Grayscale Backgrounds

So the process starts from here.

Rough Frames

So according to the story, I decided my characters. I have described them in my last blog. So this week, we digitally rendered those characters on Photoshop. It is necessary that the character you have made should have the feel of your story.

We were introduced to our new project. We have to make a zine, so we decided a story and characters for it. Here is the rough plot.
characters:- mom, daughter
Mom:- thin, tall, weak, vertically stretched face,
daughter:- 6yrs girl, round face, cute and cheerful

Concept Story:-
A girl enters the house smiling and shouting, “mom, I am home” but nobody shows up. After some time, she finds her mom in the bedroom( dark, lights off, sitting on the floor ). After seeing her daughter, the mother hugs her daughter with happiness. Then they play and do their daily work together. At the end of the day, the mother makes her daughter sleep. Suddenly the lights get off and night lamp light turns up and mom disappears( girl with the album of her and her mother).
next morning,
the gate of the room opens, mom comes in ( the room is clean with only an album on the bed)

We made our final model, compiling all the senses into a 3D model. So the model should represent the Dadar Flower Market. So Flower market has the smell as it’s primary sense. So we used its abstract as the structure of our model. Then all the senses were in the order as they are present in our body sound at the first, then taste and then touch. The sparkling colors were showing its contrast to that how brightness and darkness were together and how color and monochrome-ness due to same filament bulb were there. And the sand cluster at the top is representing the sound which is showing the low to high volume of the sound, overall chaotic but has so many sharp sounds as the granules of sand.

In week 13, all the group members combined their abstracts into one. At last, they all were representing the same market. It was tough because we thought about what should be the position of each sense so that it can show the priorities or at least should have some meaning. So we made a rough paper mockup to have an idea that how we can arrange the senses

So week 12 was about selecting any sound of the market which you think can describe it and make a 2d abstract representation of it. So I have selected the chanting of the vendor and worked on it. So the sound was sharp. They were shouting from low to high. The curve of the volume was smooth. The overall sound of the market was chaotic when I observed from outside. But when I went inside, there were too many sounds. So I chose to make a wavy abstract, and also we selected the material which we are going to use for the abstract. I selected sand to represent the sound of the market.

So week 11 task was to make a sensory map of the market we visited, it was a tough and tricky task for us, we have to represent the market with the help of senses. So my sense is sound. So we visited the market and observed different senses. As it is a group project, everybody in our group is having different senses to observe. So I observed different types of sounds over there. Mainly, there was the sound of the chanting of the vendors, and other sounds over there were of crates, sellers, the sound of vessels form canteen. So it tested and increased our power of observation by observing a single sound, no matter what whether it’s a sound of the polythene or the shouting of the vendors. They all were important.

So we started with our project 2, were told about different views and perspectives. I think how our eyes perceive things and how the mind processes them are important for our observational skills. When the object is too near, we can’t see perspective views sometimes with our naked eyes. So then our imagination works as a tool for it, so we were told to make perspective views that we can’t see in our daily life, like ant view, bird view and fisheye view of the given marketplace that was Dadar Flower Market. So these are some views that human can imagine only, other than using technology. But we have to draw them by just observing the normal scene and then nurturing it in a different form. It was challenging for us to sketch in such a crowded place but the people over there were helpful, so they provided us with someplace to sit and sketch. All over it was a great experience to sketch when we were not in our comfort zone at all.

Fish Eye View

Bird’s Eye View