Visual Language: Set, Series, Sequence Part 3

For the final part of this project, I had to create a series of 12 images that told a narrative of my 8 images. Obviously my narrative was going to be based on dragonflies. At first I was thinking "well done Emma, give yourself the hardest bug to focus on out of what you've drawn", and I didn't actually have any ideas whatsoever. GREAT! So I brainstormed, as usual, and realised that dragonflies actually don't appear to do much of anything, they just fly around. It's quite boring actually.

I finally hit a good one though, and it originated from the inspiration I gained from I book I had previously read, Phillip Pullman's, His Dark Materials Trilogy, better known as The Northern Lights. In this trilogy dragon flies are used as creatures of transport for otherworldly warriors. So that gave me the idea to have a narrative based on dragonflies being used as a form of transport.

Based on my developmental images I decided to add colour, as I felt that most of my coloured image was successful. I decided to create simple line drawings using fine liners, as I felt that this was the clearest of all my development images and this would make the drawings of my storyboard clear too and I felt that the colour helped to communicate the story a little better.

Overall, I have really enjoyed this project, as it has given me the chance to improve my quick response skills, which were lacking greatly apparently. I've also really enjoyed experimenting with different media, as I haven't done this for far too long and it has made me realise that I should keep up with experimentation regardless of how terrified I am of it going wrong.