The Final image illustration of the Chair Story

    Design Assignment 1, Personality Personification of a man-made object. My story is about "The cycle of life from the perspective of a chair." This is the scene I chose to illustrate in greater detail: The senior couple living happily together in their home, watching TV still utilizing the man's childhood chairs that his father made. 3 artworks. 2 digital collages.

The rough draft

Storyboarding, The Story of a Chair

    Design Assignment 1, Personality Personification of a man-made object. I chose to draw a chair. The cycle of life from the perspective of a chair. The storyboard has 20 thumbnails. 5 strips.

    I wanted to create a cute love story. And this is what materialized.

Here's a quick summary of the story beginning with the first row: The chair is being made in a workshop by a man who then brings it home to another chair.

Second row: The chairs like each other. The man's family consist of a young child who grows into a man.

Row three and four: The son who is now a man, falls in love with a woman. They sit and live their lives by utilizing the chairs who are also in love with one another. Time goes by and the adults become senior citizens, then the old lady passes away. The lady's chair eventually breaks too and is used as fodder for a fire. The other chair is sad, and daydreams about past memories.

Final row: Eventually the old man passes away and relatives drive the furniture, possessions, and chair to a consignment store that sells furniture. The old man's chair is surrounded by new chairs and furniture. Eventually someone buys the chair and it is recycled to a new home. Life continues.

The last drawing page is a detailed rough draft that highlights moments that could be in the story.

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I made a website from scratch with Html

    This month I learned basic website coding skills. I made a functional website with Html and CSS code. My teacher navigated me to the right online tutorials and information. The Html textbook I am currently reading is very helpful too but it takes a while to peruse through everything. This was not my first time dabbling with Html. Back when the Myspace website was popular, I often changed my Myspace layout with Html. I have always wanted to build a website to host comic book pages that I created from my imagination. This month presented that opportunity and that's what I did. I had a special dream a long time ago, of my father and I walking in a field. For some reason, I am very young in the dream. A child. Something very random happens in that field.

        I wanted to draw and build the entire story in a comic book format, and I started it, but I soon found out that refining every panel would take a long time. So I decided to make 3 pages and to have a "To be continued..." panel at the end of the image page. The 3 pages I created are the very beginning of the dream story. They are rough drafts, collages of what will be refined in the future. I have to smooth out the sceneries and redraw every line in smooth, thick, black lines. The characters need to be shaded etc. I do plan on finishing the comic book style story next year so I won't explain the entire story. You should all check back for the continuation. 😉

    Building the website with Html and CSS was extremely fun. As of this moment, the teacher wants me to build a CSS parent/master page that controls the other Html pages of the website. I am following tutorials and learning as I grow in knowledge and practice. I have a friend that volunteered to host my website. You can view it here. Click. It is pretty much complete. Some people think the "title image" should be centered but I like it on the left side of the website. I am very proud of how easy it is to flip the pages with the "Previous and Next" buttons. There is also a "Select Pages" drop down menu that helps to find a specific page. I got this idea from the free read a certain manga websites you can find online when you Google a specific manga book title. The "Contact Me" page is also pretty easy to use. The icons indicate how to get ahold of me and leads you to my social networking pages if you click on their images.

The foundation of the site

The Home Page completed

First Page and Drop down menu

Contact Me icons page