This thesis is a record of process of studying human mentality in isolation and a work of illustrating Lord of the Flies by William Golding. 'Isolation' is a subject that I, a researcher, contemplated for long years and it interrelated with the subjec...
This thesis is a record of process of studying human mentality in isolation and a work of illustrating Lord of the Flies by William Golding. 'Isolation' is a subject that I, a researcher, contemplated for long years and it interrelated with the subject of Lord of the Flies which shows a great insight of humanity through situational isolation. Lord of the Flies conveys the concept which the researcher had properly with words and draws up guideline to construct the formative language of isolation. Since 2012, the researcher worked on illustrating dealing with introspection of the humanities by isolation and after the numerous experiments of study on visualizing image, Lord of the Flies by William Golding was chosen for the definite establishment of formative language since 2017.
The definition of 'isolation' is a circumstance of being separated from others and being alone without any assistance. This also can be interpreted as a circumstance that being confined in a certain state which against the free will. Therefore, the researcher defined the concept of 'isolation', considering its not only situational circumstance but also psychological circumstance, as 'a state that someone confined in a circumstance and itself', It indicates the mental status which has no will nor is incapable of recognizing the proper situation. The researcher have studied on expressing isolation through illustration based on the interpretation since 2012. In 2017, Lord of the Flies was chosen as a subject of this thesis since the state of isolation, which the researcher have studied on, was properly expressed in words. This study is to confirm how the researcher observe the emotion in isolation and its purpose is to construct the emotion into formative language.
The human in isolation cannot help itself so that stands still in sadness and with concern. It seems that the identical aspect can be seen from the characters of the book. Even the fragile emotion of loneliness and confusion holds its own beauty and it has to be careful and be gentle to deal with it. Thus, the work depicts its stillness and loneliness instead of desperation. Watercolor and clear masking tape were mainly adopted to indicate the mental status. This study includes the consideration of how further the method of handling ingredients could convey certain emotion to establish the formative language.
In this thesis, formative features in illustration of the book are classified into 4 categories: form of emotion, pattern, color and form. First in 'form of emotion', the emotions in isolation, which are interpreted in the aspect of the researcher's, were tabulated. It was applied to Lord of the Flies to explain its formative way of illustration and a plan of composing image. Secondly in 'pattern', it explains how the quiet and rhythmical movement appears simultaneously. Expressions were symbolized by curtain objects: water, rocks, leaves(tree) and the rest. Methods such as dividing a square with transparent tapes and overlap-techniques: overlapping watercolor were adopted. Thirdly in 'color', simultaneous emotions and uncertainty were interpreted as 'fog' in order that primary colors were hardly used but toned down colors were mainly adopted. The color expresses depression as well as fragility. As the basis, statistics were collected after extracting colors from the 23 pages of illustration, drawing and analysing the graph. Color Image Space, a system developed by I.R.I in order to measure scale of Korean's color sensibility, was applied to explain emotions derived from the color. Lastly in 'form', the way of emotions are expressed by description of body and face was studied in shape. Sustained static condition through minimize the movement of character without any aggressive movement and it shows exhaustion by isolation.