Thursday 29th

As i want to keep to some form of a formality In the civil war uniform i.e keeping them very standardised and keeping in line with regulations. So some where i thought i could maybe be a little creative and something that is of great importance as it represents the tinder box is the drum so are below are some drums looking a traditional native american drum iterations and some civil war drummer boys drums.

Tuesday 27th

Today i focussed in on my face paint doing in colour on the black and white faces. I then decided it was time to bring my character to life painting in skin colours and the white hair and eyes for added shaman affect, I'm really happy with the way they turned out with some real life and character.

Monday 26th

The last few days I've spent doing more silhouetes looking at the witch character as some food for thought. I decided the way i could interpret this character into my time period could be to use her as a native american shaman that talks to the wolfs. I did some silhouettes and one that looks rather similar to the guy i did with drum from my previous post. After this i decided i wanted to do a guy for sure, i just wasn't sure on wether or not to i wanted him to be young or old so i did some silhouetted faces of an old native american and a young native american. Later i did some musical instrument silhouettes due to the fact i know that i want my native american to be using the instrument like the way the tinder box works in the book. I have now been working on some different hair styles and face paints and i also decided that i wanted to go with the older native american due to the fact i really want that to be the feel of painting making him more ancestral rather than young.

Tuesday 20th

The final task is to create a character that is from the time periods we have been given my time period is 1800s America. The character however has to be from the book Hans Christian Andersen's "The Tinderbox", that character then has to be taken into our time periods. Some of the characters that stood out to me are the soldier, witch, the dogs and the princess. Below are some initial silhouettes the soldiers are some soldiers from American Civil War i also did some soldiers in the form of Indians these could also be perceived as the princess too.

Monday 19th

I spent today working up my model sheet. Im not initially happy with my model sheet, if i get any spare time at the end of the project i will probably spend it on this making it better and working up each visual direction and making them closer to the concept art finished version than the sketches at the beginning of the project but the next task is here and i need to move on.

Sunday 18th

The past few day were spent finishing the final concept art image of the snow globe. I really like how the image came out in the end. I may come back to this image later to add some background or maybe some text describing the snow globe as I'm not entirely happy with the white space around the object but i really do like the image as a whole.

Thursday 15th

I spent the last couple of days working up the image with colour and giving the entire image a grounded look, although i did make an artistic choice which was i wanted the image to look like a snow globe and is why i have give bricks a very marshmallow effect. Instead of a more realistic effect with lots of little bricks. When getting to the top and drawing up the cogs i decided i wanted to do a couple of colour variations to see what suited best, i also added more cogs for depth and then grounded the image with some large bricks on top. After doing the colour variations i went in favour of the gold as it popped the most and added some colour where it was needed most.