Commedia dell'arte

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Comic Strip Evaluation

The first thing I had to think about for this task was my character design and I initially had the idea of creating frankenstein like animal characters, however, upon checking the brief again, I realised that I had to use inanimate objects and so had to re-think my original idea.

I decided to use a particular type of room for this story, which affected the type of characters I would have in it.  As I decided to have this story based in a meeting room, it seemed appropriate that the characters would be items of stationery, and a coffee cup was also included symbolized alienation as it was quite different to the rest of the items portrayed in the story.

Once I decided what my characters were going to be, I looked at different styles of story telling through pictures and had a look at Axel Scheffler the illustrator for the Gruffalo books> I also am a big fan of Quentin Blake who did all of the illustrations for the Roald Dahl books.  Another source of inspiration I referred to was Mark Crilley as I am a fan of his manga story books with thte facial expressions and comic layouts.  I also liked the colour palette, which was used in the original illustration of the Winnie the Pooh books.