Final Planar Hand Model and Recent Visual Storytelling 1 Projects

Hello everyone!

However are things?  I've been busy working on projects, most of which I'll include in this entry.

So let's get to it!

First of all, here are pictures of my finished clay hand model.  It's in planar simplified form, which was what we worked on most in class, so it's not supposed to look exactly like a real organic hand.  It gets down the basis of all the forms of the hand, from which we can extrapolate the rest of our knowledge about its surface form and structure. 

 

Here's grids, thumbnails, and tight roughs for six pages from a script of Y: The Last Man, done for Visual Storytelling I. 

 

Our next assignment was to draw from a script written by students in a Comic Book Scripting class in the Sequential Art department.  I had a lot of fun working on this one.  It involved a homeless man who hallucinates about space bears coming to Earth and making him their commander.  Grids, thumbs, and roughs are below. 

This project was given to us as a career-related challenge.  Our professor gave us five days over a weekend to thumbnail, grid, rough, pencil, and letter five pages from a given script.   It was meant to represent a last minute project given to us by a comic book company that, if done well, could increase our reputations in the industry.  It was definitely challenging, and was certainly a good lesson.  I did manage to finish it all, which I'm quite happy about.  Given more time, it all would have been more polished, but with the time allowed, I'm relatively satisfied with it.  Below are grids, thumbnails, roughs, and finished pencils with lettering.  

 For our next project, we were given a script from a comic about Wyatt Earp, famous western law man.  I quite enjoyed this project, particularly because I got to collaborate with my dad, in a way, and he's a top notch expert on the history of the Old West and Wyatt Earp (and many others) particularly.  I consulted him to maintain historical accuracy in my depictions as best I could and he gave me a lot of fantastic reference material to work with.  Below are the thumbs, grids, and roughs. 

For our most recent project, we were required to write a two page script, the subject being some sort of journey.  Aside from that requirement, we could write about anything we wanted.  My story takes place in Tittawin, Morocco in 1914.  Two figures, Tilelli and Amezyan are sneaking into the Casbah  of José Marina Vega, the High Commissioner of Spanish Morocco, to steal his prize sabre, a symbol of his power in Spanish Morocco.  Tilelli and Amezyan are part of a group of Barbary pirates, who are seeking to overthrow the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco.  In the middle of the theft, they are seen by guards, who attempt to capture them.  The guards give chase out the window of the casbah and across the street.  Tilelli disables a guard about to fire on the two of them by throwing a knife into his gun, which backfires.  The two jump down off the roof onto their horse, and ride off.  Tilelli's turban is removed to reveal that she is, in fact, a blond caucasian girl.  She turns and mocks the guards as the two escape.  

I love the things I'm coming up with for this story and would love to take it further in the future.  As far as the project is concerned, I really wish I'd had a couple more pages to spread the action over, because I feel the small space I had to convey the actions I wanted caused some compression of events, which took away some of the clarity I'd have liked to get across.  I'm relatively pleased with the pages however, and I look forward to working with this story and these characters more in the near future.  Thumbnails, grids, and roughs are below.  

 

 Well, that's about all for now (a lot, I know).  I'm working on final projects in my classes now, so when I get done with those, you'll see them up here.  

Until next time!  

Chris