Tree Concept

This is our first concept painting for the trees. I have depicted the tree as if it were made of multiple people.  I attempted to make the forms more unrecognizable nearer the roots. This is to suggest that the soul trapped in the tree become more and more mutilated over time. 

Tree Sketches

These tree sketches are intended to reflect what we are doing with the character. We want to have it appear normal at first then reveal itself to be horrible.   

More Harpy Sketches

Over the past few weeks I have drawn a number of sketches for the harpy character. They mainly focused of the idea of transformation from something beautiful into something horrible.

Disguised Harpy Sketch

I have been experimenting with the idea that the Harpy is concealed in a guise of furtive beauty at first sight. However once it opens its wings its true grotesqueness is exposed.   

Harpy Sketches

These sketches are based on the idea that harpies represent some sort of corruption of motherhood. The fact that harpies are exclusively female and possess a maternal quality seems to hint at 'the monstrous feminine'.  I took inspiration from Louise Bourgeois’s giant spider sculpture.  A combination of elements from storks, bats and spiders were used to create these creatures.

Influence

Tree Sketches & Silhouettes

In order to create more distinctive shapes I used Silhouettes. I have used many different shapes derived from human anatomy, animal life, sea life, insects, etc. These silhouettes can be used as brushes and stamps in Dom’s landscape experiments.  

Branding

During the last days I've been working on Blog template, logo and indent. I tried to make it very illustrative and graphic since we are still trying to discover our style completely based on early Renaissance art.

I sketched out everything in my sketchbook with pencil and red ink just to keep it more natural, because work made from scratch in photoshop eventually becomes too clean at least for me.

In order to keep our indent as natural as our logo I decided to do it in a classical way, by drawing every frame on paper over light box with ink and pencils too.

Dante Drawing

This is a warm up Drawing by Domantas that he drew whilst listening to an audio recording of Dante’s Inferno.