UNIT 8: Expanded Practice and POD culture ‘AS Discipline’ by Charles Bannerman

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Alan Watson Featherstone on the importance of rewilding.

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"It connects us with some of the most important qualities that I believe
are essential for wellbeing and happiness.
It connects us with the rest of nature. It connects with life ,very important at a time when most of our culture is focused on death and destruction. You have to know the place that you're going to restore. It gives us a common cause and connects us with each other."

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Notes on "Restoring the ancient Caledonian Forest Alan Watson Featherstone TEDxFindhorn"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAGHUkby2Is

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Trees for Life, 2016. Restoring the ancient Caledonian Forest Alan Watson Featherstone TEDxFindhorn. [video] Available at: [Accessed 22 April 2021].

The Outcome

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My outcome focuses on sustainability within the eco-system and its fragility. Visual language helps me create the story as different layouts and colours create different environments for setting the scene. Different colours are used to structure a narrative.

Reflection 03/05/2021

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I attempted to build the layout of my comic by starting by drawing key moments and filling in the blanks with connecting moments. My comic isn't coherent enough yet so I will attempt to add more panels featuring characters who talk about what's going on. This might add more exposition, helping the reader understand the points I'm trying to make.

Story Process & Reflection

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I wanted to start off the first page by introducing some characters, and the setting of the story. This would introduce the reader in a formal manner, letting them know the story's purpose isn't comedic as these types of cartoons usually start abruptly with little to no introduction.

The second page splits the narrative into two timelines, we are shown what happens after the main characters arrive at the island. Trouble ensues.

The third page continues in a third-person perspective. The narrator tells the viewer exposition on the plot and further information on the trouble being caused by mankind on the island. There is a foreshadowing of a conflict later on as a man attempts to light a fire but in his attempt, the kindling burns out and the fire is no more than a wisp of white smoke. This is a metaphor for the hope lost by humanity after the resources have been used up from the island.

Page four focuses on the aftermath of the conflict. When I drew this I thought it was more poignant to show the devastation caused by conflict rather than the conflict itself. This shows a much more dramatic sense of grief.

Page five gets more colourful as the narrative changes to the two main characters, Joe and his grandad who initially discovered the island on page one. Joe's grandad is killed by assassins for plotting to leave the island and detach from the island's kingdom. On page six the grandfather tells Joe to go looking for a new island to live on in peace but warns him not to make the same mistakes he did that lead to the destruction of the island's ecosystem and the formation of a harsh dictatorship.

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Following my group tutorial I've started developing two new comic pages. This time focusing on characters in the story, up close rather than far away and following third person narrative.

My Process

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How I came to my conclusion/ What my influences are.

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Page One

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Page Two

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Page Three

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Page Four

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Page Five

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Page Six

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Influential images

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Argyll-Bute Council, 2021. The History of Argyll and Bute. [image] Available at: [Accessed 16 May 2021].

Personal Archive

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Taylor, S., n.d. IMG_3674. [image] Available at: [Accessed July 2007].

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Pan, L., 2019. Dream collection zine. [image] Available at: .

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Sasaki, M., 2008. Vintage avant-garde manga by Maki Sasaki. [image] Available at: [Accessed 16 May 2021].

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mrdynamite, 2011. bwop. [image] Available at: [Accessed 17 May 2021].

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Comic Club

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Psychedelic cartoons task
'Make a cartoon or single drawing in a psychedelic style'.

I made a quick twenty minute comic about a sentient mushroom. I thought introducing elements of Harvey Ball's iconic smiley faces would be a great way to identify the comic with the sixties style.

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Peer Work

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Mr Natural

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Robert Crumb

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Fritz the Cat

Gilbert Shelton

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Oz Magazine

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Victor Moscoso Comics

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Moscoso, V., n.d. Sex, Rock & Optical Illusions. Fantagraphics, p.twelve.

Crumb, R., n.d. Mr Natural No. 2. [image] Available at: [Accessed 15 April 2021].

Crumb, R., 1970. Sunny Side Up with Mr Natural. [image] Available at: [Accessed 20 April 2021].

Crumb, R., 2017. R.Crumb's Fritz the Cat. [image] Available at: [Accessed 31 April 2021].

Flashbak, n.d. Existence Is Unhappiness: Graham Wood On 24 posters Inspired By 1968 Oz Magazine. [image] Available at: [Accessed 6 May 2021].

Reflection on step by step process

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I started drawing the the panels before I knew what I was going to write in most pages. I thought the drawings would communicate my ideas better than words.