The Hunt

Inspired by one of my favourite films (the original, not the remake) i've gone for another concept art sketchy style. Only trouble being, to get that loose feel and to see how little you can get away with putting into an image so the eye recognises stuff and creates the story for itself without having to draw in every leaf and reed, is actually really time consuming and quite hard.

So another late post, but i'm happy with the result, i like the use of light and shadow to reveal the characters and even the depth of filed seems to have worked out ok. there is a sense of drama in the composition and the flat colours help this, with the slight offset of the splash of red.

Created in Painter X, using photoshop to add in some of the background textures. Time taken....too long!

Somewhere....beyond the sea.....

Another unfinished piece...not sure where the time is going these days. The premise being a sort of children's book panel with the kid and his motley crew of a monkey and a parrot spotting a far of storm heading in the direction of their home made raft.

Not sure painter is the best medium, maybe a flat vector illustrator style would be best. I had in my mind a monkey island type style, with a low p.o.v that is almost half in the water, but it didn't seem to come out right, partly due to trying to render the storm clouds. Doing them in a realistic fashion didn't seem to be right whilst getting the three dimensional nature of them and the way they affected the sky colour was causing some headaches. So all in all spent more time on the background without getting the elements in the foreground fleshed out. I do like the messy nature of the sea colour though. One to revisit at a later date.