Self-Portrait Comic Strip
Roy Lichtenstein. Art for the cover of the April 1966 issue of Newsweek.
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Roy Lichtenstein. Girl in the Mirror. 1963.
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Roy Lichtenstein was "an American pop artist best known for his boldly-colored parodies of comic strips and advertisements." His style is universally recognized, and has influenced visual culture for decades. Click here for a full bio on this renegade artist.
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To create this project, we first chose an onomatopoeia word which would become the inspiration for the story of our comic strip. A comic-style font was utilized, as well as warp effects, and a 3-D effect. The shapes behind the word were created by using the Distort/Transform tool on basic oval shapes. The color palette for the project was limited to the "Pop Art" palette, so as to better keep with the theme of the work. In order to reflect the Lichtenstein style of Ben-day dots, I made my own dot patterns, as well as stripe patterns, to apply to the word and shapes. These patterns were saved into swatches to be used all throughout the project. To expand on this first slide, we each filled out a storyboard sketch of where we planned to take our comic strip in later scenes.
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In order to continue with our comic strip, we each downloaded pictures which would be necessary for the story of our projects. These objects were traced with the pen tool, and given fills from either the Pop Art palette, or our personally made dot/stripe patterns. Each object in the comic strip was given an uneven, black brush stroke, which we made in class, in order to better replicate the Lichtenstein comic style.
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To create the self-portrait in the project, we uploaded a digital picture of ourselves into the Illustrator document, to be traced and filled appropriately. The actions of the person within the project were made to be obviously reflective of the initial onomatopoeia word. To install the thought bubble, a new ding-bat text font was downloaded, and given a fill of white. The font within it was, again, the comic style print, and is coherent with the theme of the strip. All three of the slides were then exported as JPEGs and opened in Photoshop, where they were put into a pre-made comic strip document created by Mrs. T.
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Above is the finished project, which demonstrates Lichtenstein-style aspects in order to create a three slide story about a girl excited over a plate of fresh chocolate chip cookies. . . Her favorite!