ILLUSTRATION HATES ME

Jidlo (Food) 1992 Svankmajer

This sector of Debords theory highlights that capitalisms economic expansion is only able to thrive off the individuals dedication to thrive off the individuals dedication to the spectacle. The spectacle is used as a tool to distract us against the atrocities capitalism endorses.

ORIGINAL Book Cover for the green mile

Examples of book cover illustrations that gave me inspiration from my personal collection.

I have started using found images to depict the events of the story, reflecting on the past work we have done with editing images in sequences and making connections evident within the story.

In response to the Abrose Bierce text I have started using paint as a possible medium for my exploitive animatic, here is an example of some of the possible frames. I however have found this process to be quite time consuming, as a result I may attempt to use digital drawing as I believe this process to be more efficient.

Some drawings of my exploration of the Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge text.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek bridge is a short story by civil war veteran Abrose Pierce that explores themes about war, time and death. I have been investigating the contents of the story and creating visual responses as a result.

Sequential image activity

EVERYDAY CONNECTIONS

An extract from The Parallax View shows a group of images and text combined to reveal a code and suggest ideas. In this context it is used to brainwash a subject but the concept is quite interesting as the images often occur multiple times, it is also important to note the order in which the images are arranged and how they have different meanings depending on this said arrangement.

Multi Piece Puzzles: Sequential, fluid and multidimensional codes

Botanic Illustration such at this drawing of a mandrake root made in the 1400′s are example of the use of symbols that were understood and used to depict an idea.

Visual literacy is deemed to be at the core of all types of literacy, a language that can be understood by the masses. Scientific illustration is used to explain scientific ideas, it uses symbols to inform existing knowledge. Medical illustrations proceeding the Scientific Revolution held authority due to well executed imagery holding reliability. Da Vinci’s anatomic work is an example of such work that uses informed knowledge to inform his drawings.