Gothic+Horror

= Book Illustration = As an artist, it is important to challenge yourself and your creative ideas in order to grow. Without challenge, you will stagnate and your work may become stale. By limiting your color palette, your skills as an artist will be pushed to compensate for what is missing, encouraging new ideas and explorations as an artist and problem-solver. Also, by accepting creative limitations, you are allowed more time and energy to focus on other illustrative concerns that are often times more important than what was given up in the first place.

In this project, students will work together to create black & white book illustrations for a book of Gothic Horror Stories. As the illustrator, your focus will be on creating a work of art based on a story section chosen by you, with the text included within the picture plane.

By only using black and white, your focus will be on value, line quality, texture and composition to capture the stories atmosphere.

Your mission as an illustrator is to use key elements from the text, along with your own unique vision and voice, to create a drawing that grabs a viewers attention and drags them kicking and screaming into the story!

Project Book Illustration: Gothic Horror Stories
Gothic horror stories began in the late 1700’s and continue to the present day. Writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley have created characters like Frankenstein, Dracula and The Raven that has forever changed how scary stories are told. Gothic stories rely more on the disturbing power of the unknown, and the deeply psychological terror that lies within us! The following is a list of the stories (or sections) that we will be reading in class; 
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 * The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Poe[[image:whsdigill/images.jpg align="right" caption="images.jpg"]]
 * The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
 * Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
 * Dracula by Bram Stoker
 * Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
 * The Other by H.P. Lovecraft
 * Pickman’s Model by H.P. Lovecraft
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 25.35px;">Format:
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">Download the following pages:

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">In Photoshop, go to File>Open and choose the page to open.
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 * [[file:whsdigill/Gothic Pages16-17.pdf|Download]]
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">8.5 x 11 sheet with 7 x 9.75 image area <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">300 dpi / RGB <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">(Only use Black, White & Gray – no color!)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">Spanish Version: <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 25.35px;">Objective:
// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">Students will learn; //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">How to create an illustration within a pre-designed format
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">Creating a black & white illustration
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">Using different file formats for printing
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">Working with a group to create an illustrated book

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 25.35px;">Process
> > > > > > > == == > <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">Create three thumbnail sketches for the designed page. > == == > > > ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 25.35px;"> ==
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">Read and discuss each story in class. Write down at least 3 stories that interest you in come way.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">Research the story. Using the internet, do research on what the story is all about. Try to get into the mind of the writer to help you make visuals from the word.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">Sign the contract! Choose one page to create an illustration that you will be responsible for.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">Thumbnails:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">Final Sketch: Draw a final detailed sketch in your sketchbook or directly into Photoshop for the page you plan to illustrate. Download the book pages to make sure you are in the correct format!
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19.5px;">Digitally paint in the values.