Picture Book | Material Tests pt. 2

Making pictures to try methods, materials, and certain aesthetic traits.

Some drawings based off collected reference imagery. Objects were drawn quickly, and are loose in character. Although I made an effort to not place too much focus on accuracy, just by focusing on the shapes and components of the boat and not, for example, the straightness of the lines or angles, I think you can see they are based off something from real life.

Layers, texture, opacity, overlapping, colours. All of these things could be explored further digitally.

Carrying on with texture. Making large surfaces of textures that can be made into something else. Here I used ink and added water, let the ink bleed, removed some with tissue and other brushes.

Tracing paper template, with the separate cut out pieces.

Finished shape with small details added in a white pen. The complexity of the texture compensates for the simple outline of the whale. The inky surface stands out well against a background of solid colour. I wonder if this approach would work with other objects in the story.