Project 1 "Hilda, a comic for young women"
Research "Other female characters welcomed by youth" PRESENT COMICS MARKET
WONDER WOMAN TODAY
Fo r Wo n d e r Wo m a n s c h o l a r M i t r a C . E m a d, t h e s u p e r h e ro c a n be read as hypersexual based on representations of her clothed, physical figure, “marked by a large amount of flowing hair ” and “large breasts and a costume that barely covers her body ” Emad i s n o t t h e f i r s t t o p o i n t o u t t h e re l a t i o n s h i p b e t we e n Wo n d e r Woman’s clothing and her sexualit y. A female editor of Wonder Woman commented that “ There has been a tendency in the past to play up W W as a rather sex y creature […] Her costume may be one of the reasons why she creates this impression,” followed by t h e s u g g e s t i o n t h a t s h e we a r a s k i r t a s o p p o s e d to s h o r t s. H e re, Wo n d e r Wo m a n’s co s t u m e i s s p e c i f i c a l l y m e nt i o n e d a s a reason she may be viewed as hypersexual. Similar ly, according t o E d w a r d A v e r y - N a t a l e , a f e m a l e w r i t e r f o r Wo n d e r Wo m a n “r e q u e s t e d t h a t t h e c h a r a c t e r ’s b r e a s t s b e r e d u c e d i n s i z e t o m a k e h e r m o r e r e a l i s t i c , b u t h e r r e q u e s t w a s d e n i e d ”. T h e s e instances indicate that Wonder Woman was created as a purposefully hypersexual character. As Michael R. Lavin explains in “ Women in Comic B ooks,” the “contradic tion is that bet ween women as role models and as sex objects […] they are invariably depic ted as alluring objec ts of desire, wearing the scantiest of costumes”
CONCLUSION & FANS'S VOICE
Posted by H wkfan296 (174 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio But I think the other reason people like more realistic superheroes is because we can relate to them..... These are problems many people in reallife deal with. It's nice to see heroes who fight villains that attack the world deal with issues that we ourselves deal with.
In February
In September
M a r k e t R e s e a r c h S a y s 4 6 . 6 7 % o f C o m i c Fa n s are Female
In the Gosh Comic store, where I asked the s h o p k e e p e r s o m e i n fo r m a t i o n a b o u t t h e i r m o s t bestselling comics: the MS. MARVEL, NIMONA, SOGA are drawn by female ar tists and welcomed by most female fans in recent years. And they are recommended by some feminists. Thus, I g o t t h e m a n d a n a l y s e t h e i r s t o r y l i n e, c h a r a c t e r design....
I re a l l y w a n te d t h e re to b e m o re i co n i c o p t i o n s fo r p e o p l e w h o w a n t to dress as female characters, but not necessarily be sexy or sensual or overtly feminine, especially in the superhero realm. So it was definitely in my m i n d , b u t t h e n s h e d i d n’t r e a l l y e n d u p b e i n g t h a t c o s p l a y a b l e, m o s t l y because of her hair, because you really have to commit to that haircut or figure a way to fake your way around it. So I considered the way that some women might want to dress or see a female charac ter represented, but I didn’t feel constrained to stick to that in a really literal way, explained by Stevenson(2015).
A heroine's journey Almost heroines' stories follow a set of rules:
I sorted the stories of the heroines in the different fields. D u r i n g t h e w a r, I f o u n d t h r e e women who protected the Alana (main chatacter)
shadow
herald
gurdian
mentor
A l t h o u g h t h e re a re m a ny fe m a l e c h a r a c t e r s w i t h d i f fe re n t a p p e a r a n c e, outfit s, body sha pes, t he im age of Alan a is si ngle, isolated, she does n' t wear sexual tights. A normal coat and a vest combined with her shor t hairstyle outstand her a decisive, determined personality, but a dress also portrays her feminine. She shows her breast not to be sexy, but to feed her baby, which also reflected maternal love. it is different from other comics when a female shows her body. M ore impor tantly, she doesn' t have any special sk ills and power, she just uses her brave and intelligence to face the challenges. Her image is closer to a contemporar y woman, who is a brave soldier, sweet mother and wife.
people or treated the wounded soldiers. Meanwhile, Irena Sendler saved the highest Rachel Carson.
Amelia Earhart
Anne Frank
Jane Eyre
Joan of Arc
Yevdokiya Nikolayevna Zavaliy
Miep Gies
Clara Barton
Mary Anning
Jane Goodall
Hedy Lamarr
Irena Sendler
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
In the social work,
Marie Curie
Emilie du Chatelet
n u m b e r o f p e o p l e i n t h e w a r. She was only ordinar y heroine who was even tortured by Nazis for years. Thus, accoeding
Rosa Parks
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Helen Keller
Mulan Fa
to their experiences showing
Jo March
a pure humanitarianism and humanist
Lisbeth Salander
Harriet Tubman
Ruby Bridges
Katniss Everdeen
courage, I put them in order.
Posted by acer51 (2695 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio We w a n t s o m e o n e t o i n s p i r e t h e h e r o within us. If we "humanize" these charac ters but keep true to their "hero" people will look at them and say " that could be me" because he/she is one of us and he strives to achieve and do what's right, so we can do the same.
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.......my point is that people like superheroes who have problems they can understand.
Fo r m e a t l e a s t , a r e a l i s t i c s u p e r h e r o h e l p s to re m i n d m e t h at t h e wo r l d i s nt such a shitty place, and that sometimes normal people can make a difference.
According to the feedbacks, I was suggested t o f i n d a s t r o n g f e m a l e t o e d i t m y s t o r y. Based on my works that I haven done, I have found there are a number of strong female in the comic books but most of them have a s p e c i a l s u p e r p owe r, s u c h a s , s h a p e s h i f t , flying and talented at comminicate with g o d s , o r c a n r e a d o t h e r s ' m i n d . H o w e v e r, when I browsed the comic forum, lots of comic fans put forward they would like to read some real stor y about real strong women, which might make these story closer to their ever yday life, and also It
Most of heroines in the comics have a special skill like shifting a body shape, flying in the sky, or have a amazing appearance, which might cause audience have a less echo with their stor y, beacause we are hard to approach their life or do the same thing as the them. Next, I will give you some evidents why we need a more realistic heroine in a comic.
PANEL SKETCH
RESEARCH FOR A STORY
THE NEW FEMALE COMICS (MS. MARVEL) I n comparison with the new mar vel comics , the original captain mar vel was created like a goddess, an American beauty who has less female emotion and always be wise, calm, sex y but strong . But in the new MS. MAR VEL the main character has mutiple emotions and be sensitive, she also does something on impulse, after that, she nearly freaks out. More impor tant, she cannot release a laser by hands and grasp var ious power ful sk ills, instead, she even can be hur t by a gun, and her garment was designed by herself. This new character is a imper fec t woman without charming appearance, who is closer to a realistic life, which could make audience have more resonation with her.
RESEARCH FEEDBACK
would be easier for fans to take this strong female as a role models to learn from them. I will analyse some realistic comics aimed at women, hopefully, it would help me to have a real story about a real strong female.
INTERMEDIA CRITIC & FEEDBACK In the critic, I was suggested to edit a modern stor y, which might make readers to approach comic story easier. B esides, a concept of this story should be delivered clearly. Thus, I went to the Manga exibition to research how professional ar tist invent a story. After that, I invented a story again, but most of peers who read my stor y suggested me to create a story based on my real experience, which might make readers more accessible.
CHARACTER DESIGN
Experiment & Reflection "Testing different scenarios" REFERENCE
PIN-UP THE STORY IDEA
According to my feedbacks, I decided to take my stor y for archetype although I did lots of test on editing other stories and character design such as PEAL. I s t a r te d w i t h s o m e co n t r a d i t i o n i n t h e wo n d e r wo m a n , w h i c h i n s p i re d m e to do some research on the strong female in the comics. During this period, I found there are lots of comic fans are eager to read some real stor y about wo m e n w i t h o u t a ny m a g i c . A f t e r I d i d m a ny t e s t i n g s o n f i n d i n g a s t o r y, I t h o u g h t my e x p e r i e n c e i n t h e s c h o o l w o u l d b e t a k e n a s a c o m i c s c e n a r i o, which might help peers to approach my comic. The story that I wanted to share is about solutions of anti-bullying. I am always pride of my solution against bullying effectively in the school. Besides, bullying is a big problem in the school, what I want to do is to encourage people like me, to find their own solutions instead of keeping silent in bullying.
CHARACTER DESIGN FOR MY STORY
DRAWING FOR MY STORY
FINAL CRITIC& OUTCOME
Scenario
Reflection I am joyful some feedback that I received in the final critic, which pushed me to think about improving interaction in the comic to make people engage in the comic. Therefore, I handmade a book let where people can fill their own anti-bullying solutions, then share with others. Hopefully, these help to improve comic's interaction and help people to get some a n t i - b u l l y i n g t i p s . Fi n a l l y, i n o r d e r t o m a k e p e o p l e p a y m u c h attention on bullying, I designed a video to empower audience.
TESTING MOVEMENT AND MORPHING FOR VIDEO
75*75mm
FINAL IMAGE
and I know everyone could be
All people have choices to be a
brave.
hero.
and I know everyone could be
Sometimes, some guys will feel
brave.
cool and strong by chooseing to
and do it over and over.
If you have some tricks , please write
Size: 210mm*148mm
and share with your friends.
In the small booklet, some dialogue bubbles haven't been filled, thus, people could be encouraged to write their own dialogue and share some anti-bullying solutions.
Page number: 7 pages If you know few tricks against someone is bullying you.
bullying.
be mean to those,
Big eyes,small eyes,tall or short, it's dosen't matter
Who are small and weak.
but we can do something to stop.
Big eyes,small eyes,tall or short, it's
They will bully someone can't do
But we can do something to stop
dosen't matter.
or say anything back.
bullying.
Big eyes,small eyes,tall or short, it's
Who are small and weak.
but we can do something to stop.
They will bully someone can't do
But we can do something to stop
or say anything back.
bullying.
Hi, I'm Hilda
dosen't matter.
Hi, I'm Hilda
ANTI-BULLYING SIZE: 1920*1080P
All people have choices to be a
and do it over and over.
hero.
and I know everyone could be
Sometimes, some guys will feel
brave.
cool and strong by chooseing to be mean to those,
If you have some tricks , please write and share with your friends.
If you know few tricks against someone is bullying you.
bullying.
I dubed for my video by using voice application. I recorded many times and adjusted the rhythm and volume of speaking. After that, I did a final clipping.
DURATION: 48s 25f/s LINK: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=6_y3ACEx-hg.
Project 2 "A twilight dream"
DESIGNING PLOTS & INTIAL SKETCH In old age, there must be some regret before closing one's eyes. Although he is afraid of time, it is only because of this that he can pluck up his courage. This is a brief story about Grandpa who decided to fulfill his dream in a limited time to become a ballerina in a difficult time.
CONTROVERSY ABOUT SENIOR BALLET DANCING
MALE BALLET DANCER TODAY
In addition to the voice coming from the ballet dancers, there are lots of other voice from their families and friends. I collected their voice from forums and interviews.
93 percent of boys involved in ballet reported “teasing and name calling,” and 68 percent experienced “verbal or physical harassment.” Eleven percent said they were victims of physical harm at the hands of people who targeted them because they are boys who study dance, reported by Chloe Angyal (2017). Especially, some senior citizens who participated in the ballet were laughed at, which might make fewer old men dance.
Pr ince G eorge can' t wait to begin ballet classes, and Lara Spencer is regretting ever questioning it. The "Good Morning America" host is apologizing after poking fun at the 6-year-old taking dance classes as a par t of his school's curriculum. Viewers were quick to turn their nose at her tone, with male dancers condemning her stance. "So You Think You Can Dance" choreographer Travis S cott said, "I found your comments to be ver y upsetting." InsideEdition.com's Leigh Scheps has more.
INTERVIEW ABOUT ELDERLY MALE DANCER
MALE
FEMALE 20 : 1
From a young age, far more girls than boys are interested in ballet, so much so that girls are estimated to outnumber boys 20-to-1 in ballet classes, stated by Kim Elsesser (2019). According to my research, I found that compared to the female ballet dancers, the number of male ballet dancers get lower , some of which due to the public discrimination in the dancing industr y. More i m p o r t a n t l y, i n t h e s e d a n c e r s , t h e y o u n g d a n c e r more than elderly, which might generate a incorrect conclusion : the ballet can not be suitable for the old. However, some elderly people still prove that ballet is positive for them.
An elderly wants to pick up a childhood dream-to be a dancer after his retired and his children have become grow-ups and pursue their own careers. Thus, the old man desires to complete his dream in the rest time.
Never Too Old to Dance: Benefits of Ballet for Seniors
"Ballet can also help to stretch muscles, straighten bones, and fight dementia, due to the fact that it requires focus to memorize and execute many of the ballet combinations and steps for dances."
"Ballet is great for older bodies as it isn’t a high-impact exercise like running, so there is less chance for injury to older joints."
"Fun of getting out and mixing with other seniors."
Childhood memory: being forced to give up the dream when he was young. He secretly looking at the dance room when his young age, which makes him to consider to be a dancer. In the family meeting, he attempts to put forward this dream, which meets with strong opposition from his families. Conversely, a young dancer willing to help him in the dancing studio: the old man was stunned by the dancer’s ballet. And try to mock dancers’ movements. But he got a injury, which made him depressed.
FINAL CONCEPT To sum up, there are many benefits the people could have when they do a bellet, which could help to lower the risk of dementia, heart disease, more importantly, it also could help to regain the joy and confidence when they retired, and make new friends. Therefore, the everyone could be ballet dancer. But some of people would be depressed since they donnot get some supports from families and friends. Therefore, I want to create an inspirational figure to encourage most of people to persue their dreams, also tell them to be more supportive to others who want to dance.
On day, there are a bunch of disabled dancers exercise in the studio, which cheer him up and realized the true ballet dancing. Everyone could be a ballet dancer! Finally, he become a ballet dancer after the hardships.
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Reference
COIOURING TEST & FEEDBACK
I was enjoyable when I did some colouring experiments. Most of my co-workers and peers thought the hue in the panel suppose to be warm, which might make readers easier to be immersive in this Heartwarming story.Therefore, I tried to applied pink and light yellow to create atmosphere.
FINAL IMAGES(A PICTURE BOOK)
Project 3 "The new door-god"
Project 4"Freeze your legs" (A brief animation)
RESEARCH ON MANSPREADING Travelling time
“LATCH” means location, alphabet, time, category, Hierarchy, all of which helped me to organize the data, and visualized them. Thus, we were encouraged to find and analyse data from the London tubes. I was very joyful with that.
Overcrowding
The hapiness of the London commuters
Household& parttime jobs& study
Eye contact When I paid more attention on commuters, I found the most of commuters lack of smile, and tend to lean against wall. Thus, I was curious about the commuters' self- feeling, and I try to find the underlying causes of their disappearing smile. So I design a questionnaire to ask them. These question from 'The Guardian', which helps to judge people's hapiness.
In the first stage of this module, I enjoyed using “LATCH” to collect some data, which made me learn a new visualised presentation method to deal with data. Thus, l applied “LATCH” it in my primary research, which I did in the London underground to get the inspiration in the tube. However, there were a superficial research about the size of stations and the numbers of the commuters in the peak time of the stations, but I still ignored to dig these causes behind a phenomenon, which should be more important in the primary research in my visual storytelling.
Manspreading Refusing to move Lean on the pole with butt Cliping and Primping Backpack against others
Bad courtesy
In order to clarify factors affecting commuters' anxiety, I collected some commuters' voices. The bad courtesy is a big reason why communters get uncomfortable in the travelling.
This is why I decided to pay much attention to the manspreading in a carriage rather than other places, The manspreading in the tube seems more likely to make trouble. Meanwhile, the spreading out legs in the tube is a starter of this anti-behaviours.
THE MEANING OF MANSPREADING In the animal kingdom, many animal use their open, explosive to attract mates, like peacocks, they fan their feathers to peahens(Phypost, 2017). But there is a different explanation from penguin, In addition to being essential for swimming, flippers are also used for communication among penguins. These birds will pat or tap each other's flippers as part of their courtship behavior, and flipper wave can be used to show aggression, agitation, excitement or dominance ( Melissa , 2018).
RESEARCH CONCLUSION & FINAL CONCEPT According to the Amy cuddy, who is a social psychologist , she said spread out is kind of method to show power and accordingly, when you fe e l c o n f i d e n t , w e t e n d t o spread out. Another thing is even we lack of nerve, we want to pretend we are the power ful man, we tend to do a manspread.
A l s o, s h e m e n t i o n e d t h a t i t i s associated with occupation,the people who often engage in high participation work more likely to do a spread- out posture.
EXPERIMENT Objective: To understand what kind of images can generate coldest illusion.
In the paintings, the manspreading can be seen as a kind of way to show outstanding, powerful and dignity, in sculptures, the manspreading is a good behaviour of the greats.With the R enaissance, people pursued their own dreams, ideas, emotions, real life, so the manspreading is a signal of awakening of self-awareness, and it represented the liberty in that times. Nowdays, the manspreading shows mans'power, asser tive and social dominance. I n a addition, it can represent confident, steady, reliable and special male charm. In other hand, feminist think that is a disrespectable behaviours and sexism, such a offensive posture in the public areas, In spain, the manspreading can be seen as a crime like sexual harassment. but in Japan, it is just a kind of subconscious bad behaviours, cannot damage society. Besides, a social psychologist think manspreading is a per formance of people show confidence and it can increase confidence too. In semiotics, manspreading is a feature, help us tick a gender blank.
Target group: 20-30 young people Pr o c e s s : R e q u s t 2 0 t a r g e t p e o p l e s e l e c t 5 i m a g e s g i v i n g t h e m coldest feeling, then, let's them choose textures making them feel cold.
Th o u g h b o o k s I h ave l e a r nt t h e co l d e nv i ro n m e nt s m i g ht d e c re a s e t h e s e x h o r m o n e a n d a l s o m a k e p e o p l e h u d d l e, helping to reduce the social dominance. Combining with my finding: in these seperate visual contents, there is a common: people tend to spread out in a cozy, safety, warm and familiar enviroments. Thus, there is a possible that a cold environment will help people reduce spreading out spontaneously.
Dating back to the Renaissance — and it wasn' t even just for the common commuter. Scholars, musicians and even kings have been known to showing off his unnecessarily wide gait, argued by Romano (2015). which seem made them more outstanding, powerful and dignity. Manspreading is the typical posture in that era.
Th e e a r l i e s t s c u l p t u re wa s p ro b a b l y m a d e to s u p p l y m a gi c a l h e l p to hunters. After the dawn of civilization, statues were used to represent gods worshiped by people.Ancient kings, possibly in the hope of mak ing themselves immor tal,The Greeks made statues that depic ted per fectly formed men and women, according to The History of Sculpture (no date). Th e m o s t s i gn i f i c a nt c h a n g e i n a r t t h at o cc u r re d i n t h e R e n a i s s a n ce was the new emphasis on glorifying the human figure. sculpted figures began to look more lifelike The History of Sculpture (no date). To d a y , h u m a n f i g u r e g a v e w a y t o n e w s u b j e c t s : d r e a m s , i d e a s , emotions.
RESEARCH ON RELATED ILLUSTRATION WORKS Most posters were placed on the back wall, so, many c o m m u t e r s t e n d t o i g n o re t h e m . M e a nw h i l e, c o m p a re d to a poster, a short film seems catch more eyes.
OBSVERATIONAL SKETCH
Tutor suggested to find a communication method in my design, because this work was so abstrac t in the beginning, which easily make people confused. I t is possible to redesign a carriage with these pattern and hue to convey my concept. I realised that more message should to be delivered though my design rather than much attention on the pattern and colour testing in the beginning. Thus, I started to concentrate on more communication with my audience. And I tried to design a cold space to affect people’s sense.
A coach with cold huetone, it might give people a sense of freezing ambience, where people stay for a while might huddle. According to the previous research, I found that people tend to pay more attention on the video than posters, which inspired me to create my animation.
INITIAL STORYBOARD FOR ANIMATION
CRITIC & FEEDBACK
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQMs-fWPD14
I t r i e d t o c o l l e c t a l l fe e d b a c k my t u t o r s a n d p e e r s g ave m e. M o s t o f t h e y s u g g e s t e d m e t o p o r t r ay my d re a m carriage to visualise my idea. More importantly, my peers advised me to refine my video and redesign my animation characters, which could make my video more vivid. Thus, I decided to redrawed my stor yboard including characters, scenes, and por tray my idea by concept illustrations named freezing your legs.
Reference
DRAFT & FINAL CONCEPT ILLUSTRATION
KEYFRAME DRAWING
DESIGNING PROCESS Af ter I have done the major drawing wor ks in clip studio paint and painting squential images in Tvpaint, I detailed the images in After Effect & Premiere like lighting and arranging music for the video.
MY THINKING & FINAL OUTCOME
OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING(pencil, ink, gouache, watercolour)
After I done the my illustrations, I strated to consider about how I applied my design for communicating with other commuters more effectively , therefore, I have kept observing the daily commuters and carridge environment. After that, a bunch of youny commuers who usually hold coffee cups caught my attention in the carriage. According to my previous research where my target group are these youth, which motivated me to design for them and communicate about underground courtesy.
Daily life
Please copy this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VYrMSawSw 30s 1920*1080p
Self-portrait
Cold Hue
Warm Hue