Evaluation

Has my work communicated the nursery rhyme row row row your boat without words. Well after looking over my comic I don't think I have successfully shown the nursery rhyme. This is due to the fact without the words the rhyme is just too vague to be seen even though I tried to combine all the aspects of how to create a successful wordless piece I think I have selected the wrong type of text. Rhymes though well known aren't as popular as fairy tales like in my fmp and I think due to this communicating a nursery rhyme wordless would need to be a different formate. If I were to add text to my comic it would make perfect scene and be a surreal interesting take on the rhyme but I just don't think there's enough there to say it fully communicates the rhyme. If I were to re create this as an animation maybe it would have worked better but I feel as a comic it needs something else added to t like to be in a book of other nursery rhymes without text, in that situation the piece would work fine because it would be surrounded by similar rhymes in comic form and after seeing a few different ones would be noticeable and then you would understand what the subject was based on.
Though I do think as a wordless comic vaguely based on the rhyme it works because I have utilised all the aspects that need to be there to help communicate what happening such as gesture, scale, and expression and use of strong pattern to help show form. I think that if I were to do a selection like this then put them in a set based of how iv made this one it could work but as a stand alone comic I just don't think there is enough to the story of the rhyme to have it show through. Maybe if I had chosen a longer rhyme like twinkle twinkle little start I would have had more to work with and been able to make more pages giving me more space to properly interrogate the rhyme.
As a process I think my final images work with the use of the pattern and the spot colour to create  the form of the ocean and this is something I should try and put into my fmp rather than just always using full colour as spot colour allows me to highlight one aspect that I want the viewer to concentrate on and this could be a good way to brake up how I colour my stories in my fmp. I also would like to continue to look into wordless process as I have found it interesting and think if using a different story I could really put the techniques I learnt into a good solid wordless outcome.
So overall I think as a stand alone comic it doesn't 100% communicate the fact its about the nursery rhyme but if put in a collections with others like it, it would then be more noticeable and work a lot better.