Mid-Point Drafting

Here I have started to create a rough layout for the different pages I intend to create as a part of my final. I have also included the different styles of colour and shading that I will be using throughout my work. Also I have started to sketch some designs for the fox character in the children's book I hope to create, I will work on these ideas to help create a look for my main character.

Here I have started to create the introduction page by looking back to my storyboard and what I had decided to include on this page. I started by sketching out the three characters that would be wearing the different uniforms and then lined them within the guides I made earlier. I then drew out the poppy the would be on the opposite page and centred it using the guides.

At this point I had started to do this process with each of the pages, Adding in some of the character details and silhouettes, ready for when I start to add the backgrounds and text to the pages.

Character Drafting 'Foxy'

Using the initial drawings from my sketchbook I made a number of drawings of the main character of my book. I have drawn him in a number of different poses so I could just take these images and place them into the book. That way I wouldn't have to re-draw them each time. I also tested out the colouring style I used in my Mid-point Drafting and have decided that it would work well in a children's book as a child would feel comfortable seeing it, as they could have painted it.

Copy - Lord Frith (Watership Down)

For my first copy I have chosen to take a scene from the beginning of the 1987 film, Watership Down. I have chosen this as I love the style of the animation and the way that it works well with the story telling at the start of the film.

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To collect the image that I needed for my copy, I opened the film on my laptop and played it through until I found the right scene for my copy. I then took a screenshot and saved it to my desktop.

I then took the image that I saved into Photoshop and started to select the region for cropping the image down.

And when I was happy I cropped the image so it only showed the image from the film. Then using this image I started to create my copy. First I took samples of the different colours used by using the eye dropper tool and created a mark on a separate layer with each colour and organised them, so colours used together or overlapping would be grouped on this layer.

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Here are some screenshots showing the different stages of coping the image:

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And here it is! The Final Piece!