Illustration and Visual Narrative - Assignment 2 - Digital Triptych

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Week 10 - Week 11
2023.11.03 - 2023.12.08

Qistina Nuralya Maria Binti Azly / 0354180

Illustration & Visual Narrative / Bachelors of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Assignment 2: Digital Triptych

Table of Contents

1. CLASSES

1.1 Week 10

1.1 Week 11

2. PROGRESS WORK FOR DIGITAL TRIPTYCH

3. FINAL OUTCOME

4. REFLECTION

1. CLASSES

1.1 Week 10

Lecture: We had an in-person meeting with Sir the day before our class to show our progress. During the day of the class itself, we learnt more about Triptychs and Scott McCloud's transitions types; said types being:
  • Moment-to-Moment : depict the execution of basic motions.
  • Action-to-Action : depict a single subject moving through a certain motion.
  • Subject-to-Subject : maintains focus on a single scene or concept and demands extra reading from the reader.
  • Scene-to-Scene : occur over significant distances in both space and time.
  • Aspect-to-Aspect : depicts various elements happening in the same scene at the same time.
  • Non-Sequitur : has no logical connection between panels.
For this assignment, we'd pick between these transition types (excluding Non-Sequitur) to create our Triptych.

Fig 1.1.1 Scott McCloud's transitions.

Tutorial & Practical: Feedback session.

1.2 Week 11

Lecture: Feedback session.

Tutorial & Practical: Feedback session.


2. PROGRESS WORK ON THE DIGITAL TRIPTYCH

2.1 Research

Researching more about triptych, I gathered some Triptych's that I found to be interesting:

Fig 2.1.1 The Fullbright Triptych by Simmon Dinnerstein.

Nad Now made an excellent article analysing and explaining the details of this triptych. Go check out the article here!

Fig 2.1.2 The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.

This famous triptych depicts the creation, living and death of life on Earth. Using tiny details within the Frames, Hieronymus Bosch managed to tell an impactful story using only three panels. 
After gathering enough research on triptychs and transitions, I created a concept board:

Fig 2.1.3 Digital Triptych Concept Board.

2.2 Ideation

I decided to go with this Sketch out of the three I made:

Fig 2.2.1 Digital Triptych Process #1

Getting feedback from Sir Hafiz, he said that this composition is good and that I just have to clean up the shapes and all that.

Fig 2.2.2 Digital Triptych Process #2

I started blocking out the shapes in procreate, making using each part (ear, hair etc.) was it's own so I could easily edit each in the later stages. I blocked them out in Illustrator on my iPad since I was more comfortable drawing out shapes there.

Fig 2.2.3 Digital Triptych Process #3

Next, I cleaned up the mess so that the elements would stay inside the panel by making a clipping mask layer.

Fig 2.2.4 Digital Triptych Process #4

I added the grain texture onto Kuchisake Onna in the top panel and tried making it like her face was in the shadow slightly.

Fig 2.2.5 Digital Triptych Process #5

Next, I added the grain texture to the little girl and added the scissor shadow onto her as a separate low opacity layer.

Fig 2.2.6 Digital Triptych Process #6

Lastly, I added the panel borders and completed the triptych! γƒΎ( ˃α΄—˂ )◞ • *✰

Panel Explanation:

Fig 2.2.7 Panel Explanation #1

1st Panel: Close-up of Kuchisake Onna about to take off her mask. This is first because it’s a supporting panel to when she has her mask off in the 2nd panel (Climax).


2nd Panel: Kuchisake Onna with her mask off, asking “Am I Beautiful?” to the little girl. This is the climax because it’s the decisive point where either the girl is killed/disfigured or she’s able to survive depending on her answer to the question.


3rd Panel: Close-up of the little girl, scared and sweating as Kuchisake Onna’s scissor’s shadow looms over her face. This panel is the follow-up to the 2nd as it shows Kuchisake Onna taking out her scissors, ready to kill the little girl when she answers. I left it ambiguous for more suspense as to what will happen to the girl.

3. FINAL OUTCOME

Fig 3.1. Digital Triptych Final

4. REFLECTION

Having this assignment be connected to our previous one definitely helped quite a bit as we already had a detailed idea of our urban legend so only having to do the before and after of our decisive moment wasn't that challenging I'd say. The only part I slightly struggled with was finding out the type of transition my sketches were since I didn't properly consider it during that process. Fortunately though, I had a small feedback session with a few other classmates where we checked each other's progress and they helped me figure out that my sketches were more to Subject-to-Subject. So yay to cool classmates ( ᐛ )δΊΊ( ᐛ ) ! 

I plan on being an animator/storyboarder in the future so this triptych assignment definitely helped me to understand the importance of transitional flow between frames/panels and how to properly convey the story :D
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