Heroes and Villains

In storybooks, novels and movies, there are often archetypes of characters. For instance, there might be a romantic hero, a strong leader or a heroine who needs to be rescued. Often, these characters in books or movies have certain classic traits that help you to identify what role they play in the story.

For example, some character traits that can be used to describe a heroic main character include:

• Dauntless
• Strong
• Courageous
• Reliable
• Fearless
• Daring
• Tough
• Brave

When describing a villain, or the story’s antagonist, it would be common to use these kinds of character traits:

• Ugly
• Evil
• Cunning
• Deceptive
• Murderous
• Psychotic

 http://examples.yourdictionary.com/character-trait-examples.html#QVC5QSEyMw5op2cr.99

For this project I decided to research and sketch both Disney and Comic Book Heroes and Villains. I wrote a brief description about how each character fits their role they have whether that being in a film or comic, basing it on the list of character traits of what a hero or villain should possess. I chose to use a pencil for these drawing because it’s my favourite way of documenting research and I feel like it also compliments the original drawing style that the Disney character designers used and also the comic book illustrators.

I then chose to use my favourite sketches and decided to make them into posters. I then added personal quotes to each posters that both have different meanings. The quote on the hero poster is from my auntie who is may favourite person and who is seen a hero to me and my family, she would say this all the time to me when I was a kid as she was about leave. I still live by these words. And the quote on the villains poster is from me, when I asked my sister what would quote and she said “you’re like the joker you’re misunderstood and evil at your core” so I used this quote because when I was a kid I got the lyrics to a songs wrong (misunderstood) and was always a very badly behaved and had a bad temper and my family often referred to me as the evil twin/ devil child.