Thumbnail Developments

Perspective Imagery

Collected some perspective imagery to help aid me when I start doing my own work digitally.

Stylistic Research

Going for a more illustrated approach to suit the style of the New Scientist magazine. I also like the look of the simple and clean cut images when produced on illustrator. Researched alternatives that I could incorporate with my current style.

Surrealist illustration may be quite interesting to tell a story.

Perspective was also a nice touch to the image as it creates a visual flow.

I like the use of water colour and ink/ink pen. 

It adds nice detail to the overall image and it is also a nice way to 

create and show texture like the wood.

I like the simple illustration - clean cut and simple images - 

what I am currently going for. The foreground can be the most 

detailed to emphasise their importance. I also like how 

the background is quite washed out with the same sepia colour 

but the important subject is a vibrant red so it pops out of the image.

I quite like the Disney illustration style. The shading in particular 

really stands out in this image. It will be helpful when it comes to 

shading my own work.  

I like how they use pen to do the details and outline 

and then wash out paint to fill in the colours. 

The paint bleeding out of the outline also eliminates 

the roughness of the outline.

The use of mix media. Clipping in photographs to create 

patterns / fill in the image like the girl's blouse. The use of 

pen, illustrator and photography works well together in this image

as the colours are similar shades and tones of each other. 

I find Disney illustrations to be quite interesting as they 

are not over the top detailed but just the simple use of colours 

and shading can change the expression and atmosphere of the 

image. 

All images are from pinterest.

Referenced Imagery

Research - Creation of conspiracies/myths

Developing my conspiracy ideas as I had misunderstood the brief. Needed to research on the conspiracy creation rather than the conspiracy theory itself. Decided to go with conspiracy that the moon is made out of cheese. As independent research, I had to think/make up of how the conspiracy was created. 

General research to help me start thinking on how the conspiracy could had been created/started.

1.
http://ww2.cfo.com/growth-companies/2007/04/looks-like-cheese-smells-like-fraud/

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/13/paulwebster1

Cheese fraud - scamming consumers so they can earn more money. 
Cheese company advertising their cheese as cheese from the moon. 
Dodgy business - telling people that the moon is made out of cheese and informing them that the business sells the best moon cheese. 


2.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/moon-not-made-of-cheese-physicist-e-11-10-19/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53107/why-do-people-say-moon-made-cheese

Government wanted to know what the moon is made of - pressuring the scientist to find out by a certain due date. Scientist not knowing what the moon is made out of and was running out of time decided to create the conspiracy as the moon has craters similar to a cheese. The government announces on media that the moon is made out of cheese.


3.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/jan/20/goat-cheese-shortage-2014-chevre-vegetarians

Mouse leader (Maybe portrayed as the government) tells the other mice that there is a cheese shortage and the only way to get more cheese is to go to the moon. However the moon is not really made out of cheese but the mouse leader created the conspiracy so that he can have all the cheese to himself down on earth.

Composition Hierarchy

Notes

Class Exercise 

Playing around with composition and perspective

Thumbnails - Dinosaur Conspiracy

Dinosaur conspiracy thumbnails I drew: 

Dinosaurs still exists. 

Being hold captive by the government.

Hiding dinosaurs in space, while blaming the aliens. 

Government actually killed the dinosaurs, trying to cover up.

Dinosaur Imagery

Looked at some dinosaur imagery to see what their environment use to look like and how they behaved. Some of the images also became an inspiration for some composition idea. I partically liked the one with the ufo. Although dinosaurs are known to be frightening creatures, the composition of the dinosaur looking up at the ufo makes them look more vulnerable next to the foreign object which looks more dominant.

Conspiracy Theory Research - Dinosaurs

I was still uncertain about my moon topic so I decided to explore some conspiracy/myth ideas for the dinosaurs. 

Humans lived alongside dinosaurs -Dinosaurs and people coexist only in books, movies and cartoons. The last dinosaurs - other than birds - died out dramatically about 65 million years ago, while the fossils of our earliest human ancestors are only about 6 million years old.

Dinosaurs died out because mammals ate their eggs - Dinosaurs coexisted with mammals for 150 million years. Although dinosaur nests were undoubtedly vulnerable, the most dangerous predators were probably smaller dinosaurs. Most mammals of the time were probably too small to eat the eggs of large dinosaurs.

An asteroid impact alone killed the dinosaurs - A layer of iridium-rich rock marks the impact 65 million years ago of a 10-kilometre asteroid in shallow water covering what is now Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. That impact formed the 180 kilometre-wide Chicxulub crater. There is no convincing evidence that any non-avian dinosaurs survived the aftermath of the impact. Yet we are still not totally sure how the dinosaurs died. 

The impact itself could only have killed the dinosaurs in the immediate vicinity of the crater. But it also produced devastating after-effects including giant tsunamis, rain that may have been as acidic as battery acid, and clouds of dust that darkened and cooled the globe for months or even decades.

Another theory suggests that before the impact, dinosaurs were already dwindling as falling sea levels and volcanic eruptions took their toll. A combination of those effects probably wiped out the dinosaurs.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9936-top-10-dinosaur-myths.html#.U-SKuVZKYpE

The dinosaurs went extinct because they became "too big." - This one has some truth to it, with an important qualification. The 20-ton titanosaurs living at the end of the Cretaceous period would have had to eat hundreds of pounds of vegetation every day, putting them at a distinct disadvantage when plants withered and died from lack of sunlight (and also crimping the style of the multi-ton tyrannosaurs that preyed on the titanosaurs). But dinosaurs weren't "punished" by some supernatural force for growing too big, too complacent and too self-satisfied, as some biblically minded moralists continue to claim.

The dinosaurs were rendered extinct by insects/bacteria/aliens. - While it's true that disease-spreading insects may have hastened the demise of the dinosaurs, after they were already weakened by cold and hunger, no reputable scientist believes that the K/T meteor impact had a lesser effect on dinosaurs than million of pesky mosquitoes or new strains of bacteria. As for theories involving aliens, time travel or warps in the space-time continuum, that's grist for Hollywood producers, not serious, working scientists.

http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/dinosaurextinction/a/extinctionmyths.htm

Thumbnails - Moon Conspiracy

Moon conspiracy thumbnails I drew: 

Moon landing was a hoax. 

Nazis are actually hiding on the moon. 

The full moon (Lunacy) changes behaviours. 

The moon is made out of cheese.

Moon Imagery

Some reference images I have collected to use as inspiration when drawing up my story-boards.