1B – Graphic StylesBY HASEEB PATEL

Cartoon

Composition: The text and the image connotes an idea from different sizes of character for example, it tells us that ‘Ed’ was the tallest and eddy was the smallest so they displayed the picture in height order.

Point of focus: The point of focus is the different sets of characters made to create the cartoon. In a programme such as Ed, Edd and Eddy the graphic designer has drawn the characters and made them animated to form a cartoon programme.

Colour: They had used red text because it represents a kids favourite colour. The different characters are wearing different set of colour in the show which represents that the characters have different personality but act the same.

Typography: The text being used for the task is ‘Century Gothic (Body)’ as it suits the target audience for the specific graphic style.

Pop-Art

Composition: The text and the image blend in together in a way as it creates the same design/pattern. In the image, it shows a dotted design on the thumb, similarly it also states the same design on the text.

Point of Focus: The most important part of this image is the positivity shown in the image. As it has been drawn, the user has drawn the boldness of the image to show its importance.

Colour: In pop art, the colours shown is similar in each image. For example, in the picture above it shows us that yellow is commonly used in graphic designs such as pop art.

Typography: The typography used in pop-art is in the stylistic section as pop art image use this for creating comic books and much more.

Anime

Composition: With anime, there is not much text involved however the characters and images which have been shown have been drawn by Japanese owners.

Point of Focus: The most important part of the image and the anime industry is the eyes which have been drawn in detail. The eyes must be drawn in this way to give it the name anime.

Colour: The colours which have been used are things like blue to represent the eye colour as well as the clothes as well as the background. This ,may represent that anime images include majority of blue in their drawing.

Typography: With anime there is no text being used, anime is majority pure images.

Comparison

All three of these graphic styles are different in their own way: The cartoon graphic style is different compared to the others as the characters

shown are all drawn by free hand, this means that the characters made are fictional and some programmes were created whilst drawing the characters through free hand and without a software.

The pop art graphic style includes a background with two different colours. For example as you can see at the bottom, you can see a texture of yellow and orange to allow the piece of art to be shown perfectly.

The anime graphic style is different as it is a moving image like the cartoon graphic style. However it is similarly different as anime is specially designed such as the eyes which have been created by Japanese users. All the anime characters look similar which makes it different from the others.