Pop-up narratives

This project was modeled after a design advertising Frog's Leap winery in Rutherford, CA. They have a fabulous design department that produces creative highlighting the activities of the vineyard. Students in my F100 fundamental studio drawing class were given the task of creating their own visual narrative on this pop-up design. As a class we cut and folded the papers. Using ink pen or sharpie and various types of line (hatching, cross-hatching and stippling) they each told a story.

Tre decided to depict the journey of a snowboarder. It begins with his footprints in the snow and takes us along the various views of scenery encountered along the trip up the mountain side. Tre's narrative works well because he used high contrasted marks against the white surface of the paper.

Jay elected to illustrate the evolution story in his pop-up. He begins by showing cellular activity and over time the development of sea and land animals emerged. Jay used a combination of blue and black pens to add visual interest to his narrative.

Both of these artists did a good job of creating variety within their mark making systems.