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The Final Major Project is an exciting brief for me as I get to pursue my own idea for this project. This project is to show what I want to become in the Illustration industry and what it will say about me. This project will be about exploring mental health and questioning it. How has mental health been portrayed through superhero narratives, what impact does it have on society and how can I change the perceptions?

From past projects which can help me through this project would be projects or workshops that have explored book binding, narrative based and character building. Some current projects that are running alongside this which I think will be helpful is the Anthology which is a project that explores creating a book. This entails page layouts, book binding and how image works with text. Another project that will be helpful is the DNAD project which is game design. I think this will be useful because of the world building and character design that develops into the game.

In this project I would like to explore character design as I want to create my own characters in my story. I want to look at the theories behind creating a character and what makes them pull the audience in. As my project will be about mental health I will be researching different types/certain illnesses as it can be broad: depression, bipolar, personality disorder and scizahponia. I want a better understanding of mental health as it will make for a better foundation. A few books that I wish to help me for my research: The Joker a Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime, The Joker Psychology Evil Clowns and the Women who they love, Batman Unmasked Analyzing a Cultural Icon,The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Cambridge Companion to Narrative, Race and Representation, 99 Ways to tell a Story: Exercise in Style, Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder, Art of a Character the Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film and TV, The Dark Triad of Personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism and Psychopathy in Everyday Life.

I would like to develop my book binding skills and explore different ways of bookbinding for making a comic. Page layouts are an important one for this project as well. Again I would like to be able to create my own narrative and characters, narrative is a skill that I keep revisiting but still needs development and character design is something that I have just skimmed through before. I think these are the core skills that will help make this project come to life.

My ambition for this project is to create a comic book about mental health or that involves mental health. As I want this to link to my dissertation which is about the Joker I thought a superhero narrative that entails mental health would be interesting. This time instead of using the stereotypical scenario which the villain has the health disorder I want to use it in a different way.

Some of the practitioners that I will look at: Sonaksha Iyengar, Prathiksha Bhat, Pranita Kocharekar, Mounica Tata which do Illustrations on mental health. Other artists that I’m going to look at are: Robert Crumb, Bill Watterson, Art Spegialmen which are comic/graphic novel artists.

My target audience that I’m aiming for is 16 above that are interested in e.g. superheros, comics, mental health, storytelling. I think a good way to interact with them will be interviews, surveys or questionnaires. I think talking to people who have mental health and people who don’t will give a good overview on who understands and can drive my story.

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what I want to try and do for my fmp is to make a comic book that invovles superheroes. I think to add some drive to my project I will involve mental health in my comic.

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1. Joker
the new film of the joker has come out and it has a new perspective on the character. he is the protagonist in the story and an anti hero. The plot of the story is athur fleck falling down in a hole of society which people don't care. I think that this film focuses on mental health as he has a few problems. the film it self doesn't name what condition/s he has, but he has an uncontrolable laugh, hullaications and he believes he is funny. Aswell as all that he really skinny so he could be anorexia.
2. Joker (dark knight)
yet again the joker in the dark knight is a different character which could be precieved as a terrioist. There are therioes that the Joker has PTSD and he was a soilder who suffered battle scars on his face. he likes gasoline and guns as theyre cheap also he knows how to use explosives. the make up could be warpaint to scare his victems.
3. Riddler
another batman villain with a health condition is riddler who has OCD. He is obsessed with batman always want to try and out smart him. Every crime he does he can't help but leave a riddle behind which can destory his plans.
4. moon knight
moon knight is a superhero who has D.I.D, he is a bit like the batman but he suffers with identity disorder.
5. gollum
he is suggested that he has schiziod personality disorder. He talks to himslef constantly and has obession with the ring, increased agression, anti social behavious.
6. harley quin
harley quin has battered person syndrome, she is always getting beaten by the joker but she comes crawling back no matter what. she wants all the joker attetion but because he is so focused on the batman, she hates batman.

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the squash and stretch process is used in animation, but it can be used in character design. It is a good way to see what your character looks like with different emotions and how you are able to exaggerate them.

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ive been looking at shape theory and how that can play into my characters desigen. using circles for characters indecates that they are friendly, safe, kindness and softness. squares are used for characters that are stubbon, unmoving and sturdy. on the other hand triangles are good for villain characters they convy danger or can be dangours, evil.

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the line of action is a good method to bring characters to life it makes them feel more real. with my drawings I tend to make them look stiff so hopefully using this method it can make them look more flexiable. the red line is the action of the spine and how the character shoud be posed.

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sex and gender differences as they relate to the causes and expression of medical conditions are established for a number od diseses, including selected mental disorders
attributable to an individaul's reproductive organs and xx or yy chromosomal complement.
biological sex as well as an individual's self-representation that includes the psychological, behavioral and social consequences of ones percieved gender.
some of the differences are based on only biological sex.

as I dont have a mentl health condition I want to be able to have a better understanding on mental health and what i want to focus on.

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I think I'm only going to look at a few different mental health conditions as there is a lot to research and to understand. I think focusing on one condition can flesh out story and narrow my target audience

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schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders include schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders, and schizotypal (pesonality) disorder.
they are definded by abnormalities in one or more of the following five domains: delusions, hallucations, disoragnised thinking (speech), grossly disoragnised or abnormal motor behaviour.

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bipolar and related disorders are separated from the depressive disorders in DSM-5 and placed between the chapters on schizophrenia.
disorder 1 and disorder 2
the bipolar 1 disorder criteria represents the modern understanding of the classic manic-depressive disorder.
for a fully syndromal manic episode also experince major depressive episode during the course of thier lives.
bipolar 2 disorder, requiring the lifetime experience of at least one episode of major depression and at least one hypomanic episode, isno longer thought to be a "milder" condition than bipolar 1 disorder.
the amount of time the individual spends in this condition of depression and becasue the instability of mood experienced by individuals with bipolar 2 disorder is typically accompanied by serious impairment in work and socail functioning
cyclothymic disoder is given to adaults who experience at least 2 years (for children, a full year) of both hypomanic and depressive periods without ever fulfilling the criteria for an episode of mania, hypomanic, or major depression.
stubances of abuse, some prescribed medications, and several medical conditions can be associated with manic-like phenomena.

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low on energy or motovation
no longer enjoying doing things that individual find interesting
numb feeling
causes-personality, family history, drug and alchole abuse, traumatic experience.
general public struggle to understand sever depression
non fuctional, like brain and body has shut down.
the common feature of all of these disorders is the presence of sad, empty, or irritable mood, accompanied by somatic and cognitive changes that significantly affect the individual's capacity to function. what differs amoung them are issues of duration, timing, or presumed etiology.
it is characterizied by discrete episode of at least 7 weeks duration.

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personality disorder tends to start in childhood and thought and behaviours become more ingrained into adualthood.
different personality disorders have different symptoms all involve a pattern of behaviour or thinking that affects almost every aspect of the life.
symptoms can include odd, eccentric thinking or behaviour, dramatic, overly emotional or unpredictable thinking or behaviour, or anxious, fearful thinking.
people with personality disorder maybe unaware they have a problem or seek help.
the causes of personality disorderr isn't fully understood.
personality in general is formed in childhood and a combantion of how you are born and enviroment.
people with personality disorder have, a higher rate of childhood abuse, trauma or neglect. it is throught it maybe due to a complex interaction between negative early life experience and genetic factors.
disruption to attachment between parents and infants, long separation between parents and infants, a lack of positive caregiving in early childhood.
some people are more extroverted and prefer company, others are introverted and enjoy being alone.
some people are emotional while others are calm, some like new experinces while others prefer fimilar.
behaviour and emtion that is extreme and flexiable
it causes destresfind it hard to change their behaviour and adapt to diffferent situations.
there are many different types of personality disorders some may appear withdrawn, dramtic and emotional, and others odd and eccentric.
symptoms are severe enough to affect many different areas of life.
rigid and unhealthy pattern of thinking have trouble perceiving and relating to situations and people.
instability in moods, relationships, behaviours, sense of self.
tremendos fear of abandoment real or precived.

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at least five need to be present
1. fear and abandoment
2. intense and unstable
3. identity disturbance- different personas, in the extreme it can look like multiple personality disorder
4. impulsive- acting without thinking
5. self harming/ scuicide
6. mood shifts
7. chronically feeling empty
8. explosive
9. understress- parnoid

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I watched videos on med circle to get a better understanding of the different disorders I was looking at. it was hard tryig to understand everything written in DSM-5. It is a youtube channel that helps people understand and become more aware of mental health

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i was looking at winnie the pooh becasue there is a theory that each character has an mental disorder. I thought it would help me with the story and how I can entail it in my comic.
pooh- impulsivity
piglet- anxiety
roo- autism
tigger- AHAD
eeyore- depression
rabbit- OCD
kanga- socail anxiety
owl- dyslexia

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this is my second attempt on my hero's design at first I was thinking of making him male but I thought a female hero would be better. For the designs of my hero I was looking at other heroes and wrestling costumes that I thought helped

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I wanted to test colours out for my hero and see what will suit the hero

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I was drawing designs for my heros face and the expressions using the squash and stretch technquie

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Set in the 21st century in London where superheroes exist. The story follows a young boy in college who studies computing. He wishes to be a superhero but not everyone can be one. While at college mass destruction happens around London caused by the hero and the villain, which changes everything. Carl suffers a tragic loss which is caused by the devastation. While the hero feels regret and guilt, feeling responsible for the kid she takes him in.

Through the stressful time, Carl starts to suffer from delusions and hallucinations not understanding what is going on. The hero offers him to be her sidekick and help stop crime and her arch-nemesis. The boy's journey sets off to become a hero but his thoughts and mind are going haywire making him struggle fighting crime.

Silver Tongue wants revenge on the hero and uses crime to draw out the heroes. He doesn’t want forgiveness, he just wants the hero to fill his pain. Then Carl and Silver Tongue learn of each other's past and how they witness the same tragedy. During the final fight, the boy experiences another episode and it is left up to the hero to stop Silver Tongue.

Carl finally goes to see a doctor and explains what has been going on. The story flips back and forth between past and present through the psychiatrist meetings.

This is my story idea so far for the comic book, i'm not too sure about it at the moment I dont know if it will grab the readers attetion

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this was more character designs that I drew up, as my heros power is speed and strenght I did a muscle build. doing the same build on all the designs made it limited to what I could do i think some of the designs would I have suited a slim build.

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this was a tactical design I was going for, I think it doesn't work well because of the build, when thinking of a tactical soilder or spy they are usaully agile and slim

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I wanted to go for a casual look to see if it would suit the present day. ordanry clothes and no suit or mask.