I am happy to say that i have completed a pretty solid rough draft today and it's all taking shape. I am going to go into some hard core revision work to get it as good as i can then have it edited by people I trust. In the mean time I have some more images to produce and I hope to have it all put together by the end of August if not sooner..
Melvin surprised me as he did some unscripted actions while I was writing. I know it sounds crazy but when you write the characters actually become alive and they do things and you just record it as fast as you can. Sometimes they do stuff you do not keep but other times they do stuff that is worth keeping and can make the story better..
It sounds weird I know.. but it's true.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
7/10/2010
It's been a while since I have been able to post. However, I have been working on concepts and trying to keep at it.
Lately I have been trying to tackle some hard compositions that require more planning and thought. I have come to some pretty good solutions but they still need some tweaks.
I am posting many of the concepts I have come up with and will explain them.
The hardest portion of my story to depict is an area of the woods where the animals get banished to. It is basically like Skid Row. I had initially envisioned it as a vast place full of animals, bugs and basically any things that entered the garden and got thrown out. I researched battle fields of the Civil War and used that for inspiration. However I did not like the overall feeling of this.
I also wanted this scene to be a change of perspective for Melvin and also the reader. So the image needed to change the view point literally for both participants in the story.
These first concepts are of the battle field point of view. Obviously I would need many more "wounded" characters but i only added the key ones..
This first idea puts Melvin face to face with the outcast animals, however, none of them are wounded or injured so even though I initially liked this Idea I felt it was not useful to my story.
This image is more of a wide shot of the battlefield and shows wounded animals. I determined this was impersonal and also was more from a neutral point of view not the wounded soldiers point of view or Melvin's POV. So it was not useful either.
This image I was pleased with because it changed the POV to the animals and made Melvin enter into their world. I liked it so much I inked and rendered it but after wards I was not happy with the final result so I "trashed" it as well..However, the composition is more what I am looking for over all. What made it more successful is I huddled the injured around a single tree to make it more intimate. I dropped Melvin into the scene from a distance to minimize him and bring him into their world. In this shot he is disrupting their world and let's him see a side of life he had not seen before.
Building on the last composition I redrew it and focused on the expressions of the wounded animals. I wanted them to be aware of Melvin's intrusion into their world. I want it to be funny but also serious in nature.. I have not rendered it yet.
Injured Animals
The Garden Bot does not have any patience for pests in the garden. Anything that enters into the garden is quickly thrown out.. Here are some concepts I have for injured animals. I have the line drawing and the rendered drawing side by side:
Melvin Enters the Garden
Here is a concept of Melvin entering the garden after it has been guarded by the garden Bot.
Intruder Alert!
Garden Bot does not like intruders....
Melvin Go Home!!
Random Picture of Melvin holding the Garden Bot like a newborn baby.
Some times images just happen and this one turned out kid of special.
Lately I have been trying to tackle some hard compositions that require more planning and thought. I have come to some pretty good solutions but they still need some tweaks.
I am posting many of the concepts I have come up with and will explain them.
The hardest portion of my story to depict is an area of the woods where the animals get banished to. It is basically like Skid Row. I had initially envisioned it as a vast place full of animals, bugs and basically any things that entered the garden and got thrown out. I researched battle fields of the Civil War and used that for inspiration. However I did not like the overall feeling of this.
I also wanted this scene to be a change of perspective for Melvin and also the reader. So the image needed to change the view point literally for both participants in the story.
These first concepts are of the battle field point of view. Obviously I would need many more "wounded" characters but i only added the key ones..
This first idea puts Melvin face to face with the outcast animals, however, none of them are wounded or injured so even though I initially liked this Idea I felt it was not useful to my story.
This image is more of a wide shot of the battlefield and shows wounded animals. I determined this was impersonal and also was more from a neutral point of view not the wounded soldiers point of view or Melvin's POV. So it was not useful either.
This image I was pleased with because it changed the POV to the animals and made Melvin enter into their world. I liked it so much I inked and rendered it but after wards I was not happy with the final result so I "trashed" it as well..However, the composition is more what I am looking for over all. What made it more successful is I huddled the injured around a single tree to make it more intimate. I dropped Melvin into the scene from a distance to minimize him and bring him into their world. In this shot he is disrupting their world and let's him see a side of life he had not seen before.
Building on the last composition I redrew it and focused on the expressions of the wounded animals. I wanted them to be aware of Melvin's intrusion into their world. I want it to be funny but also serious in nature.. I have not rendered it yet.
Injured Animals
The Garden Bot does not have any patience for pests in the garden. Anything that enters into the garden is quickly thrown out.. Here are some concepts I have for injured animals. I have the line drawing and the rendered drawing side by side:
Melvin Enters the Garden
Here is a concept of Melvin entering the garden after it has been guarded by the garden Bot.
Intruder Alert!
Garden Bot does not like intruders....
Melvin Go Home!!
Random Picture of Melvin holding the Garden Bot like a newborn baby.
Some times images just happen and this one turned out kid of special.
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