Visual Journal - first ideas

I'm focusing on character based propaganda and cartoons for my visual work. I'm not sure how I want these ideas to be finalised yet but I'm enjoying churning out some characters relating to politics. I have mainly focused on trying to basically illustrate political concepts, such as militarism, the perceived strength of armies, and the nonchalant nature our governments appear to take in regard to environmental safety. 

The inspiration for these personified characters comes from the classic Disney design values present in Fantasia:

                                

For these sort of characters, I want to keep away from using faces as a limitation to see how else I can respond and express personality using just arms and legs.

Practical Work Proposal

I plan to to keep on investigating propaganda as the essay has led me to really interesting topics. I am motivated to demonstrate the frustration and emotion that is evident within the comics I have already analysed. I intend to look at wartime comics and how they have developed. I am quite interested in the characters within the comics but this area requires more development. Inventing original characters is what I hope to lead to by investigating past and current characters. I should use more comic aesthetics in my work such as more colour because previously I have stuck to line and monochrome colours. Also, I want to research more propaganda and how it relates to comics e.g. Vietnam, Red Son etc.

I plan to use a varied range of material to develop my ideas. I want to introduce a narrative to the characters which would in turn make the messages have more depth.