I enjoyed COP that much that I want to recreate the project again :)...Joke! i did enjoy the practical very much. i feel that the research and the response to that is what made my project enjoyable and successful. illustrating war stories into a comic book format was great i feel it showed me my strengths of story telling....even though i got a great grade and a great feed back from my advisor i felt the pages that was created was really week, the images wasn't strong, wasn't strong as i know I can create. The reason was that i was so hung up on the research and the style that i had left my self no time to make the final pages great. Taking all that in to consideration and realising that working from primary research, first hand experience Is what i do best and the feed back from my tutor backs that up. it says that I should conceder this for future projects.
This time around will be the same research tactics...interviews, on site research nut what i will do differently is manage my time so that i can actually create full pages with nice quality work.
So i know what i wanted to, I wanted to work with my strengths and create a publication from research but I was at a loss of what to research.there was no visual evidence of my planning, it all happened in my head so theres no documentation of mind maps and what have you...sorry.
Like most my projects i mention i'm a huge movie fan, thats where i want one side of my profession to exists (concept artist in tv and film...the other side is to publish my own comics and to be a successful comic artist) So when watching some scary film I was entertained and questioned how people say they have seen shit like this (ghosts and demons) even though I am skeptic to the after life and the paranormal, listening to the stories that people say about the hauntings they have experienced still entertains me in the same way a film does, it gets my creative mind going. I never say I dont believe the stories because i think thats just rude, and who am i to say that they are lying because i dont know that!...it entertained me and creeped me out and thats good entertainment and thats good enough for me. so this lead me to an idea of visually documenting peoples hauntings and experiences. but because thats a pretty wide range I decided to keep the research local and ask people in the Leeds area. so like i always do i jumped the gun and started playing around wit a title and it lead me to 'Leeds haunted' I then wanted to make a publication not only of peoples stories in there homes or what have you but of actual locations in Leeds such as scary old pubs or the abbey even. a combination of famous locations and the publics encounters made for a good book. but i dont want it just to be all pictures... My plan is to create a publication that looks at locations of Leeds. with each location there will be illustrations of that along with text, statements of peoples paranormal experiences at this location. in the publication will also be stories told in the comic format to better tell the stories. This publication will be for entertainment it wont be a statement that says YES Leeds is haunted but just some entertaining stories for fans of comics and creepy tails.
I started this project by looking at horror comics and illustrators to be inspired and influenced and just to get a idea to see if this can actually be done comic wise...if the pros dont execute a creepy story through image then i wont be able to.
This time around will be the same research tactics...interviews, on site research nut what i will do differently is manage my time so that i can actually create full pages with nice quality work.
So i know what i wanted to, I wanted to work with my strengths and create a publication from research but I was at a loss of what to research.there was no visual evidence of my planning, it all happened in my head so theres no documentation of mind maps and what have you...sorry.
Like most my projects i mention i'm a huge movie fan, thats where i want one side of my profession to exists (concept artist in tv and film...the other side is to publish my own comics and to be a successful comic artist) So when watching some scary film I was entertained and questioned how people say they have seen shit like this (ghosts and demons) even though I am skeptic to the after life and the paranormal, listening to the stories that people say about the hauntings they have experienced still entertains me in the same way a film does, it gets my creative mind going. I never say I dont believe the stories because i think thats just rude, and who am i to say that they are lying because i dont know that!...it entertained me and creeped me out and thats good entertainment and thats good enough for me. so this lead me to an idea of visually documenting peoples hauntings and experiences. but because thats a pretty wide range I decided to keep the research local and ask people in the Leeds area. so like i always do i jumped the gun and started playing around wit a title and it lead me to 'Leeds haunted' I then wanted to make a publication not only of peoples stories in there homes or what have you but of actual locations in Leeds such as scary old pubs or the abbey even. a combination of famous locations and the publics encounters made for a good book. but i dont want it just to be all pictures... My plan is to create a publication that looks at locations of Leeds. with each location there will be illustrations of that along with text, statements of peoples paranormal experiences at this location. in the publication will also be stories told in the comic format to better tell the stories. This publication will be for entertainment it wont be a statement that says YES Leeds is haunted but just some entertaining stories for fans of comics and creepy tails.
I started this project by looking at horror comics and illustrators to be inspired and influenced and just to get a idea to see if this can actually be done comic wise...if the pros dont execute a creepy story through image then i wont be able to.
Researching Leeds and its most haunted places. To my surprise the Leeds Beckit university has the most encounters and stories that I found. To look at this issue file you would think that this research took my the best of 3 days. hours of reading, and filtering the dud stories from the good ones, watching hours of video documenters about Leeds history and haunting.
The research was so inspiring i felt that with the information and the contacts i gained through my research allowed me to create a stunning entertaining publication.
The research was so inspiring i felt that with the information and the contacts i gained through my research allowed me to create a stunning entertaining publication.
I created this poster to invite people to share their stories with me. I tried to express that feeling of someone is in your room and that creepy sensation of not wanting to turn around. This must have happened to everyone in their life at some point so everyone can relate. Having some connection might trigger stories of pursued the viewer to share their stories.
(LEFT social media RIGHT poster)
I put the poster on social media accounts, Facebook and Instagram with a message asking for stories.
From my research i gathered i found the most haunted locations of Leeds:
The Abbey, Thackray medical museum, Temple Newsom, Armly prison, Town hall, Music house theatre, the becket university and other streets and parks. I sent out emails to all these locations explaining what i am planing to create and asking for any statements from staff or any other connections to the location. Just awaiting a respons...i will document the response through the development of this project. because i have taken on a rather big task i have decided to create as i research...meaning i research one location and create one location at a time so that i'm not waiting for all the replies.
I have had some feed back from the posters ad from the word of mouth. I have 2 stories from students from leeds college of art, and through word of mouth I have planned a visit to a pub that my peer works at and she has told me there is a chance she can get me access to the haunted going ons above in the run down hotel. she tells me that other staff have stories and locals share stories of encounters in the local pub. she may also get me a contact of someone who works in the town hall that is on my list of most haunted Leeds list.
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