Adaptation B: Oliver Twist & Uriah Heep - Initial Designs

 

As I hadn't yet done nitial designs for Oliver and Uriah heep, I have done these designs in the same method as my other initial ideas. The reason for doing this is so that I can have all the buildings having an initial design and so it would make more sense in the crit on thursday. Obviously because of this these aren't that useful, but do give an idea of my own first ideas behind each of these two characters.

These were a lot more tricky compared to the other four and so they have very unrealistic body/building shape. As Oliver is different to the other characters in that he's the youngets and is genuinely nice and friendly, I wanted to show by drawing him differently by being less "skecthy" and being more smooth with the outlines and details.

When I progress with these designs, I should try to make Oliver look quite cute and innocent, and a character that the audience will like. Uriah Heep, on the other hand, should look ugly and quite mean, similarly to Fagin.

Adaptation B: Fagin & Mrs Gamp - Initial Designs

Using the same methods of editing and drawing as the other 2 initial designs, I have created my initial ides for Fagin and Mrs Gamp's Building. These were a little more tricky than the previous designs and so they took a bit longer to do. 

I wanted Fagin's building to be quite siister looking and being very crooked. I think this needs quite a bit more work to do as I think it's a bit too upright and isn't very scary. Mrs Gamp, however, is the opposite. I wanted it to look friendly, which I think it does. As Mrs Gamp will be looking after Oliver, it needs to look very 'caring'. When drawing this buildin, I was looking at images of cosy cafes as well as cottages. 

I'm quite pleased with the Mrs Gamp building as it looks friendly and, in that respect, is much different to all the drawings that I've done, so far. Like I said, the Fagin builidng still needs a fair bit of work done to it to make it look like how I want it to.

Adaptation B: Ebenezer Scrooge & Miss Havisham - Initial Designs

Following on from the previous post, I have done these quick designs for Scrooge and Miss Havisham. By looking at the shapes that I found and looking at the details of all the drawings, as well as drawing inspiration from specific shops, I have managed to produce two designs which I actually quite like.

For the scrooge building, Alan metoned the idea of the building being a bank, which is of course refering to the character's greed and lust for money. I wanted to keep the pose in tact, as I will intend to for all the buildings, but I wanted it to look like a bank also. The images of Banks nline all seem to have pillars running down them, and so I thought they could be in place of the legs. The arm holding the candle was based on Jack Skellington's house in Nightmare before Christmas. I then made sure that it looked like a building from the Dickensian era, which I personally think it does.

Miss Havisham was a little more difficult. I wanted to make her building a Wedding/Bride shop, but with a scary/haunted appearance. It's by no mean a 'nice' shop, but it's not particularly scary yet. I wanted to keep the building's shpe in line with the wedding dress that she wears and I think that shows.

On a somewhat different note, one of the things that I've always wanted in my work, or improved, is how pictures are presented. Often, and this is the case for posts in this project, I end up posting plain black and white line images. As I always draw on paper first then photograph my work, so I can edit it in Photoshop after. While doing this, it got to a point where it looked more interesting, I thought. I then changed the background colour to a very light brown. That is the image at the top of the post. I really like this and think it looks better than the one below. Hopefully, I can achieve the same effect with the other designs.

Adaptation B: Initial Sketches

 

First 4 Sketches

 Last 3 Sketches

I have done these 7 sketches to show the style that I'm going for. I started with the intention of designingthe building for Fagin, but when I noticed some of them didn't fit the character, I opted to just do random ones. I like my illustration style and so I decided to keep them in black and white, which also suits the Charles Dickens era, I think. I quite like these as they're quite abstract and unusual and so they will add a certain degree of character to the buildings.

All 7 Sketches