Week 3: Brainstorming
In week three I started compiling a list of artists who I found inspiring to get a clearer idea of what my illustrations could look like.
I enjoy this artists’ balance of rendering.
This artist has an incredible talent for illustration, composition and rendering that has inspired me.
This artist draws at a level I think I can achieve, in a style that I find really appealing. Her illustrations express a lot while not being overly complex, something I would like to do too.
This artist creates great outfit concepts that I find really inspiring.
This artist does amazing thumbnailing work, in a mix of rendering level. This artist serves as my main inspiration for my thumbnailing process.
This artist painted incredible scenes with an amazing amount of detail. Edmund Leighton is one of my favourite artists for his amazing use of lighting, shading, colours, composition, symbolism and anatomy.
This artist creates incredible renders of costumes and detailed thumbnails.
This artist makes great landscape concepts, and while I don’t think I’ll be able to achieve anything similar, I think that this would be an inspiring starting point.
A. A. Milne is one of my biggest inspirations, and when I look at his illustrations of Christopher Robin and his posing, proportions and gestures, I can picture my protagonist very clearly. I hope to capture a similar feeling of childhood in my illustrations of her.
The movements and expressions of 50s-90s 2D Disney animation is how I imagine my character would express, with a very emotive face and overexaggerated gestures. The Sword in the Stone also depicts Arthur Pendragon, a child King (much like my own protagonist) with similar proportions to how I imagine her. He also wears comically large clothes and wields a sword too big for him, to exaggerate his youth and inexperience, much like I imagine my protagonist feels.
I’m very fond of the symbolism in religious stained glass, so I’ve included a compilation here.
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