Self-portrait comic strips
Roy Lichtenstein. Art for the cover of the April 1966 issue of Newsweek.
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Roy Lichtenstein. Whaam! 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.
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To begin the project, we were to choose any onomatopoeia word of our liking, and use it as the basis for this project. This comic strip project is based off of Roy Lichtenstein's work, therefore we used similar techniques in our works. Using Adobe Illustrator, we wrote our words in comic style font, and used 3-D effects, and other kinds of warp/distortion tools to make our words look more exciting. In order to stay true to the "pop art" look, we chose bright colors, and kept them consistent throughout the project.
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Our projects all incorporated special art styles called Ben-day dots, and also stripe patterns. Like the color schemes, we also kept the use of these dots, and stripes consistent. After we progressed further into the project, we took pictures of ourselves and any other objects that we needed in our projects. We then used the pen tool to trace the pictures and used "pop art" colors to fill the newly traced silhouette.
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Among our requirements, we needed to use black stokes on all off our traced images. In addition, we also needed to have dialogue that was overdramatic, but fitting to our scenes. Again, we used comic style font and also dingbats to create our speech bubbles. After our scenes were all finished, we transferred our Illustrator files to Photoshop, where we were given a template to collage all of our images together.
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Finished Product