For our first week we decided to tackle the Kings
in the story. There are two kings in the story, one at the beginning and one
closer to the end of the story. I was to do the first and Karol was to do the
second.
I started off with some silhouettes trying to find some interesting
shapes that I liked. I enjoy this method as it allows me to imagine
what would be inside that shape. It also allows me to think of the outermost shape and not have to worry building from the inside out. It frees your mind to make the outer shape interesting and unique.
After this I started sketching. Karol and I both
wanted to go back to trying some traditional methods for parts of this project
as it's what got us into art in the first place and we spend a lot of time
using digital methods. I began with some head studies, looking at head pieces
the King might wear. These were great as I could come up with lots of elaborate, random
shapes and sizes. I didn't have to worry to much about proportions for now.
I then began sketching some more full bodied
kings, the whole time thinking of some of my prefered head studies. What
appealed to me the most of my sketches were the one's where the King looked a
bit mad.
I imagined that after years of living surrounded
by the forest that the king would slowly have started to lose his mind. He
lives in constant paranoia that the forest surrounding his castle will swallow
him and his people up next as it did his huntsmen. After my explorations I
thought it would be cool to have the king dressed in pieces of the forest,
trying to show that he controls nature when in fact it's always the other way
around. His crown is now full of feathers, twigs and plants, and he wears the
skins of the animals his huntsmen have brought back from the forest to try and
convince himself the he rules over the forest. I wanted to try and make him
look more imposing than he actually is. Maybe he wears bigger cloths and sits
in a massive throne made of sharp and twisted wood from the forest to give this
impression?
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