For this exercise I was supposed to pick an activity and sketch it step by step. As I work full time, to save some time, I decided to draw my day any other activities I did wouldn’t have covered at least 20 pages. This does mean that the images don’t flow as well as they should. Time skips very quickly and the subject of the images change drastically. This also doesn’t fully fit the criteria set out in front of me however I feel that I have still learnt from this exercise.
Putting these images together I found that it is easy to make the story feel disjointed. The size, shape and subject can affect how the story will feel and flow. I found this as one of my images was originally portrait. I had to crop it so that it would fit with the other images and not ruin how smoothly it ran. I also found when resizing the images to 12x6cm that they more closely resembled the point of few as it cut out what was seen on the edges of my vision.
The large jumps of time in my images don’t allow the viewer to lose themselves and get sucked into the story. It does document my day well but doesn’t make for a good comic. Some of the images were drawn from memory and others from photos that I took for reference. I think it’s fairly clear which is which. I tried to draw things as I saw them, including my hand if that is what I saw.
Illustration log 