'David McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer
filmmaker and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found
objects, digital art and sculpture.' Wikipedia
The illustration that I looked at showed different images of trees, leaves, an old man dead in bed, railway tracks, roadsigns, baseball ball. What I like about this graphic novel page is the fact it doesn't look like the typical novel, it incorporates pictures with drawings and paintings. He uses a lot of yellow and green tones. This gives a sepia effect giving the impression of age. The yellow and greens are natural colours, this could be connoting that the life cycle this man in the story has gone through is natural and is something we will all have to face.The overall feel of the piece is depressive,dark, gloomy, tragic.
Although it doesn't look like a normal graphic novel it does follow a lot of the conventions of graphic novels. It has frameing and internal dialouge but the mixture of photography, collages and drawings gives it an individual feel to it.
Although it doesn't look like a normal graphic novel it does follow a lot of the conventions of graphic novels. It has frameing and internal dialouge but the mixture of photography, collages and drawings gives it an individual feel to it.
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