Sam WeerawardaneFMP Blog 9: Opening up the World.Returning briefly to my original research question, this project seeks to explore how illustration can evoke more empathy towards street…Mar 24Mar 24
Sam WeerawardaneFMP Blog 8: Into the TreesWith my plot finally in a more confident place, I needed to pin down my visual language approach for the final book too. I tend to…Mar 2Mar 2
Sam WeerawardaneFMP Blog 7: What’s the story?It’s taken me a long while to get back on this blog because I hit a major roadblock and was struggling to circumvent it. The plot. I…Feb 14Feb 14
Sam WeerawardaneFMP Blog 6: StorytellingMy biggest worry about this story is that I somehow churn out a cliché, feel-good, predictable story, that has been written a million times…Jan 7Jan 7
Sam WeerawardaneFMP Blog 5: Taking ShapeI’ve developed characters for a previous project when I had a strong sense of who they were from the get-go, and how that story would…Dec 17, 2023Dec 17, 2023
Sam WeerawardaneFMP Blog 4: Narrative Form and Visual Language.As I began to think of this project in a more executional sense, I considered my audience and how they might receive it.Nov 24, 2023Nov 24, 2023
Sam WeerawardaneFMP Blog 3: What am I trying to say, and who needs to hear it?Framing a problem can be challenging, especially when it has so many various issues interlinked within it. Referred to as wicked problems…Nov 24, 2023Nov 24, 2023
Sam WeerawardaneFMP Blog 2: The Dogless Void.I questioned why this was a big deal for me at all. Why do I care about stray dogs in Sri Lanka, or dogs being abused? What specifically is…Nov 18, 2023Nov 18, 2023
Sam WeerawardaneFMP Blog 1: The Problem.It’s Week 8 of my Final Major Project of my MA Illustration at Falmouth University. I’ve had a slow start due to other commitments beyond…Nov 13, 2023Nov 13, 2023
Sam WeerawardaneTwinky Turns TenI want to make this clear from the onset — I have two dogs, I love them both, but I have a clear favourite. There is one that I share a…Jul 21, 2023Jul 21, 2023
