Self-portrait comic strips, inspired by Roy Lichtenstein.
Roy Lichtenstein. Art for the cover of the April 1966 issue of Newsweek.
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Roy Lichtenstein. Drowning Girl. 1963.
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Roy Lichtenstein was "an American pop artist best known for his boldly-colored parodies of comic strips and advertisements." His style is universally recognized, and has influenced visual culture for decades. Click here for a full bio on this renegade artist.
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To begin this project, we were told to choose an onomatopoeiaword (words such as BOOM!, POP!, etc.). This word became the basis for our project. The word had to be in a comic book style font, and had to be altered using a warp effect (mandatory) and/or a 3D effect (i.e. extrude and bevel; optional). Other effects that were used included various Distort/Transform effects (added to surrounding shapes rather than the word itself). After this was completed, a storyboard worksheet was given out to plan this project. The colors used in this project were from the Pop Art color palette that Illustrator provides; this was a specific limitation to this project.
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Another essential step in this project was the use of seamless Ben-day dot patterns and stripe patterns. A requirement of these patterns was that at least one of each be used somewhere in the project. When they were made, they were saved into the Swatches palette and were consistently used in the project. One of the most important parts of this project was taking photographs of ourselves, other people/objects, or whatever else had to be photographed. Images from the Internet were also used. All these objects were traced in Illustrator by using the pen tool, and were given fills of solid colors, dots, or stripes.
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All the objects in this project were traced using black strokes that were non-uniform; in other words, they look hand-traced. This effect was created by making our ownbrushes and using those strokes instead of the default 1pt stroke. The next step was adding speech/thought bubbles, which show talking/thinking, obviously. The dialogue, to maintain the theme of a comic book, was put in comic book font. These pictures were all inspired by the word chosen for the project. The Illustrator files were exported as JPEGs to Adobe Photoshop, where they were cropped and placed into a final template that was provided by Mrs. Throckmorton.
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This is the final project. I'm tired when I go to do homework, so I thought it was a pretty mundane situation to base my project on.