PAGES

So here are some of the pages I have produced. The story of the comic forces on Allen, the farther of a young blind girl named Lilly, and by night an IRA fighter. As he watches in fear as his houses burns, Allen recalls the event that lead to this horrible night.

Bellow are some pages that have been produced for the comic

Cover Designs

For my cover, i wanted something dramatic something that could stand out from the crowd. My idea for a lot of the scenes involving the fire, is that the fire will be bright and coloured whilst the character will be blacked out. I thought that using this contrast of the fire and the black could make for an interesting and dramatic cover.

I started making some thumbnails of my ideas. 

I picked my first thumbnail, I felt like I could do some interesting typography style cover with this idea.

I think this stands out the most, however I feel like I need to work on the Font and experiment a little bit, see if I can make the font itself look even more dramatic and exciting, bearing in mind, this has to appeal to a young adult audience.

Character Designing Part 1

So i did a few character designs for my comic, The story is set around 1920, so i looked at the fashion from those times to play with how the character could look. I blacked them out to see if they would be recognisable as silhouettes Since I am thinking of working with a lot of black figures against fire and strong light, my character needs to be recognisable. A good way to do this was to work with the hat. 

My first design gave her pig tales, but I noticed when looking at photos and fashion pictures that no one had there hair up in that fashion, but i did noticed a lot of hats and figured it would be good to work with the girl having a hat.

Looking At Pictures

Cork after it was burnt

London riots - Looked at the burning of some buildings during the London Riots as I way to picture what things could of been like during the fires.

Riots, and fire in other stories, I looked at theses for referencing, also so i can see what images work best and have a more dramatic look to them, The first set of images are from Fisheye Placebo by Yuumei on deviant art.

The next set of images are from various Batman comics.

New project! 1900s - 1920s Based Comic!

So, my latest project has been given. My fast is to produce a 12 page comic based around an event from 1900 - 1920, the events have to based in the Uk, with my target audience being a young adult.
So to begin with I started listing some events that happened within this era, I avoided the well known events such as the Titanic and World war 1, because they have been done so many times, I wanted to tell a different story, something people might not know about.
Below is a mind map i worked on to help me visually see all the events I was interested working with.

After looking into some of the events I was interested in doing the Burning of Cork, or the HMS Lolaire, i decided to do a little research on the two events to try and pick between the too, but both of them seemed like great events to work with. I decided to work on the burning of cork in the end because I felt like I could do some interesting visual image work with the images of Cork burning.

So after i decided to work with the Burning of Cork I did a little bit of research about the event.

Burning of Cork – during the irish war of independence (1919 – 1921)

Cork was one of the major centres of the conflict, many famous figures during the war came from Cork.

Notorious behavior of the black and tans marked the period

Three best remembered episodes from Cork during this period are, the burning of Cork City, death of Lord Tomas MacCurtain, and the death of Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney.

The Black and tans was a force recruited to assist the Royal Irish Constabulary, they were formed by former soliders

(RIC) The were created by Winston Churchill

The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) was Irelands armed Police force.

Auxilary was a divison of the RIC.

Irish republican army (IRA) was a group of rebels who faught the bristish forces, made up of Volunteers.

Burning of Cork

11^th December night to morining12 December 1920,

resembled a scene from the Blitz on London.

British forces deliberately set fire to several blocks of buildings along the east and south sides of Saint Patrick’s Street

City hall and the Carnegie library completely destroyed in the fire.

The loss of records stored in City hall and the library was a huge lose for future historians.

Other buildings destroyed wee Roche’s Stores, Cash & Co, The Munster Arcade, Egan’s, The American shoe company, Forrests, Sunner Chemist, and Saxone Shoes.

The Auxilliaries and the Black and Tans were Allegedly taking revenge for an earlier attack on British Troops.

The Chief Secretary of Ireland, Sir Hamar Greewood, Denited that Crown forces were responsible.

He also refused demands for Impartial enquiry which was called by several public figures in Cork.

The Irish labour party and Trades Union Congress published a booklet called “Who burnt Cork city?” in January 1921, which featured eye-witness stories to the event, claimbing british forces where responsible.

It was later proven that the fire was started by renegade members of a company of Auxiliaries.

Final Video!!

Here is my final video. Originally I wanted to have writing appear all over the walls explaining the story behind the video, However this became very difficult to do with the image constantly zoning out and fading into new images, in the end it was easier just to leave the writing out and leave it to the viewer to think of a meaning of this video.
However I had fun drawing the iderfidual images that were used to create the video. I got a lot of inspiration form mcdonalds restraints i visited, such as one in stoke. I also looked at some pictures of old abandoned buildings I had visited.

This is Huncoat power station which was a huge inspiration for my drawings. I looked at theses photos and more to determine how the restaurant would look in a decayed state. 

Shots!!

Here are some shots from my video. My idea was to zoom out of a ruined restraint that has been abandoned after McDonnell's destroyed the world.