Story in a Picture

 5-Part Story Assignment

Audition Assignment

Below are portfolio pages and some roghs

My story is about a boy who dreams to be a space hero fighting with aliens. In a coincidence, he discovers a real alien outside his room, but the alien does not look evil at all. Then, the boy meets the space hero he respects the most, but it turns out that the hero is a treasure hunter who kills innocent aliens. At last, the hero ironically falls into the trap set up to capture alien.

I spent a lot of time rethinking the story, not less than the time painting. The story was totally different at the beginning. My first thought was a story about a girl and a wanted robot who died from protecting the girl. Then, I changed the story to a scientist who did not like his robot very much. But I still could not solve the story so I changed it again to a boy and a space police. Finally, I changed the character into a cute alien and an evil space hero. Although I didn't post them above, I did many more roughs and had redone my drawings many times.

It was kind of a painful process, but I am glad than I finally resolve the story, from realizing that it would be easier to be clear about the background(location) of the story. I had problems deciding solutions and I am a little regretful about giving up original ideas too soon. Anyway this was really a great exercise and I am glad that I finish them in time.

This assignment is to create a picture of an audition, which must includes three classes of people. I misunderstood the assignment at first and the three panels below are my roughs. But I kept the original idea of a "monster(or actually kaiju)" audition.

And this one is actually the first assignment. We wrote a short story of overcoming the monster and then also made drawings along the story.

I really like this class. It was also great to see other people's stories. AlthoughI am not that satisfied with my final works, I felt I learned a lot from the class. I hope I could get better at thinking stories and also making my works to have more stories to look at.

Digital Painting - 9th Term

First assignment for this class is a custom brush exercise. I didn't spend a lot of time but it turned out to be maybe the best from other assignments. I never tried using custom brushes this way before, so it was quite interesting.

This one is using brushes with color dynamics. I didn't do this really well. I think it would be better to not be afraid to use more colors.

This assignment is to create a flat space futuristic city. This one troubled me the most, and I still am not really sure about what should I do. Anyway, it is quite interesting to learn about the photo bash technique. But I couldn't turn it into my painting successfully.

This one is to create a deep space environment. I used photo of Japanese temple as reference. Grid was quite helpful.

Creating character using Bezier curve. I designed a music robot. I like this one quite much and I am thinking to add color and more details other time.

10 Rectangles exercise

Ball exercises

Color key exercises with given drawings

And the last one is the final project, which we could choose to do anything. I chose to draw a short comic. This is a reinvented story from the famous Japanese tale "Momotaro." I didn't have much time so it was quite messy but I really had fun doing this. This is almost my first time drawing comic all digitally and also first time coloring in Photoshop. It actually was faster than the normal way I draw and it turned out not bad. I would like to try more and spend more time in the future.