ASS3 - Project 2 - Hierarchy in the Image

Reading An Image

List the content of the picture – breaking the image into its constituent parts

Dragon sleeping

Cave

Treasure being guarded

Armour

Two children

Answer the following questions: 

What the image is about. What is it saying? 

This illustration is about a dragon who is guarding lots of treasure. The armour indicates a lot of knights who have attempted to steal it. There are two children at the entrance of the cave with a fire torch. This suggests that they were investigating and have found where all the knights have disappeared too.

Work out the narrative and identify the story. 

I think the narrative would be something like:

The two children crept in where the loud snoring noises were coming from and discovered a mighty dragon. He was bright read and guarded treasure. They were really frightened but discovered that this is who they had been searching for all along ..... the answer to why all the knights had disappeared from the castle.

Describe the palette and tonal range which has been used. Note if the colours are hot or cold, whether the elements are detailed or textural, and where these approaches are used. 

The dragon is red. this suggest to me heat and more like he is a fire breathing dragon. This is also confirms my theory by the fire torch there is a red orange glow from it reflecting on the wall of the cave to show heat. The dragon has a texture of smooth and scaly to show his skin.

The rest of the cave is blue/grey to show cold and dampness, a typical cave. texture of the ceiling of the cave is bumpy and the mud looks as though its flowing downward to show dampness in the cave.

The ground texture is very bumpy and the armour is a green/grey to show there steel attributes.

Is there any connection between hot colour and the importance of the element in telling the story?

Yes because it reflects a typical dragon that breathes fir. The Knights have been killed this is indicated by the armour near the front of the cave. 

Begin to identify the hierarchy within the image. Which are the most important elements in terms of carrying the narrative or conveying the ideas and how have these been treated? 

In Importance order:

The two children entering the cave discovering the dragon

The dragon protecting the treasure sleeping

The treasure

The armour

The Cave

   By looking at the image and my importance list my top two the children and the dragon have the brightest colour which is the red (red dragon and red fire torch reflecting on cave) this makes the view automatically drawn to these areas of the illustration the next boldest colour is yellow the treasure which is my 3rd in my order and then the armour and then the cave. It makes the viewer look at the image how you want them to see it and what part of it you what them to look at fist. The illustration tells the story in its self helped with the text. Its is good to keep in mind when doing illustrations to identify what you want as the most important part and make it stand out in your illustration.