OCA -Illustration 2

Illustration 2 Part four  - Contemporary  |Illustration Research point Find online social networks that connect  with your work or present content that you’re interested in. Find a range that covers commercial opportunities, professional networking, archived work, learning opportunities, or discussions around illustration. You might want to join in on some of these forums. What did you find and how does this inform your understanding of illustration? Share what you have found on OCA’s forums.  For Paper Pawtraits    As I run my own pet portrait business, I have had to learn to evolve my designs and also hit out at the right market to find the right people who would be most interested in buying a pet portrait. There are a few Facebook groups which I find useful such as pet groups, there are pet groups for every pet, dogs, cats,  guinea pigs even hedgehogs!  There is also a group for pet portraits, but I don't really post there as many pet a...

Tu tor Feedback Assignment 3 My feedback from this assignment is again very positive. James has talked about various points which I will go over here. First I'll start with room for improvement points to make for myself. My tutor mentions that through this assignment that my style has been quite similar throughout. When I did drawing one and painting one it was a lot about finding your personal voice and finding your style. I think I have found my style, which by the way I am always evolving but perhaps as this has been pointed out before that on this course they also want to see you experimenting and using new ways and ideas all the time to keep adapting your work and to make sure I guess that this is the style that is right for you. I will try to in the next assignment to create things using different styles just in case this is what examiners want to see - your versatility. Birds of a feather flock together - My tutor was impressed by the amount of work I put in to ...

Assignment three A graphic short story  Choose a short story and turn it into a mini graphic novel. The length of the graphic novel will largely depend on the story you choose, so pick something manageable. Aim to work over two or three pages only. Be creative with how you approach this. Think about how you edit the story, the kinds of shots you take, the relationship between the dialogue and the characters. How do you depict the sounds and describe the action both visually and in terms of text? Along with the narrative itself, design a cover for your graphic novel that includes the name of the short story, the author’s details and your own. Reflect on the experience of converting the text to a visual form. What did you learn from this experience? How have your illustrations developed to accommodate the demands of the narrative? Your critical review If you haven’t done so already, make sure that you send your proposal for the critical review to your tutor with this assignment...

Research point Athanasius Kircher began experimenting with magic lantern slides and projections in Rome during the 1640s. As the above quote suggests, magic lantern shows combined the magic of theatre and legend with the illusionary quality of the projections themselves. How has animation maintained this connection with the idea of the ‘illusion’? Find examples, join in on discussions in the OCA forums and write up a summary of your thoughts in your learning log All animation is about illusion if fact it is just that an illusion. Our brains operate by retaining the previous image, accepting the newer one and putting them together to assemble movement of images in the brain. This is known as the ‘Persistence of Vision.’ you can find more here on the link below: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/explore-animation/0/steps/12222 From this page there was a lot of interesting facts such as: ‘Persistence of vision works because the human eye and brain can only process 10 to 12 sepa...