Feelings Through Vignettes
About the Project
Feelings through Vignettes was a project that tasks me with choosing an emotion or multiple emotions and conveying that using spot/vignette illustrations.
The idea I chose was Perfectionism which can be broken down into the emotions of frustration, dread, embarrassment, shame, anger, and sadness.
Learning Goal
✿ Explore writing and creating illustrations that explore and investigate emotion/experience through vignettes
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Project Brief
✿ Pick an emotion that you will be focusing a specific scene on.
✿ When working on your script, stay away from the obvious. Try not to use specific words to describe the emotion
✿ You will be writing and illustrating for 5-8 year olds.
✿ Illustrate 4 vignettes.
✿ 18” x 9” on a 3 page spread.
✿ Deliverables are a 300 dpi final file and a single file PDF that contains all three pages.
My Process
The first spot shows how Ellie is really focused on sculpting her clay cat but is really frustrated with how her clay cat. The next spot is a mixture of anger, dread, embarrassment, and sadness. Her face turns as red as a tomato. Something perfectionists do often is compare themselves to others and this is what Ellie is doing. The teacher notices her shriek and asks Ellie if she is ok. She confesses how she feels like she's never doing enough no matter how much time she works on her cat. The last spot shows sadness and she is seen crying a waterfall. The teacher tries to comfort her.
