Reportage
I was inspired by Searle, Steinberg, and Grosz because of their sketchy style. Most of my drawings are for the beginning part of the projects; it serves as a start for the annotation and development of ideas. But in this project in particular the sketch itself could serve well as an outcome. And although both artists have a realistic touch on their drawings they also allow a bit of caricature. This non-perfect aesthetic helps to capture real-life information in a faster way, which I believe fits well for a reportage where information is the main goal.
This book that I found on our visit was crucial for the aesthetic creation of my reportage; a mix of styles, making the main characters with more texture and details while the background is neater and in a plant architecture style. I like when the illustrators chose one color to give emphasis to certain information or the opposite; making the background with colored lines so the characters would be in focus
Ralph Steadman and Priscilla Coleman were both inspirations for the half-painted style that I adopted for my Reportage aesthetics. I wanted to only some parts of my drawings to have color and leave the background with a “clean look”. This aesthetics’s allows showing much information at the same time without one hiding the other
Andrício de Souza was a good reference also for the aesthetic that I was looking for; with backgrounds using architecture’s style but at the same time hand madded and not completely right in both perspective and line precision
Sarah Anderson is one of my main inspirations for comics because she’s able to pass successfully a lot of emotions and expressions using a minimalistic style. And I used her as a reference to create some comics about the pandemic situation, and I wanted them funny and at the same time dramatic way.
I love Danny Casale’s work, he makes animated versions of his illustrations that are extremely simple, colored in a flat way, and with weird-shaped characters, and that doesn’t make it any less conceptual and funny to watch. Especially in this pandemic times, he really made me laugh and have a good time even when talking about serious subjects
Hannah Hilam has a very similar approach to Sarah Anderson but they both inspired me to a funny comic approach. I wanted to give a more “lighter” touch to the coronavirus stories and I think that in a world that already has too much heavy information, make it funny is a wonderful way to make people’s mind better and lifeless heavy
Sketchbook
Although there’s the idea of comics in the project, bringing “real” information and more tangible was crucial to make it look like a reportage. I then started to collect conversations about the situation that I had with friends or family. And in my house to observe the difference in behavior, and then make a mix between funny and informative.
It’s kind of heavy to think that we are not able to touch each other anymore but I decided to think about the most comic situation that could be coming from this fear of interaction
The scenarios behind I wanted to leave very "clean" so it wouldn’t be confused with the information and comics that would come on top of it
