Conceptual

The article

Overview
King Charles is thought to harbour resentment towards the people that his grandmother, the mother of the late queen, conducted a "anti-toast" against.
The death and funeral of the late US president Jimmy Carter prompted Charles to send someone else in his place. (Carter had given her an unexpected lip-kiss.)

Requirement
1 × feature illustration
80 × 140mm
CMYK

1 × illustration
animated GIF for use on website
(should be animated version of print illustration)
RGB

My annotations

Artist studies

Jean Julien

What I find particularly appealing about Jean Julien's gif is his simple ways of animating them to bring them to live, he doesn't complicate the designs or the meaning behind them. I want to make sure my down ideas stay simple but easy to interpret.

franklin booth

Franklin Booth is one of my favourite artists who I wish to learn more about ink techniques, I want to use Booth as inspiration and make my gif at least partly ink and animate it digitally.

Christoph Niemann - Tony's lecture

His work -

My own inspired by Niemann -

First ideas

Initial ideas

first design and development

Original ink piece, I could see afterwards that I had failed to get the position of the thumb wrong and that I didn't like the red of the 'wine'.

Watercolour background of the Union Jack for the background.

At this point I had realised an issue, I misinterpreted the measurements and designed and created by gif with the wrong measurements. I've worked to try and fix this error to the best of my ability.