Week 9/10

Week 9/10

'Popping out'

'Kaityln pops to the Museum'

For this project, we were asked to choose a character from out local/London folk project and develop them, to create a small narrative without words, that entails said character taking a walk through/to somewhere. We did this using 8 'scenes'.

I decided straight away to to Kaitlyn, my artistic character, as I found alot of inspiration from her design and straight away came up with many ideas of where I could take her. Moreover, I already had a very good idea on how to develop her character without taking away from her original drawing. I did so by doing a front and back view of her outfit (with developments like the fitting and boots). I also added potential colour palette ideas and aesthetics to give me ideas for adding more to the character. Adding to this, I created a character movement sheet, to practise how my character would move around my ideal areas. 

After all of this was decided, I started creating thumbnails for the 8 scenes. I decided to choose a museum for my character to walk through as that's where I spotted the inspired person, and I believe it also suits her style. Her base story is she's actually a thief (art thief), and is seen wandering through the museum, before quickly escaping through the back to hold out her stolen treasure in the museum garden/park. 

Doing this idea very sketchy and quickly, as can be seen in the photo, made it simple to follow and allowed me to truly experiment with ideas.


I then got to test my way of presenting my work, through a paper folding technique I had seen online artists use. Below is first the tester video, then my two final products. Although the paints and layers made the pages tough to move sometimes, I'm satisfied with how it came out. I'm not fond of my second paper folder at all, I believe I could of done everything about it better, however I love the first one. I can see my confidence and experimentation in the first, whereas in the second I got tired and lazy with it.




(1 - Tester, 2 - first paper folder, 3 - second paper folder)


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