Assignment four: Magazine Illustration

I chose an illustration of the topic of "lost".  I wanted to work on the idea of a lost teddy. Armed with a teddy keyring, who looked not particularly happy, I placed it in various places in the house where it could look lost and sketched it.

Examples of sketches

Unfortunately, light pencil drawing doesn't show very well here, so I have made a small selection from many sketches.

                                                                                                                                      

 I worked a bit more on this sketch, in pen, watercolours and charcoal after the first round of pencil sketches.


I worked on the idea of making an image of a bear lost on a mountain of bricks, with  emergency rescue mice trying to help.

I remembered the images of Richard Scarry and thought my mice should do things and get into funny situations to make it more interesting for children.

I originally thought I would be able to make mice like this one, and would be able to put them in a cube landscape digitally. However, my scanner stopped working. I now decided to make an image with drawing and painting. I remembered a previous exercise where the image was too crowded with characters, so after my pencil sketch, I reduced the number of mice. Perhaps this is not sorted out yet, but it gives a good idea of what direction I would work towards ideally.

For some reason, I can't add my pictures here. I will now try to start a new page and put them there.