Weekly Summary: 7

Model Sheet:

I really like the illustration I made for my character sheet so I reused it for my model sheet's profile view.

This was a fairly straightforward process because I didn't have to generate ideas. However I think it really helped me with my 3D awareness because I was thinking of the possibility of modelling it. I had to think of how much information to put so that it can be seen as a model while also not cluttering it with unnecessary details.

Final Piece Thumbnails and Experiments:

Above: Some sketches for final piece ideas. I really wanted a vertical panorama of witch waiting by the tree showing the underground space.

  Above: Iterations of my chosen design.

I mixed the upper and lower levels of 2 designs and fixed the perspective of the bottom part.

 

Above: Colour experiments. I like them all but I can see the scene set during sunset with purple and red hues. My original plan is to get inspiration from Edmund Dulac or Arthur Rackham as shown below. However it proved to be quite difficult their colour palettes and style.

Eventually I went back to just drawing it for now just to get my final piece finished.

Final choice for colours and composition

Something wasn't quite right with my thumbnail so I sat down and analysed it and I realised the character seems a bit lost in this image so I moved her a bit to the right to show her as well as the hole in the tree.

At this point I knew I want to try a completely new design because the brief says to 'maintain a tight focus on the character and pose to emote'. It seems to be a recurring problem that I don't read the brief enough. Maybe it would be worth printing out a copy so that I can keep looking at it and meet the criteria. 

I thought I was in too deep already so I kept colouring this piece hoping that I would eventually like it.

After looking at some sunset photos, I noticed that most trees are silhouettes so I darkened the tree and lowered the saturation. I have now decided to abandon this design and start a completely new one because I'm not going to be happy with it. 

Dulac, E. (2007). File:Edmund Dulac - The Garden of Paradise - Fairy of the Garden garment.jpg. [image] Available at: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Edmund_Dulac_-_The_Garden_of_Paradise_-_Fairy_of_the_Garden_garment.jpg/478px-Edmund_Dulac_-_The_Garden_of_Paradise_-_Fairy_of_the_Garden_garment.jpg [Accessed 3 Nov. 2015].

Rackham, A. (2011). File:Arthur Rackham King Thrushbeard.jpg. [image] Available at: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Arthur_Rackham_King_Thrushbeard.jpg [Accessed 3 Nov. 2015].