Colin West Moose Development

My Colin West poem is called 'Moose' and goes 'What use a Moose? Except perhaps, for coats and caps.' and the concept the original illustration gives is that a use is not good for anything apart from holding coats and caps on it's antlers. My idea for this was to make the concept a little more adult focussed and make an illustration which suggests the moose has actually been used to make the coats and caps. 

This is the start of my development for the Moose, I have simply sketched out some Moose heads which I could possibly use in my illustration on photoshop. I will then pick which I think will work best and develop it further.

Life Drawing: Session One

Here are some sketches that I like from life drawings and images which I think will be helpful with character development in my narrative brief. I really liked working with coloured pencil because it was kind of new to me going straight in with colour because I usually draw outlines first but it was a challenge and I really liked the technique. 

 

 

 

Character Development: Witch

The character I decided to develop first is the Witch, I started off by thinking about her appearance and what her features would look like.

I started off by looking at hands and the different positions I could draw them in. I wanted to focus on hands at first because one of my initial illustration ideas I wanted to focus mainly on the witches hand so I thought if I wanted to go along this route I should think about practising. I am very pleased with how some of these turned out because drawing hands is not my strong point but I think I caught on quite quickly. All the hands I drew were drawn from life/photographs I took. Then I started looking at facial features. I began with the eyes and I basically drew surrounding peoples eye structures and positions and converted them into elderly woman eyes by adding wrinkles and lines. I really like these sketches and I think they have given me a very rough idea on how I want the eyes of my witch to look. I next looked at the nose and how it was structure. I started out by drawing a regular nose from the side and developing it on from there. I added lumps and bumps and crooked areas just like a stereotypical witches nose. I drew a selection of these, from different angles too, and I am really fond of a few of the sketches.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(I am currently writing this after I have finished my illustrations and even though I really like most of these drawings I did not use any in my final images due to a huge change in my plan and process.)