Cartoon Final Project

For our final cartoon project I drew a comic about dinosaurs. I made the comic using water color, colored pencil, and Sharpie.

I used colored pencils to touch up the comic and add shading with the hatching and cross hatching technique. Using water colors was a challenge for me since I can't color or draw inside the lines so I used white paint frequently to cover it up outside the panels. 

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The difference between anime and manga is that anime is the cartoon show, hence the anime from animation. Manga is graphic novels/comics.

The difference between graphics novels and comic books is that a graphic novel is a longer and more complexe story condensed into one book whereas a comic book tells a story over many issues.

How are panels designed and layout in comic books, newspapers, and graphic novels? In a comic book panels can have any design/layout the artist chooses. There are often many different sizes and positions and views. Graphic novels are similar in that there are different panel sizes but there is a wider variety such as triangle or any shapes. Newspapers stick to one row of panels that usually have the same size panels.

Cartoon Bones Project

For my cartoon bones project I chose Pikachu from the show Pokemon. I traced him from a printout and colored him on a translucent paper.

The below image is a special camera effect I used which layered the bones over the original printed out picture.

Although Pikachu looks quite scary without skin and muscles, the resulting skeleton is vaguely similar to a human skeleton minus several fingers, toes, and ribs.

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My Pinterest board of comic art styles that I liked and some of which I used as references is linked.

Photoshop Project

For my photoshop project, I edited myself into this Lion King original. I also added a real moon to the background and moved the moon behind the original Lion King image. It looks pretty cool. I couldn't find the drop shadow so I have none. But it looks really authentic. Photoshop is fun.