I see faces- Hand rendered development

I decided to follow the same character through all my gifs, as I felt this would be most interesting and challenging to me, especially since my character work is not too strong, so I was eager to develop it through ways other than just adding faces to inanimate objects. I used the light box and graphite/coloured pencil to create the drawings, as I wanted a 'home made' feel to the gif, which I think shows through in the work. I wanted to create a quiet feel to the gif by having the action at the bottom, which would balance off the movement in the pencil work elsewhere, but this is not too clear and makes the knitting almost disappear.

What I like:

- Colours and contrast to white paper

- Character comes through in narrative- think slight movement shows considered and quiet personality

- Like difference between blocked out and thin pencil line

What needs improvement:

- Composition- Could have made the character smaller and knitting more central to create more impact

- Could have done fewer, more precise drawings with simple knitting movement

- Colours and shape of scarf could be more consistent

What I learnt:

- Consider composition before committing to drawings, do more precise, detailed roughs

- Process of using light boxing to create sequential imagery

- To consider movement of line and detail as well as character movement

- The process of making gifs which line up and work to create the illusion of movement

Halfway through, simple pencil drawing

Final drawing scanned

Final drawing scanned

Final drawing scanned

First trial without altering levels

Attempt with slight level altering

Edges show, needs cropping, but like levels

I found a book called Norwegian Illustrators no04, which had loads of character design and development I liked.

I chose these two illustrators in particular because I find their work really loose and slightly messy, which is what I wanted my hand rendered gif to show, especially like Hobal's work, which I can almost see the movement of the animal through the line, which I really want to emulate through my practise in order to create a dynamic and endearing outcome.

Tone Lileng

Randi Hobal