Evaluation

For this project we were asked to create something which revolved around one of the worlds problems topic list. I decided to do mental illness. But instead of focusing on mental illness as a whole, I decided to specify on three mental illnesses in particular that seem to stand out among other mental illnesses. Which were: Depression, Anxiety and Schizophrenia. 

Then for Primary research, I did a questionnaire asking certain questions. E.g. How old the person was, what gender they are and what mental illness they have if any as well as what they do when they're upset to cheer themselves up.  This research inspired me as well as helped me chose what the characters do in the comic to make themselves happy so it can relate to my audience as much as possible and to help those who have it find ways to over come or subside their mental illness. These quantitative results gave me an insight as to what my audience feels on a daily bases and how they over come hard times in their life.  

As for Secondary research, I  looked into the main effects of each mental illness and applied it to my characters in the comic.  

When working on my pre-production, I looked at similar comics that were also based around the topic my comics were going to be based from. Though I did not manage to write about all of them, I did find and write about one that stood out to me in particular. It inspired my background characters as you can see in my rough designs. I could not find anymore comics due the links being sketchy or leading me to pages where the comic is unreadable. Example of comic and my rough design: 

When producing my work, I used an app called 'ibisPaint X' as I described in an earlier blog post. 
By using nothing more than my finger to trace over my drawing I scanned in, I was able to create three unique comics that although were drawn in different styles, they were all drawn using the same technique. By using the Air Brush and Smudge tool, creating shadows, lighting effects and overall shading was an easy task yet took a while to do. Although, it proven quicker using this app then using Photoshop as I was more familiar with the tools of this app. i chose colours that I feel represented the mood. For example, the Depression comic was colourless and grey until he found something that made him happy. The colour of the writing for all the comics complimented the colours used as well as the background so although the fonts were fancy, the colour made the wording easy to read. 
Moreover, the app did have it's problems. When drawing, due to glitches I was unable to save part of my work which I then had to re-draw twice. After that issue, I made sure I saved the image properly before closing the app. 

All three of the comics were aimed at teenagers and early adults as I feel they will find it hard to understand people with these conditions and if they have them themselves, It will hopefully get through to them that some people understand and that they're not alone.

Looking back at my comics, I made sure that none of the content was copyrighted. Everything I drawn was original content, same with the wording. None of the drawings were taken from any other artists and neither were their designs.     

As for my time management, I ended up having to rush one of the comics in order to get it done in time. But as for the evaluation, It turns out that I got all the written work out of the way at least a week in advance. With the exception of adding a few more sentences here and there.   

In conclusion, I personally thought my comics turned out well. Though if I managed my time more correctly, I could of achieved something greater. This is something I will remember for future projects as I dont wish to make the same mistakes as it caused a lot of trouble, especially seeing as drawing is very time consuming.

Peer Feedback:

over all the work is good quality, however writing is sometimes unreadable : dom 

The art work in the comics are very good and presents emotions to the highest degree, however the writing around it lets it down in the first comic as it is unreadable due to the colour balance : Elliot