QE Art and Design: Synoptic Project

Children's book illustrations. This blog is a record of my research, progress, photographs and descriptions of my work. It includes written elements that are essential for my sketchbook and for the benefit of the examiners. I will continue to update it as often as I can throughout the project or even adding more segments of information that I might have previously missed. Pictures uploaded onto the posts can be full-viewed by clicking on the image link.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Ink drawing from reference

Using DiTerlizzi's drawing of a Boggart, I re-enacted his character with ink, picking out the shape with continuous lines and then adding a wash of colour to it with watercolours.

The transparency of the colours give the character a convincing form, particularly the bottle, which appear to be see-through.

I built up the tone with layers of washes; the darker areas consists of a couple of layers of colour, whereas the the lighter areas only consist of one layer.