For this exercise, I have been asked to pick one of my favourite songs, I won’t choose anything too epic and I will pick a song where the lyrics have an interesting range of action or colourful description.

I really struggled to find a song as I have so many favourites. My list of songs I had to choose from:

• Radiohead – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
• The Zutons – Confusion
• The Smile – Pana-Vision
• Squid – Pamphlets
• Crumb – Locket

My chosen song is called: ‘Locket’ – By Crumb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumb_(band)

First, I need to listen to one of my favourite songs and answer the following questions:

What mood does the song have?

The mood of the song is chill/calm. The genres are Rock, Indie rock, Jazz, Psychedelic rock, Dream pop, Neo-psychedelia, Alternative/Indie and Trip hop.

What colours can you imagine fit with the song and how might these change through the song?

I imagine the colours in a lava lamp. Mostly pink, blue and green.

What season is it set in?

Maybe Autumn/Winter?

Next, I needed to write out my chosen song’s lyrics:

I will read the lyrics and focus on where movement and sound might occur in the words.

I will highlight elements of visual imagery which inspire me within the text.

I also made thumbnails about what these could be next to the text.

My 6 panels:

I have created my plan for how I will break up the lyrics into comic panels, I chose three consecutive panels to draw as a silent comic, the pictures evoke a sense of sound, mood or movement that blend well with the lyrics. Below is my plan with the lyrics that connect with the imagery, I chose the second, forth and fifth panels for my final images:

Finally, I will draw my panels in finished form and then pick out a colour palette to colour all of my panels in full.

My colour palette I decided on were the colours that I saw when originally listening to the song, Pink, Blue and Green. Below are my final images:

Evaluation: This exercise was really fun, I enjoyed finding one of my favourite songs and drawing the first image that came into my head for each verse of the song. I think if I were to adapt this exercise further I would maybe spend some time doing a psychedelic animation to go with the song.