Week two

Week two

This week we had to create illustrations based on a news story based on a Indonesian that lost their children in the floods in Indonesia’s in 2004 but found their children 10 years later.

The intent of this project was to investigate the use of visual metaphors to communicate complex emotional response. So in generally we had to create an illustration that generated the emotional of the families lost or the families reunion. We also had a reference of Shaun Tan who creates illustrations with a sense of surrealism. We had to apply this idea of Shaun Tan work to my own work. The book that we were referencing to was the “The arrival” which is based on Shaun Tan own experience of moving to a new place. This is all visual described through the Architecture of the buildings and the creatures of the place. This is done to show the idea of alienation to the character but also the reader.

With this aim I did some drafts on what I planned to do with this idea of the news story that we read. At first I planned on going for a graphic novel panel in which I wanted the family to be separated and reunion. But with this idea overall as presentation it was not the aim of the task in which we have to make it more surreal. So then I decided to develop this idea with more through simplistic, so I developed this idea that maybe it could be present through tear because I could add a reflection of child be taken away. But overall this I thought was too simplistic so I want to appeal the idea of double purpose. So I decide to go for hands that are looking like they are joining or separated. With this idea I presented to Kieran, overall this idea was good but it could use a bit more of surrealism applied to the image. So I added the idea of adding a little figure at the bottom of the hands of the girl from the story and the hands would be designed out of wreckage from the story and the other out of waves. Overall this project was great to help gain the idea of what to do when ideal creating a illustration for a newspaper article. But overall I would not like to continue with idea with my future project because it was something that I was not overall keen about but I would not mind it if i got asked by a company/commissioned to do it.          

Design and idea process while looking at Shaun Tan work

Idea thumbnails one

Idea thumbnails two