holiday greetings :P

My scanner broke. Typical, I just get it running and it decides to konk out. These are all photos, some old, some new.

A thumbnail idea I quite like. It is a dome like castle on a hill. That looks like a bird lying in a nest.




Silhoutte corner number idea?









These are some sketches of how I think the story is going to pan out. Most of them are terrible, they are just there to give me an idea.









































Bird man in a cloak. Bird poo, and shaded face are details I'm playing with in these.





Jade. I was having trouble designing a head, I went through a few, but I really like this one.













This is a version of the fairy, which I actually really like. Very skinny, almost twig like, and the hair that permanently stands up (wings blow it up)












Another fairy idea, inspired by a real person. I forgot to rotate, just twist your heads...









Sketches of the Goblins. I REALLY like the big dumb. And the cat looked funny, so I kept it in there.








Assorted sketches. I dislike most of these, except a few. The cat I think is adorable though.

My Jayden and Jade, I don't like this Jade. But I really really like Jayden. The only problem is I had to colour it in that old program, so I had a lot of trouble, and am very limited in what I am capable of. But I don't mind how the colour turned out. It is the basic idea.

I really like Jayden with Purple eye




















This is a building drawing. I tried to get a feeling of how this 'castle' would feel in the forest. I actually really like how it turned out.This is some of my life drawing. This is an edit of that house , but I changed it to try and make it simpler, and more cagey...kind of worked.


These are some studies of different flowers, to see how they feel, and look. I also drew an old man I saw on the train today. Just to help myself see what ages someone.










fairy girl inspiration.

Some very very old sketches.

Style

This is my personal colour ideas for Justin's drawings. These are his drawings, but also the basic style that we've settled on. There is something that bothers me about the hungry goblin, so I will see if I can do an alternate copy in the same style.
I really like the design of the floating head.

Justin: http://jsbowenblog.blogspot.com/Brendan http://scaredfairies.tumblr.com/and Jaimi http://destroyed-chocolate.tumblr.com/


These are some real pencil, in lots of different styles. I actually quite like some of these.

These are some hungry Goblin designs. I don't really like any of them, except maybe the one with the big under jaw. And no, I didn't make the lines as bold as our style, but it's just a sketch.

Retro...images

Just to try it out...

I don't know how often my group checks my page. But there are some pages of Retro styles, just to see if I can inspire anyone. http://www.scribd.com/doc/11459584/Retro-Cartoon-114 Thanks Neil!

Fairy

I think these are the last of my images, which I have found very difficult to get onto the computer until now.

These are the good and bad version of the fairy. Although, I think we are not going to keep this evil version.

I was playing with how old the Cursed man (Endy) would be. My first sketch was actually him in the time before sophistication, like Adam and Eve, but then I decided that a little bit more modern (knight) would make him more appealing. The Knight in shining armour.

Original sketches

This was one of my original ideas for "Not Dennis". Since he lives with so many birds, his hair and clothes are covered with bird poo. The bird is a girl who was recently turned into a bird, she is reaching back for her love. The goblin really wants to eat the bird, but the bird man was faster. The poor man is unable to do anything, all he notices is that someone has come and taken his bird away, and so thinks that must be a bad guy.


















This is one of the forest creatures, who although is a giant toad, blends well with the environment. So it can come as quite a shock to someone who mistook it for a comfortable seat.

















This started out as a rough sketch, but turned into one of my favourite drawings. I don't think we are going to stick with this drawing, but I really like it.

Research

A night time sketch.








Some idea sketches













This a sketch I did of the Brisbane river. Just some observational drawings.














I was researching some flowers to see if there were any real ones were anything like the flower we wanted. On my short search I think the best flower is the one above, the "amaryllis".



















This is a picture of a building I spotted across the river. I thought it was a good idea for the castle.











These pictures were inside "A Third Poetry Book". The first one was from the poem "Legend". And the second one from the poem "the haunted lift". I thought these might be some inspiration to my group.


































These are some really old sketches I did in class, with the idea of lighting in mind.

Some good ideas I've seen. Quality doesn't matter, it's the idea:

Very dark hallway, with bright room at end: http://jkingdesign.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/20081221-drawing-for-lighting-designers-f2008.jpg

Similar, but not as extreme: http://jkingdesign.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/20081221-drawing-for-lighting-designers-f2008-1.jpg

Dark, silhoutted foreground people. Lighter Background: http://jkingdesign.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/20081216-drawing-for-lighting-designers-f20081.jpg

A boy with some morning light on him, his pencils in foreground: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3060/2437452404_2f8712f26c_o.jpg