Churul chronicles


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Creator/Artist: Madhuri Chandrasekhar

Category: Communication Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2021-2023

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2019-onwards

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Sudesh Balan


Detailed Description

Churul Chronicles is a graphic novel about a girl’s hair and its journey towards self-acceptance. Before curly hair became trendy/pretty enough for the mainstream, most of the curly heads dreaded their hair because of its lack of acceptance for its unruly nature. Stories of their ridicule, unsolicited advice on hair straightening, hacks, and tricks that failed terribly to have society-approved ‘beautiful’ hair came together to weave a story about two individuals: a girl and her hair, where the hair transforms from society-approved ‘beautiful’ hair to unruly, wild, curly hair when she hits puberty, and their journey to make peace with the new change. The visual narrative follows two characters’ worlds, one inside and through the frames, and the other running around and outside the frames. They also coincide, meet, or switch places at certain points as per the demand of the story. This project is an attempt at story writing and visual narrative design in static visual storytelling.