Illustration & Visual Narrative: Project 3
2/6/23-30/6/23 / Week 9-13
Mercy Chong HuiZiun / 0360929
Illustration & Visual Narrative / BDCM
Task 3: Digital Triptych
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Lists
Lectures
Instructions
Story research
Ideation sketches
Digitization
Final Digital Triptych
Reflections
Lectures
W9: Light & Shadow
Chiaroscuro exercise (1)
This pear image was used for this exercise.
This pear image was used for this exercise.
Fig 1.0 Pear image
Firstly, use the pen tool and trace the outlines of the pear shape>
Curvature pen tool to make the lines round following the shape of a
pear.
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Fig 1.1 Chiaroscuro exercise
> Trace the shadow outlines inside the pear shape and then adding two
different shades of green. The shadow of the pear is the darker side of
the green as shown below.
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Fig 1.2 Chiaroscuro Exercise (with shadow)
Chiaroscuro Exercise (2)
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Fig 1.3 Chiaroscuro exercise
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Fig 1.4 Light & Shadow exercises (skull)
W10 - Ornaments
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Instructions
Fig 2.0 Module information booklet (IVN)
Project 3: Digital Triptych
Story Research
> Picking one story from this website for the start of our digital triptych
project.
All of the stories here were written by the same author, Edgar Allan
Poe.
The story that I have chosen is "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
(1841).
> Now onto breaking down the story into the 3 Acts Structure to have a
clearer vision of how we will illustrate the plots.
3 Acts Structure
- Setup
- Conflict
- Resolution
Fig 3.1 3 Acts Structure to apply in a story
Act 1- Setup
The story revolves around a gruesome double murder that takes place in the Rue Morgue, a street in Paris. The victims are Madame L'Espanaye, an elderly woman, and her daughter, Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye. The crime scene is puzzling, with no apparent motive, locked doors, and bizarre evidence. As the local police struggle to solve the baffling case, Dupin steps in to investigate and unravels the enigmatic secrets behind the murders.
The story revolves around a gruesome double murder that takes place in the Rue Morgue, a street in Paris. The victims are Madame L'Espanaye, an elderly woman, and her daughter, Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye. The crime scene is puzzling, with no apparent motive, locked doors, and bizarre evidence. As the local police struggle to solve the baffling case, Dupin steps in to investigate and unravels the enigmatic secrets behind the murders.
Act 2- Conflict
> After careful investigation and analysis of the crime scene, Dupin deduces that the murders were committed by an escaped orangutan.
> After careful investigation and analysis of the crime scene, Dupin deduces that the murders were committed by an escaped orangutan.
Dupin's deduction is based on several key observations and pieces of evidence. To confirm his theory, Dupin brings the narrator to a menagerie where an escaped orangutan is being kept. The animal's aggressive behavior and ability to mimic the actions necessary to carry out the murders provide further evidence supporting Dupin's deduction.
The climax is reached when Dupin presents his findings and explains his reasoning to the narrator, revealing the true identity of the murderer.
Act 3- Resolution
> The true identity of the murderer is unveiled, and the mystery of the Rue
Morgue murders is solved. The story ends with Dupin's triumph and the
resolution of the perplexing crime, leaving the reader in awe of his
deductive prowess.
Ideation sketches
> According to the 3 Acts Structure above, I then started to brainstorm
my ideas by sketching them out beforehand.
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Fig 3.2 Ideation sketch on the three-acts structure of the story
Fig 3.3 First Act of Digital Triptych, showing the aftermath of the crime
scene
Fig 3.4 Second Act Structure
> Illustrating the main character/protagonist of this story which is
C.Augustine Dupin, a detective on solving this murder crime.
For the third act structure, I was struggling on how to execute the
Orang-Utan well but I used the vormator challenge technique that I have
learned back in exercises to illustrate it.
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Fig 3.5 Orang-Utan using vormator method
Fig 3.6 The wireframe of all 3-Acts Structures together
Final Digital Triptych outcome
Fig 4.1 Final Digital Triptych
Reflections
> Throughout this project, I tried to make good use of the pen tool
and create some shapes on this project. Initially, I wanted to have a
more horror/gore theme but I'm afraid I couldn't execute it well so I
stick onto a more crime-solving themed and I was overall satisfied with
how it has turned out in the end.
