Wednesday 11th

I spent today looking at ideas for my backgrounds i came up with the idea of having grass on all the bug images for time numbers and for the final set, totem polls. As you can see below after spending some time making these and wasting a day i decided that when looking at them they took away from the images instead enhancing them and instead went for a simple gradient related colours. Although bitter as i spent a day converting all my images  until i realised it was a mistake i know i have made the correct decision.

Monday 9th

After having finished my final piece i spent today looking at work that I've done seeing what i want to return to change/finish or make look better. Everything received a little polish up but in particular i looked at finishing off my time piece final piece as it didn't have a background and didn't look very done! So i put it on a ledge maybe a mantle piece where you might find the item in a game! I also tried to distort the image by painting in the distortion around the glass in the hope to give the illusion of real glass on the snow globe. I also had another stab at the bug projects character page as i believed it needed a look at as it really wasn't a good representation of what i can do. Below are the updated images.

Sunday 8th

The last few days i have spent working on my final piece for my character project for the final piece we were asked to pose to emote. So keeping this in mind i posed my character in the way i would imagine my character would be seen like i.e. i went with him sat cross legged lent against his staff with his bird. For this image i really tried pushing myself and decided to bring in the wind in my final piece as i thought with his cloak the imagery could make for an interesting image and pose. Im really happy with the way it turned out with the darks on lights in the sky and in the cloak and the cloak.

Thursday 5th

After completing my model sheet yesterday the next thing for me to look at doing was my character sheet. This posed some real difficult decisions to make as i believed that a character sheet shows off characteristics that aren't common amongst over humans for example not facial expressions. So i decided to show off a characteristic of the staff that wasn't explicitly clear in some of the previous drawings of the staff. The staff is designed to act like a "magic tree staff" i.e. when the shaman goes into the trance to control the bird's (dogs from the story). He plants the staff into the ground and instantly it grows into the earth giving the shaman something to lean against when he's not in control of his body. I also did an image of him whistling as this acts like the tinder box and allows him to take control of the birds and enter the trance. After doing this i thought that i should show the process that the eyes take from normal into the trance. 

Wednesday 4th

After all the iteration of the last few days I put all my decision making to the test and make the model sheet for the shaman character using the face of the old native american, the clothing iterations i had made. Overall i think the character sheet came out really good especially as i drew it from eye not using any stock photos of people standing in the correct stances.

Tuesday 3rd

I focused on  more iterations today looking at what colour variations i could do with the fur around the cloak painting i did yesterday. I decided just to change the colour of the fur because of the fact that i really like the bland colour of the grey brown cloak as it looks like it could be leather from an animal on the planes that a native american would have lived on. I also thought that maybe the fur could change due to the animal that was hunted and the fur had came from. The other iteration that i had looked at today was the shaman eyes of my old native american. After looking at the black and white eyes i decided to go with the white eyes due to the fact that the native american's idea on shamanism is to walk amongst the spirit realm and so i thought white was more of a correct image choice over the black.

Monday 2nd

I spent today focusing on clothes design, as id decided that i was doing the shaman and he was going to be an old native american i decided to look at old native american trinkets and began with a neckless design. I ended up going with a wooden bird design as the neckless as I'm planning on making the native american spirits a big part of the design of my native american due to the fact that i might represent the dogs in the form. After i moved on to clothe design, i started with a civil war uniform design and a traditional native american outfit design. Once i'd finished designing each i decided to go with the traditional native american outfit as it didn't have as many constraints that the civil war uniform had. I then did a variety of outfit designs chose the best and made that in high detail adding in  the neckless as the focal point of the design. I then moved on to looking at the spirit animal for the design i chose two too sketch up quickly a wolf with three eyes for each dog which i felt was too on the nose and a falcon with eyes the size of tea cups. Due to the wolf feeling to on the nose i went with the falcon drawing it in colour not going into too much detail due to the size that the image would be but enough for depth. I also made the wings red that refers back to the red in the neckless. In the idea that maybe the native american carved it in the mind of the falcon.