These are the early character designs for rigby from Regular show.
This was made for an animation that never got made. i love the sense of movement it creates and wish it had been made.
some of the early character designs for Andy in toy story three. They put great work into ageing him and focusing on some expressions.
This is some character design for Adventure time. These are just background characters so the focus was to do as many and as weird as possible, I think they captured that perfectly.
The character design for the angler fish from Finding Nemo. The reason I like this so much is because they didn't just do scary, ones they also had a little fun and drew it with the bulb going out.
Links
http://jonklassen.tumblr.com/page/6
http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/exclusive-concept-art-from-toy-story-3-part-2/
http://skronked.blogspot.ca/
http://cartergoodrich.com/#/character-design/finding-nemo/nemo-BulbBurnout-432
Narrative
I don't think that narrative is limited to text and sequential panels Journey, the book that the above image is from, really proves that. It is a wordless picture book with a story and beautiful illustrations.
While this does have the text to give it a story I think that its the composition and the light to darkness that gives its sense of narrative.
I chose this one as I think that its strong enough by itself to tell you what's going on.
As much as I feel that narrative isn't limited to sequential images, I do really love comics and I think this is a beautiful example of one of my favourites. Its nature really shows the speed and the movement of the animal army avalanche.
This one probably does work better with the accompanying text but its so detailed and visually engaging that I believe you could still find the story with just the illustration.
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Tales from moomin valley
Audience specific
This is aimed at children which you can easily guess based on the subject matter, bright colours and simple way of drawing.
You can also easily tell this is aimed at children because of the use of child style drawings and again the bright colours and simple style.
This is aimed at an older audience which you can tell from the slower pacing and the way they casually bring up a dead frog.
You can tell this is for children because of the colouring and the text size. you can also tell this was designed with younger children in mind if you know Chris Riddell's other illustrations, he will often draw harsher lines and much more of them. This creates a much more detailed drawing but the simplification works well for younger children and gives it a warmer feel.
This illustrators work is mainly aimed at women. which you tell by the gentle colouring and the amount of women in her work.
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Colour
I really think that this has a great use of colour, particularly as it is a screen print of three. The colours go really well together and the overlap just makes it look more like a tree.
I liked this for much of the same reason as the one above and I think that fewer colours can often be more powerful.
I love the colour in this, I think they're really strong and the blue of the water goes really well with the orange and red of the clothes.
I Think that colour can give much more of an impact if it is the only colour on a black and white page.
For this I really Feel that it is the colour that makes the dragon seem much gentler.
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simplicity
In this one the simplicity of the drawing really quickly gets the idea across.
While in this one it gives more of a sense of intrigue and leaves you wanting to study it further as well as to read anything that may be connected to it.
The boldness of the black in this is a really simple effect that really quickly gets the concept. in addition to the thin lines and the solid white, it also gives a feeling of unease.
I love this because of how simple it is, the fact of how it's basically the same thing repeated except for once has a really powerful effect.
I also love this one because of its simple repetition.
