Design Exercise

Drawings from Monday 24/10/16

For this exercise we randomly selected one object and one animal, we had to design a version of the object based on the animal. I selected carriage and snake.

Initial Sketches

Development

Further Development

I came up with a design with the main body of the carriage resembling a snake's head with an open mouth and seats that mimic a scale pattern.

Tamara Colour Compositions

Exterior Establishing

Exterior Establishing

Exterior Establishing

Unfinished Exterior Low Angle

I'm going to work on coming up with details for the buildings. I'm struggling a little with the planning of the low angle shot; I'd like to show some of the taller buildings up in the back of the shot, to make sure it looks and feels like a city. I can see that my horizon line is in the wrong place, so I'll work up some more thumbnails trying different angles.

The hunt for inspiration and reference images continues. I've been exploring real and imagined cities and I've found looking at cities in animation, like Townsville, home of the Powerpuff Girls, is quite helpful in terms of layering and composition.

Thumbnails 53-66

Ersilia and Fedora

53-60

Isaura

61-66

Research Page

Digital Painting and Thumbnails 25-32

These digital paintings and drawings were done in Photoshop on 19th September.

~ 20-25 minutes

~ 40 minutes

I forgot to time myself for the colour study so that's a rough estimate, I'd like to keep track of how long things are taking me in future.

Here are some Invisible Cities thumbnails completed in class.

Baucis

25-28

Esmeralda

29-32

Using the lasso tool in painting wasn't something I'd considered before, I really like the effects it can give and will spend more time exploring it. I'm particularly pleased with thumbnail 32.