second shape template and started by using the pen tool and the rectangle tool and the star tool to make the shapes, i put the gradients in and used the yellow and orange for lights and cyan and royal blue to show the motion of 'Sinja' flying through the sky.

I then placed in all of the text and used the 'Haettenschweiler' font again and i put a 10 degree shear on the text and then i put a 15mm white stroke around the outside of the text, i also had to round the edges of the text as the text would leave spikes popping out and it looked unprofessional.

If i had more time i would of gone in to more detail and possibly would ad in a flare or looked at some free vectors so i could perfect the drawings... "ie. buildings"

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CPR - Poster

In todays lecture we were put in small groups and we were told to make something to encourage people to learn how to preform CPR, and this is what i designed on illustrator.

Comic book design + Drawing

I started by making a new file and putting the size to A4 and started by using the pen tool to create the box designs/sizes, i then put them in place and put them a light grey, i then put a white to black gradient as the background then i decided to put a 2mm stroke around the boarder of the shape.

Improvements: I would properly experiment a bit more with the shapes and i would also experiment with different colours to see what would suit the theme of the comic book.

After i printed off my design i started to draw in the boxes, i used the story board that i did to come up with a design and this is what i came up with.

Barnsley's Final Poster

This is the final poster that we designed after lots of tweaking and replacing things we finally settled on a good design, we had lots of improvements to do as shown on previous blog posts, these improvements were made and the outcome was this...

Illustrator - tutorials

As a starter activity i started by looking at some tutorial videos of illustrator, as i am confident with this software i knew the basics so i looked at using the pencil tool as i never use it that much.
They lookat at the short cuts of the pencil tool and how you also have a smooth pencil tool, i learnt that you can draw on top of your stroke of another line that was drew with the pencil tool and that will change the path instead of on top of it, you can also change the shape by selecting the white arrow and moving the anchors to change the shape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mApJiURbBAg&feature=youtu.be - Link to the video.

Key Lighting/Fill Lighting/Backlight

Key Light

Key light is one of the most important things that a Cameraman/Photographer could use in a lighting setup. The purpose of 'Key Light' is to directly aim at the person or at the object, to highlight certain parts of the face, or components of the object.

Key Light often only uses one light only that is directed diagonally in front of the person/subject, and the camera is placed in front of them. The position of the person/object can also effect the presentation of the photo/video.

Fill Light

In film or photographic lighting, a fill light may be used to reduce the contrast of a scene. It is usually used to fill in the darkness on one side of the person/object, They usually use this technique in things like films, staging and interviews. This photo is a great example of Fill light 

Backlight

Backlight is a form of illumination, where a light is placed behind the person/object. Any light can be used as a light, from natural to un-natural, the light is usually placed above the person/object, they can also be placed directly behind the subject so it gives it a bright glowing silhouette effect. They can also be referred to a hair lights.

  

Old Toy

This weeks session was the day we had to hand in our work from the past couple weeks. We were then set to look at old toys that we use to play with when we were younger. looking at the toys we use to play with compared to the ones that are made now shows how more simple and safe they are compared to the past toys, they are also now made out of cheaper materials and are lower quality

Here are some of our old toys

• Bay-blades
• Pokemon
• Gameboy
• Nintendo 64
• Star Wars Lego
• Bionicles

Final major project ideas

For my final major project i would want to make a short film/documentary interviewing or including actors giving them weird awkward questions to answer and record the reactions of the questions 

An example of this would be the Youtube channel called college humour 

collegehumour