前一陣子硬客從臉書上收到了一份來自新朋友 Georgina 的邀約，緣由是她們準備要出版經典「童話愛麗絲夢遊仙境」，而希望徵選大家的插畫作為書本的封面。硬客為自己設立的目標是要出版書籍，而這樣的邀約跟自己的方向吻合，於是這個作品便誕生了。
這陣子硬客所研究的主題在於「用圖說故事」，作了不少發想練習（有興趣的朋友可以到硬客的「素描本」頁面觀賞，之後還會陸續的更新）。由於這些練習，讓這次的構圖順利了不少。
構思方面硬客希望讓愛麗絲的服裝顯得較有流行感些，參考了現代哥德蘿莉式的穿著。配色希望讓人一看就知道她是愛麗絲，於是採用了傳統的金髮藍洋裝。騎著大白兔的畫面是在一開始構思時便浮現腦裡的構想，由於通常大家對白兔這個角色的印象都是小巧可愛的，這樣的反差倒也很有趣，加上了特色物件的懷錶表現他的角色完整性。後面的配角追兵完全是陪襯，因此造型只加上一點小變化，上色也是偏向不顯眼的灰色調，僅有撲克牌花色的紅較為顯眼。
整體配色以淡綠色調為主衍伸，配上紅色作為點綴。視覺引導上從懷錶的分針經由白兔指向愛麗絲，再隨著愛麗絲的視線和秀髮飄的方向移至追兵，城堡，再擴散至整個畫面。
當畫面能說故事時，觀賞者就多了一層可解讀，能使圖畫變得更生動有趣，並且能傳達作者的意念。「圖和故事的融合」這是硬客近期的心得，和大家分享！
本作品在活動官網 Fixionaria Historias Ilustradas 的連結（西班牙文）>>
Fixionaria Historias Ilustradas 的粉絲團（西班牙文）>>
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A while ago INKc received an invitation from a new friend Georgina. They are preparing to publish the classic fairytale "Alice in Wonderland" and therefore created a contest for an illustrated book cover. My goal for this year is to publish a book, this kind of invitation fits my critiria, and so this artwork was created and submitted.
The main theme I have been experimenting is how to tell a story with picture, for that I did quite
a few exercises working on my imagination (The exercises are in the Sketchbook section and I will keep on updating it). Because of these exercises the composition process had been quite smooth for this artwork.
I wanted Alice to look more trendy so I gave her dress a gothic lolita feel, keeping the traditional blonde hair blue dress colouring so she will still be easily identified as Alice. An image of Alice riding a big white rabbit was the first thing that came to my mind while I was reading the brief. Traditionally the rabbit character had always been tiny and cuddly, a big one
seems quite different and intereting. I gave him a pocket watch for easy character identification. The poker card soldiers are there as background characters so I gave the almost identical characters some variations, base on greyish tones, decorated with the red from heart patterns.
The colouring are based on green and similar colours, using red as decoration. Viewer's eyes are directed from the pocket watch's minute hand through rabbit to Alice. Redirected with Alice's line of sight and long hair to the soldiers, then finally the view spread to the whole picture.
When a picture can tell a story, the viewers has more things to read into, it makes the picture a lot more interesting and meaningful, then the author is able to communicate idea through his artwork. "Combining the power of picture and story" is what INKc has learnt recently, and I am glad to be able to share the thoughts with you here.
Link to this artwork on official site of contest "Fixionaria Historias Ilustradas" (Spanish) >>
"Fixionaria Historias Ilustradas" fan page on Facebook (Spanish)>>
Kyle.INKc
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