ENVIRONMENTS

Environment progression

Line Drawings

I thought of the line drawings almost as the equivalent to the silhouettes, i gave myself 2 - 3 minutes to make some really quick environments without reference and see how they came out, the 2 that i originally liked was the 2nd and the 4th ones.

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Value sketches

After completing the line drawings i went straight into giving them value and lighting, for this i used a big black brush but turned down the opacity as this made it easier to show lighting in the images. I have learnt that the background and or the subject needs to be lighter than the foreground, also i wanted to almost add a frame to the images using this technique which is probably why i like the 2nd one the best as it has both a background and a foreground, using the twisted wood around the edges as a frame and making it very dark around the edges.

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Colour 

I wanted  to stay very basic with the colours but as well as this the iron age was a very gloomy period and so i didn't use and bright, vibrant or high contrast colours, also its Britain. These aren't detailed and made with a very small range of colours because i want to leave room for change when i go to develop one of them further.









Idea for final

For my final idea the piece that i am going to further develop is number 2, this is because i really like the perspective and the framing of it. As the character needs to be in the piece as well i think it will work well if i have her walking into the woods (facing this way).