Creating 6 Character - FlipBook

 I used the site called 'flipsnack' I choose a font and the headings, then I added a comic background images at the bottom to make a pattern, annd I uploaded images that I edited on Pixlr,

Then I saved my design and uploaded on my Vix website

BaliArtistry Portfolio Page

https://baliartistry.wixsite.com/baliartistry/portfolio

Concept and Comic ConceptBoard/Flipbook

 

Today I created a concept board using Photoshop for my concept and comic art project 'Creating Characters'

I began by creating a canvas, I clicked on 'File' and then 'New' in the top menu on Photoshop and then I clicked on A4.  I chose portrait orientation, and then just a grey background that just looks like a basement.

Then I added my character and a description of that character for lastly I added my logo on the right hand corner, I choose georgia font for my text because it was looking elegant.

After I finished the page of my flipbook I clicked save then I downloaded as a jpg format

I then continued this until I reach the 6 characters

This character actually called Cypher but in writing is Cipher.

I will show all these characters in a flip book.

Creating a Website: Contact Page & Social Links

 This is my contact and social links for my website first is my contact page, I want to make it simple and understandable my site name was on the left top hand corner, social links and the menu buttons are on the right top hand side corner.

The contact details are in the middle of the page and the bottom part have a button that takes you to the "HOME PAGE" when you click it. 

These are the social links that I putted on my website in the future I might be add more or deleted on the circumstances but for now they are looking nice.

I've putted my YouTube, discord, Instagram and TikTok of my channel and also the Blogger and Instagram Sketchbook that I created and uploaded every week for my School works.

 (Easter egg)

Software Practice/Costumer Profile

 

Today I am going to create a costumer profile in Photoshop as software practice and to show who my target market is.

I began by opening Photoshop and clicking on 'New File' and then a dialog box opens.  In this box I go to the top menu and clicked on 'Print' and then 'view all presets'  I then chose A4 size as I will be creating a book cover and I checked that the resolution was 300ppi so that the work would be of printable quality.  I then chose the background colour as white and then I clicked on 'create' and now have a white canvas to work on.

My next step was to go to unsplash to find a suitable image to mock up my front cover.  I found the right colourful image and downloaded this onto my desktop at a high resolution.  I then went to 'File' on the top menu and then 'open'.  I then again went to the top menu and then clicked on 'Select' and in the drop down box 'Select All' and then I went 'Edit' in the top menu and then in the drop down box 'Copy'.  Then went back to my canvas tab and clicked on 'Edit' and then 'Paste.  I then used the transform control to drag the image over the edges of the canvas to cover the page. I then clicked on the top tool (Move tool) in the left hand menu to ensure that the transform of the image stayed in position. 

Tyler Edline & Maciej Kuciara : Website Evaluation & Comparison

 In this post I will be comparing the websites of Tyler Edline and Maciej Kuciara. I will be looking at the design , layout, colour pattern, technical aspects such as ease of use, presentation of galleries and how easy to use and understand the artist.

Tylor Edline

I will start with Tyler Edline and his website. The website is well presented, at the home page he show his portfolio, full gallery of his works, his print product shop and tutorials. In the header there is a navigation that includes his Home, gallery, mentorship, tutorials, shop and contact pages. Page look is simple but clear you can find pages easily. 

On his Contact page he putted his short information and contact sheet on the bottom of the page his email attached. The biography about what works he done and giving information about himself.

Maciej Kuciara

The second website I've been looking at is Maciej Kuciara . This website gives us a short but fascinating short video show. Her works were shown at the homepage on the bottom if the homepage she gave his social media links. on top of the page Film, Art, Photography, shop, Tutorials and her about page. 

On her About page she gave information about her and her works with a fascinating background of her cosplay images, she gave Exhibitions/Shows, Clients, Ventures etc. and I think she designed her website very well and well designed, the site can attract people.

Bio of my Website

 

Bio of (Serkan) Me:

Hello, Hola, Bonjour, Merhaba, My name is Serkan Omer Bali but I mostly use my first name, I just want to make a warm hello to my bio :). I am 19 years old, I am from Turkiye (Yep, It's Turkiye not Turkey) and  I've been away from my home country almost 3,5 years, I miss there so much, I am living in Leicester, UK. I'm currently studying in DMUIC Art & Design .

 I am a Concept and Comic Art's Student and I really want to be in a Concept Character Designing and Comic writing crew in the future, I am into  drawing since my childhood, my mom actually very good at art and she inspires me to draw and make structures, that's why I'm so much into making little statues, and drawing. The series of Marvel gets me into Art, I follow artist on YouTube to understand the drawing techniques.

I'm currently working in a Charity called Dialogue Society my job is editing the special day posts, I am a "Social Media Content Specialist for Awareness Days" also you can call "Social Media Content Creator" I've been working for volunteer there for almost 3 years. Here is a short info of Dialogue Society: The Dialogue Society is a registered charity, established in London in 1999 with the aim of advancing social cohesion by connecting communities, empowering people to engage and contributing to the development of ideas on dialogue and community building. (Dialogue Society, 2023) .

I also have a YouTube Channel (Alcyone Gaming, n.d.) mostly about mobile games cause the time I started making videos I haven't got a pc, I been active during the Corona Lockdown time cause there is nothing to do and we all stuck in houses, on TikTok I make an edit videos about cars and motorcycles sometimes I edit videos that already exist with different editing for fun. I mostly play online FPS games in my free time (if I don't have more important works than that) I also play RPG games to escape the reality to discover new worlds that are more interesting and inspiring for my designs and life choices. 

The word "Future" scares me a lot because I can't even express myself at the mean time but, I want to work with a group of Comic and Concept Artist to create a comic book story and also I want to work at a big, famous game company like Riot Games, where I can design characters and environments for their games, especially the series of Arcane and also I want to make concept design for weapon skins in Valorant. 

References:

Dialogue Society (2023). About us - Dialogue Society. [online] Dialogue Society. Available at: https://www.dialoguesociety.org/about-us/ [Accessed 30 Oct. 2024].

YouTube. (n.d.). Alcyone Gaming [Tvo]. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_0lko3ZLeb84_KwuGaPsEQ [Accessed 31 Oct. 2024].

Serkan Bali Website Wix

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Creating a Website: Social Media & Contact Page

Today I created my contact page and I began by creating a new page I did this by clicking on the left hand side menu button for menu and pages.  I then clicked on 'add page' and created a new 'contact' page.  I then added added a new contact form by clicking on the left hand side menu 'Add' button and choosing 'Contact and forms'. Then I added my socials such as Instagram, Pinterest and Blogger. 

 

I added a contact page and deleted the useless pages, I added a image for the background of Contact and I used simple background for the page. 

Then I started organizing the page for Mobile, It took a long time cause all the socials, texts, and borders mixed up but I organized it all.

This is the About Page looks like after I organized the elements on the page

I then previewed and check ed that everything worked.

SMART Objective: Creating a Short Comic

 For my Concept and Comic Art project, I will design my own character, with a warrior-like personality. I will create this character from multiple angles, and also in a combat for action scene.

Nilah (n.d.). Character Design and Consistency. [online] Nilah Ate the Blog. Available at: https://www.nilahmagruder.com/blog/2020/08/02/character-design-and-consistency/.

The character gesture will be like on this example, so I want to create a women character for my project and I have few style ideas about her. I want it young between 20-24 strong, fast, clever, alone, and problems with someone in her life or her family, living in a completely different world than us, kind of a Assassin, Maybe a warrior that part is not completely visible for me, I still have issues with how to start but I am searching the data through the internet, This is just a start...

3D Character Workshop (2016). Ref Sheet Template. [online] Pinterest. Available at: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/406309197613950156/ [Accessed 30 Oct. 2024].

Milantone: Intended Research

 Today I created a milanote just explore my intended research for my Concept and Comic Arts Character Design project.

Bali, S. (2024). Home. [online] Milanote.com. Available at: https://app.milanote.com/1T1nAs1XhoruQp/home [Accessed 29 Oct. 2024].

Creating a Website: Concept & Comic Art

 Today I am writing to make my website on Wix. This is how I make the website. I began with choosing a template from the site. I found this one is attractive and will be good with my work.

I change the background picture and text, and added my name and my profession on left top corner.

I want it more simple, and choose the image from the site of Wix, the portfolio, about and the contact buttons are settled on the right top left corner

I then leave the font as it was cause I like the simplest look of it. I previewed for last check, luckily there was no problem with any text or the background.

I will continue to work on the other things on website through the term.

Major Project: Initial Ideas

I'm going to make my first Major project for Digital Media. My first idea was make character designs for the comic book that I want to create in the future.

X-MEN: X-TINCTION AGENDA OMNIBUS JIM LEE FINAL STRIKE COVER (Hardcover)

I found this image will be useful for my for my major project, I like this image because of the X-Men series. It was published at October 30, 2024. This is an 80s Australian era, including the classic "Colossus: God's Country"!  I found this image by searching a comic artist, I found Jim Lee and he is started as an artist at Marvel in 1987.

                                      

the Amazing Spider-Man Chameleon Strikes! Cover

I was also thinking about The Amazing Spider-Man. Gil Kane was involved in the anti-drug storyline in The Amazing Spider-Man this series published at March 1963. This was the best comic series that ever created and the story telling inspires me for my concept works.

First of all I need a idea about character that I am going make so I search videos for ideas.

How PRO ARTISTS design characters

I found this video will be useful for my design.

4 Steps to Character Design

1. Research
2. Ideation
3. Iteration
4. Finalizing

CHARACTER DESIGN 101 - My process and things to keep in mind!

Describing the character with your initial ideas!

Organizing visuals for the idea of character is the important part!!

These are the characters I made by using a character designing site, but the data and the options are not various so this is the best I can create.

References:

Wikipedia. (2020). Jim Lee. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lee.

Comic Vine. (2024). Gil Kane (Person) - Comic Vine. [online] Available at: https://comicvine.gamespot.com/gil-kane/4040-1764/ [Accessed 28 Oct. 2024].

 

Multi-pack Bag Pack Advertisement

 Multi-Pack Bag packs: Pack Mate

  My idea was bag pack for daily use carrying a lot of stuff at the same time   like  your phone, keys, laptop or camera,   power bank, charger. There is a space   for everything! It's perfectly useful for   school, work or travel.

First, I searched for background to my brand Pack Mate

I started searching background images, first i tried black background but then I realized the logo that I'm trying to download on Tailor Brand Web Site wants me to subscribe to use the image because of that I'll go whit white background.

                 

Then I found a image of the product, I choose this one because its simple and there is no logo on it.

And then I putted the image on Pixlr to edit the image...

I didn't like the background color and changed it to white, then I couldn't think of anything else to add and...

After that I thought if I add a real person to show the adventure and nature will be more effective in the advertisement, found this image for editing.

After that I putted the image on pixlr and added a text, changed the color, curve, and shadow, on right top corner there is my logo, product in the middle and lastly the website is at the bottom.

At the end this is the ad of PackMate (Multi-pack Bagpack).

 

It's seems nice and understandable for my opinion, I liked the slogans curved look and I think its well blended with the picture, I am glad to find this image for background cause without that it's looking terrible. 

References:

“Tactical Backpack Tactical Backpack.” Threo | Threo, 13 Dec. 2021, threo.co.uk/product/tactical-backpack/. Accessed 17 Oct. 2024.

Advert Ideas N Plan...

Today's task is making an advertisement to sell a sort of product, my ideas about this are:

• In game purchase (Game Credits)

• Multi-pack Bag packs 

• Toothpaste

Idea One: In Game Credits

This is the Screenshot of My Market 

I know a lot of people that dying to buy new cosmetics for their items in the game, and This advertisement targets on gamer community, aren't just for teens. Gamers all of the ages can  show of their experience truly.

 I am interest to advertise this because i love it too and why play the game at the same way as the others, while you can customize your inventory and cosmetics in your unique style to show people your way to play game.

This is my first idea about advertising (in game purchase).

Idea Two: Multi-Pack Bag packs

Jansport Backpack & Daypack: "SHUT UP" Print Ad by DDB New York - AdsSpot Advertising Archive

This image shows backpacks are for carrying your essentials  without making any complements it's a simple design that focuses on function not look. I putted this image because the sentence "If your backpack says something about you, tell shut up and carry your stuff" is funny and memorable for people seen this ad at the streets. The design is kind of simple but the way of advertising is making it more interesting.

 Multi-pack Bag Packs are very useful for   carrying a lot of stuff at the same time   like  your phone, keys, laptop or camera,   power bank, charger. There is a space   for everything! It's perfectly useful for   school, work or travel.

 

I screen shot this two images at: Amazon.com: BAGSMART Slim Business Laptop Backpack with USB Charging, Anti-Theft, Water-Resistant - Fits 15.6-Inch Notebook : Electronics 

Idea Three: Toothpaste

https://www.semrush.com/blog/advertisement-ideas/

This image illustrates Toothpaste. From my point of view, it showcases the strength of the toothpaste in an entertaining way. I want to include this image because it showing an interesting and unique marketing strategy for promoting a toothpaste.

This image is from:

https://www.flipkart.com/formula-123-toothpaste/p/itm65c6c12cbc1ff

This toothpaste keeps your teeth white, strengthens them, and gives fresh breath for longer time than other brands. It also protects your gums