I created a watercolour gingerbread town house to replace fine liner version which didn’t fit in as well, this one suits the rest of the image better.
This composition is my chosen one for the final crit after looking at it with Luke and other students in my final tutorial. I will make create handwritten typography to replace the Moon Flower font I am using at the moment, this will suit the illustration better I think.
Details:
Using Photoshop I started to compose the elements from my sketchbook together to test composition, colours and see which elements did/didn’t work together.
I started by using the black and white backgrounds I created in my sketchbook.
I then used my modern gingerbread town house with it being the only colour in the image thinking it might look good if the only colour element was the biggest focal point.
I then tried a traditional gingerbread house in replacement with a collaged chimney smoke. I experimented with a border and a text element too but I thought the text would be best done by hand.
I also tried the border being rigid but I preferred the watercolour border inst
Next I thought about adding more colour into the image, starting with a green forest.
After this, coloured grassy hills.
I played around with the colours of these.
Next I thought to maybe make the people solid colour cut outs but I didn’t like these as much.
I overlay colour onto the pencil and watercolour people which I thought worked better, I think if I use this method I will colour all the people differently and make them all unique.
I played with putting the townhouse back into this composition, unsure of what worked better.
After this, I played with putting hand written text into the image.
Below is a black and white version with a Photoshop block colour floor.
Blue evening sky with a light shine coming from the house.