In the second week into the module of visual exploration 2 character narrative, we continued to develop our historical character research through a collaborative task and experimented with rubber stamping. During the historical character research task, we each created a large "spider diagram" of a handful of facts we had accumulated during this last week of research to present to the rest of the group. Then, to collaborate we each read everyone's research thus far and were able to add any knowledge we'd known ourselves in either/both notes and illustration. As shown, below this was my sheet which had some additional facts/illustrations from members of the group. This task notably broadened my ideas for my continuation of my research and helped me in beginning to include concept illustrations alongside my character research development.
Later into this session we began our exploration into character design through the medium of rubber stamping. These characters were defined by three sections; head, torso and legs. This encourages us to think about how the design and characteristics of our character would work within the space of the stamp and how we could use line and shape to communicate this. In this exercise we utilized tools such as a set of three rubbers, a lino cutter, ink pens and sketchbooks to develop our character designs and trial printing our designs. I found this task challenging as it was a small surface to carve and I initially struggled to create a design that worked well within the space. If I was to do this exercise again, I would like to develop my character designs, experiment with different perspectives and trial different printing inks such as printing ink and stamping ink.
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| Notes/mini illustrations on two characters research and additional notes/mini illustration from other students |
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| Ideas sketches and cut stamp character idea |
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| Printed stamp character test |
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