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“ALL IN THE FAMILY” |GD 3|
Fall 2014 | Final Project Katelyn Plecker
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Project Brief
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Overview
Family Story
This assignment centers around the telling of a narrative through the means of a series of
Sketches
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panels. You will select a personal family legend/myth or story and tell it using graphic visuals
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and text.
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Synopsis “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a strang- er comes to
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Inspiration
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Final Design
town.”—Leo Tolstoy As families gather, stories are often told and re-told again. Occasionally these tales are repeated so often that they are ingrained into the identity of the family—it becomes part of who they are. The tales are something which unites them as a group.
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The series of panels you create will tell one of your personal family stories in a graphical
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means of your choice. to bring back with you as a memento or souvenir.
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Family Story At the age of nearly five I was known for being an adventurous
Since Bryce could hardly talk my mother brushed it off and
child. Growing up with two brothers caused many childhood
thought maybe he was just getting a cold. Sure enough
memories of time outs, groundings, and being scoulded by our
about three hours later he sneezed and in the palm of his
parents. Being the oldest child, I naturally felt the need to over-
hands for all to see was the miniature pair of pink colored
power my younger siblings and I did so by bullying them.
Barbie sunglasses.
One story that my family will never let down is the day that I
To this day it is a story that gets brought up in conversation
shoved pink Barbie sunglasses up my brother Bryce’s nose. For
at nearly every family gathering. It most likely will even be-
hours he would walk up to my mother pointing at his nose
come a joke worthy story to tell our own kids one day. I also
saying “ouch” and my mom saw nothing stuck up there.
will make sure that my future children never treat their siblings the way I treated my little brother Bryce in the desperate search for attention.
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Sketches
This shows the process of taking my own pencil drawings and editing them in Illustrator to include color. I did this with the drawing of my brother, my mother, the open faced hands, and the barbie sunglasses.
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Carpet texture that was used as a background image behind the hands grabbing the barbie sunglasses, and behind the open faced hands holding the barbie glasses.
More examples of handrawn material that was used in the project. Above: The drawing of the hands was my favorite sketch that was used in this project.
Bryce really did have something up his nose...
...needles to say I got in big trouble.
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Final Design Concept
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Color Swatches
Inspiration This shows the process I
Here I included a few images
went through when pick-
of story boards that inspired my
ing out a color palette. I
design. Over all i loved the use of
looked at the site http://
illustrations mixed with the use of
design-seeds.com/ to
personal penicl sketches.
choose a variety of pastel colors along with vibrant pinks and purples.
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Final Design
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Written Statement
The project “All in the Family” became a fun final project that touched a
The in-class critique was very helpful in my opinion. Looking back on the
personal place in my heart. This process book shows my journey from the
project I would revisit the use of text and use the same fonts instead of two
starting point of sharing my story, to a final visual deisgn that sums it up into
different ones to achieve a more cohesive design. I would also think about
a sequenced story board. It was a constant process of thinking and re-de-
spreading out the use of hand drawn and illustrative material since the
signing until it finally clicked.
bottom half was basically where all my hand drawn sketches were.
The family story is always the same, when i was about five years old i
I’m very pleased with the way my layout worked along with the use of my
caught my little brother Bryce in my room playing with my barbies. To
color palette. I stuck to magenta, purple, blue, and green all with a pastel
punish him i shoved a pair of the barbie sunglasses up his nose and three
tint to them based on color swatches i found during research. I’m also very
hours later he sneezed and they were left soaked in snot in the palm of his
proud of the way my illustrations of the two different views of the nostrils,
hands. I felt that that story in particular could amont to great visuals and
and the illustrations of the characters came out. This project definitely
also become very challenging for my illustrative skills.
strengthened my ability to render characters and different perspectives with my own sketches and also with the help of Adobe Illustrator.
Bringing my own sketches and illustrations into this project is what made it so personal for me. I began with scanning in my original drawings into the
For the class as a whole I was very proud of the way our story boards
computer and then coloring over them in illustrator. with different paint
turned out and I love that we all critiqued eachother throughout the entire
brushes. Based my inspiration I found during research I wanted to create a
process. There definitely are things that I would revisit to improve the over
variety, some hand drawn and others made on the Adobe software. The
all design, but in the end I am very proud of this as a final project. After
use of text was what seemed to challenge me the most in completing a
completing this final I now understand the method to the madness of
solid story. To find a happy medium i illustrated some of the text and also
Graphic Design III.
used actual text in the final piece.
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