The earliest known comic book was the Adventure of Obadiah Oldbuck which was published in Europe in 1837.
https://www.illustrationhistory.org/genres/comics-comic-books
The Golden Age
1938-1956
It began with the debut of Superman in action comics, and when Batman started in Detective comics almost a year later. October 1939 Marvel comics released Marvel comic* 1. Through 1938-1940s was the years when comic book stayed to Gai there popularity.
The Dark Age
1985-1996
To commemorate DC comic 50th Anniversary they published Crisis on Infinite Planets as a 12 issue comic book event. From the mid 80s Anti heroes became extremely popular people enjoyed dark pessimistic stories, so Alan Moore wrote the watchmen which was set in a world where every one looked down on superheroes. The dark ages ends with a sales slump, this sale slumps also contribituted to the bankruptcy of Marvel comics.
The Modern Age
1996-Present
Alex Ross published Kingdom come which helped to bring the optimism and strength of the olden days of comics. Comic companies strived to fix there mistakes and put more effect into fewer projects . The adaptation into digital comics, movies and television has help the popularity of comic grow.
Inspiration and Research for the project
The project idea was created by combining to different sets of characters and making world and story to go around them. From there we looked at things relating to the project that we wanted to create for our inspiration, since we planned to created a motion comic we looked a other comics that we enjoyed and related to our story.
The art style was inspired from many different comics that I grow up reading such as:
- The Amazing Spiderman ( Marvel)
- Lalins Curse ( Webtoon )
- Lumine ( Emma Krogell )
- X- Men ( Marvel)
The style used in the Marvel comics and other classic comics use a very bold line art which I liked the style of. The background design and colour I love in Lalins Curse, as the backgrounds are so detailed and yet so simple. But many of the characters styles were inspired by TV shows that I grow up with, giving the characters larger more expressive eyes was inspired by many animated shows such as:- Star vs the forces of evil ( Disney )
- Amphibia ( Disney )
- Milo Murphy's law ( Disney )
All these shows have characters with very expressive faces and large eyes, I love that style as it gives me more opportunities to draw more emotions in my characters.
My two characters were inspired from:
- Lalins Curse
- Danny Phantom
The main character of Lalins curse, David, has a very frighted personality which I wanted to mirror in my main character. I love creating characters with a lot of flaws so as the story progress they do to, So I made my character Quinn who is a very socially awkward person that doesn't enjoy being around other people, but is soon thrown into Abnormal world that might help him be more confident.
My other character, Violet was inspired by a character from Danny Phantom, Sam, who is a very confident and out going person who is a goth, I thought this out going personality would perfectly contrast Quinn quiet nature ( and I also made her a goth because of Sam ).
Maria characters personalities were inspired from things she grew up with:
- Wolf's Rain
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
She loves the characters from these to shows and wanted to have her character act similarly. Maria took inspiration from Wolf's Rain to create a wolf character using the style from that show, which helped her design a wolf character with more accurate features. She was inspired by a character in Buffy the Vampire slayer, Spike, whose personality is an intelligent fighter who is cocky and mean to everyone, Maria wanted to make a character similar to spike by making Axelot who is a very cold person who is mean to everyone. Maria then wanted to created a character with and opposite personality to Axelot so she created Alex, who contrasts Axelot's very cold personality with a very bubbly and friendly personality, and she really like the dynamic between these to.
Reference images
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| Page from Lalins Curse |
The art used in lalins curse is amazing the line art is simple and lets the colours are so vibrant and alive. All of the pages in the comic have an effect over the colour giving it a texture to make it look like page and not to flat and clean, I love this technique and hope to use it in my own work.
So of the backgrounds don even use linear they just have flat colours which can be very effective if don correctly, for example the leaves in the top right panel are created with many different shades and tones of the same colour, with a lighter and more pastel colour at the back and a more harsh and bolder colour at the front which has a really cool effect that I love.
I love the colours used in the sky as they are just so vibrant but also look like a real sky. There are so Manny different tones and colours used in the sky to give off a very warm effect for the sunset.
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| Wolf from Lumine |
Lumine has some very interesting character design of wolves using a very stylised and realistic style.
This character was a good reference for a wolf in a comic style as one of the characters would be a wolf, and the comic showed me a lot about wolf anatomy and I love the thin lines used in the line art.
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| Star ( Disney ) |
Star vs the Force of Evil had a style very similar to my own, characters with simple faces and large expressive eyes. This style was a good reference for my own style as a love characters and style with large eyes as it helps me give my characters more emotion and expressive faces.
I love the simpleness in the design by with elements in the design that make each character unique. Designing characters with clothes that match there personality is very important to my, and star design shows her personality also. Her dress shows that she is royalty but it is a lot more casual just like her, the star bag shows that she girly and bubbly, and her horns on her head instead of a crown show that she is rebellious.
All my characters that I design must have clothes that match there personality.
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| Spike ( Buffy Comic ) |
Maria love the character of Spike from Buffy and the Vampire slayer, she really like his personality and how he interacts with the other characters. Spike has a very rebellious and evil personality, he is fighter and loves violence and any opportunity to fight.
Maria wanted to create a character very similar to Spike, so Axelot was created. He is very rebellious and had a cold personality and rarely ares about anyone. Spikes design was also an inspiration to Maria for Axelot's clothes, Spike wheres very baggy and casual clothes and docent seem to care much about his appearance. Just like Spike, Axelot wears very baggy clothes and doesn't care much about his appearance, he wears dark denim jeans and a baggy black hoodie.
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| Amphibia Cover ( Disney ) |
Amphibia is a new upcoming Disney show, which tells the story of Anne of gets stuck in another world Populated by frog people.
I already love the style used in the show, again the characters have very large expressive eyes and the style seems different from other shows which I always a good thing.
The background design in some of the concept art looked really detailed and interesting, it shows really unique elements that help build the world of the show which is something I wish I could improve on.
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| Sam ( Danny Phantom ) |
One of the protagonists from Danny Phantom was a huge inspiration for me, I love goth fashion and had always wanted to create a character that was goth. Sam ( Danny Phantom ) she is a very bossy, passionate and strong willed person, she labels her self as a goth as an outlet for her independence and individuality.
With this in mind in wanted to create a very confident and strong willed person, who love the typical goth fashion and uses to show her interest in the strange and Abnormal. My character is Violet, she has long dark brown hair and light brown skin, she wears a long black dress with a zip and rip leggings and black boots.
The look of my character was inspired by typical goth fashion and the character of Sam of also has big black boots.
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