Harpie Doodles

Here are two quick harpie sketches. As soon as I will get some feedback, I wll be able to make a proper concept.

Harpy Nests (Part I)

I took one of the developed thumbnails and started adding some more detail connected to the text, but still kept everything very loose and suggestive. I might continue on this piece tomorrow.

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.  

Thumbnail Developement (Part II)

At this point some paintings are starting to look more like a forest. I'm not too concerned about detail until I'll be done with the compositions of each painting. First and second thumbnails seems to be finished compared to the others and they are ready to go to the next stage.

Thumbnail Developement (Part I)

After last conversation with Phil we decided to make as many rough thumbnails as possible to help us out. In these thumbnails I started throwing random ideas that could visualise the forest from the 13th Canto. It is a mix of my own painting and random pictures from the internet. This should help us to decided on color scheme and will create further designs as happy accidents, because there is a minimal amount of description of what we want to show. Later on I will try to push these forward and see how it works.

Influence Map: Trees & Thorns

Trees are a key feature in Canto XIII. Dante mentions that they have leaves and thorns but there is not a lot of description beyond this.  It could even be said that the trees are not in fact trees at all. Trees could merely be how Date interpreted what he saw.  I have been looking at twisted and bizarre trees that have a vague anatomical and twisted look to them.

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.