I screen recorded myself clicking through the scrapbook we created so that we could upload it in a video format. When screen recording the software seemed to chop the top and bottom off of the video, but here it is. I chose to add the Beatles ‘I saw her standing there’ to play through the video as its mentioned in the pivotal moment on the film.
We decided to use a lot of ‘danger’ colour’s in Charlies childhood drawings such as red,black and yellow. We wanted to express a troubled childhood.Even in happier drawings we included yet or black to express the forever present mental problems.
We also used a lot of blues as blue can be used to express sadness and melancholy. It can also be used as a calming and peaceful colour.
Here are some examples
Even in his adult years, all letters from his father were in blue ink but Charlie still uses black, in his very last letter from Charlie when he has found peace and happiness we used blue ink, as a small detail to express feeling safe and secure at last.
Here are some examples
 
We decided to research children’s drawings and see if there is any particular meaning behind them, some of the research i found is actually quite shocking.
A Bunch of Balloons
Balloons can symbolize a child who has trouble making friends, who make feel isolated or has a close bond with a parent and wont stray from that. You can see that clearly in this drawing as there is a balloon string attached to the mother too.
Stick FiguresÂ
Drawing skills often begin to tell a story in kindergarten. Although kids at this age tend to use simple stick figures, you can sometimes pick things up from facial expressions, where family members are placed, and what they’re doing. This second picture, drawn by a 5-year-old girl, is an example of that. She drew her mother on the far left, followed by the family dog, her father, herself, and her 8-year-old brother. The girl drew herself as larger than her parents — this typically reflects good self-esteem. It’s worth noting that she placed herself between her father and brother: When children are between 4 and 6 years old, they develop a sense of their gender identity. As a part of this normal developmental process, young girls often get physically and emotionally closer to their father (boys this age tend to get closer to their mother), and the feelings are temporary.
taken from http://www.parents.com/fun/arts-crafts/kid/decode-child-drawings/
Lots of DetailÂ
The 7-year-old girl who drew the third picture is a triplet who was born prematurely. When I asked what the people in the picture are doing, she started on the left with her brother, who is on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum. “He’s doing the laundry, Mommy is working on the computer, I am hanging up clothes, Daddy is washing the car, and my sister is washing the glasses.”
The fact that she has drawn numerous body parts and clothing on her parents suggests that she has mature visual and motor skills. By looking at everyone’s clothing, I see that she recognizes gender differences. The drawing also shows the children and parents as a cohesive unit; they seem to enjoy doing everyday tasks together. Notice how they’re each drawn in a distinctive way — the brother has a larger frame and a big head, and her sister has glasses, for instance. This tells me that she’s able to think of each family member as an individual.
http://www.parents.com/fun/arts-crafts/kid/decode-child-drawings/
A Hole in the Ground
The last image was drawn by a 7-year- old girl who’d recently gone with her parents and younger brother to her grandfather’s funeral. I was impressed with several aspects of her picture, including her ability to visually distinguish the adults from the kids and to draw faces that reveal sadness. She drew herself and her father in profile, which may indicate that she and her father have a strong bond. It was encouraging that she drew everyone close together, and touching; this shows she perceived her family as tight-knit in this sad moment in their lives.
The Soccer Match
This top drawing is terrific: It shows a family enjoying a sport together. When the 9-year-old boy who drew it was asked to describe the image, he answered, “We’re playing soccer. Dad said to pass, so I passed to him, and then he passed to Mom, and Mom passed to my little brother. And he scored!” The boy’s description of his picture reveals his active engagement with other members of his family. I notice that his mom is drawn as the biggest person in the family, and while that might not be significant, I could use the opportunity to say, “You drew your mom as the largest person in the picture. Is she the leader of the family team?”
A View From Above
The 7-year-old boy who drew this last picture says it’s “all of us playing Sorry.” I immediately noticed that he drew his family from the perspective of someone looking down at their game table. This suggests he’s got strong visual-spatial skills; children like this are often artistic and particularly good at puzzles and games. This family is engaged in playing together at home, which reveals a positive relationship among them. Since he drew his parents and younger sister around the sides and bottom of the board and himself at the very top, I might point to that and comment, “Great drawing — you sure are the strong one in the family,” and wait for his response. I’d start there because he depicts himself in a way that indicates a well-developed sense of identity.
i got all of this interesting information from http://www.parents.com/fun/arts-crafts/kid/decode-child-drawings/?page=2
Yesterday and this morning as a group we have been creating Childrens drawings, teenage diary entries etc from Charlie Babbit’s point of view (Tom Cruise from Rain Man). Here are my pieces so far.
Trying to make them look old has been our biggest difficulty.
A young drawing by Charlie depicting his dead mother as an angel in heaven.
As he grows, so does his love for cars, here is a pen study by Charlie of his dads car
An angry teenage diary entry from Charlie
He defaces his drawing to write about how he hates the car as his dad wont let him drive it
Here is a letter from Charlie after he leaves home
A childhood drawing of charlie, his dad and the rainman
The Rainman
This drawing shows rain man and his early adoration for cars
Rain man helps Charlie through hard times, he sees him as a hero and someone who isn’t afraid.
The rest of the group have done a lot of fantastic work as well and i can’t wait to see it all as a scrap book.
We want to create a digital version of a scrap book made by a kid, and so we decided we need to find ways of making it look realistic, i downloaded some new brushes to try and create a crayon effect. Here are some that i have downloaded and may use.
For this project we will need to take our drawing skills and throw them to ones side as we need to create drawings that are supposedly drawn by a 4 year old+
I had researched this a little last semester and gotten by boyfriends little brothers and sisters to draw their idea of what a monster, villain, super hero etc would be like in their heads, here were their drawings…
We will be making this ‘scrapbook’ digitally and using certain paintbrushes and layering effects to make it look like it was drawn by a child and thats around 50 years old.
Just googling children s drawings has helped me understand a childs idea of how they draw and use colour.
Today, our class got one mighty curve ball, when presenting our lecturer’s realised none of our projects had the ‘ooh’ factor that is  need, they had taken a hop in the right direction, but not the jump.
We had been planning to create a comic book with comical stories to do with Charlie and Raymond from Rainman, now that we have re brain stormed we have came up with a much stronger idea.
We were looking at ideas of twisting the idea completely and having Charlie be the character with the mental problems, perhaps Raymond doesn’t exist and really is just his imaginary friend, so we came up with a solution using this idea…
The comic is no longer a comic, but a scrap book that documents drawings and thoughts from Charlie since he was about 4+ years old. The beginning will be stick men and extremely basic drawings that develop into better drawings as the ‘years’ pass on, most if not all of these drawings will depict Charlie with his imaginary friend (Raymond) who he calls the Rain man. As the years go on further the drawings will begin to stop and the book will form into a diary where Charlie writes his thoughts and worries. He will begin to form an obsession with feeling like something is missing from his life or something is being hidden from it, the scrapbooks very last page will be a a diary entry explaining his joy that he has met Raymond finally and realises he has a brother and he wasn’t crazy after all.
We now have one week left so its all stations go! But i hope that will a full team effort from me, Jordan, Dan and Mark we will get there.
In maya this week we were given the rig to a flour sack and told to make it come to life using the disney flour sacks from the book The Illusion of Life
to begin i decided to draw out of my own flour sacks to work from such as squash, stretched, twisted, dejected, joy, tantrum, curious, cocky, laughter, belligerent and more laughter.
using Maya i recreated all of these with a 3d model apart from Tantrum and More Laughter, here they are below.
Squash
Stretched
Twisted
Dejected
Joy
Curious
cocky
Laughter
Belligerent
Jojo Moyes
What i enjoy about Jojo Moyes book covers is that the backgrounds are feminine and simple, with pretty details such as stars and leaves, the character/characters on cover always a black silhouette. They are simplistic but explain the core plot of the story.
Another author who’s illustrator does something similar is Giovanna Fletcher’s.
One of my favorite books of all time is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and i got the most beautiful version of the book made my Barnes and Noble, when i researched it i saw that they made a lot of books like this, they’re beautiful and i would love to create something like this.
Emma C McCormick 