Layouts and Concept sketches continued




Here are two quick, dirty sketches of the opening scene for the desert. I haven't quite settled on a style, but I know the previous concepts were not the direction I wanted to go. These are on a better track. I'd like to complete 100 desert shots just to get a feeling for the atmosphere of the setting. I'm also having difficulties trying to get the mood and lighting needed for the opening shot. I have settled on the use of a down-shot.



And here is the truck interior where the first dialogue takes place. My newer sketches are taking lighting and mood into account. Now if only I can land on character designs. Later sketches in this post begin to arrive at a general idea of a character design.



I want a reaction from the driver as he sees her in the road. Now this is a borrowed pose from Watkiss, and no this isn't the character design I would like to have for the driver. I prefer a fatter model. The expression is really where I would like to take this moment in the story.



Here we have two ideas for how to pose Sarah Del Rey after she is hit by the truck. One, we have her form below the shadows of the terrorist characters off frame. The second idea has her sprawled out in the foreground with the terrorist characters in silhouette as the truck's lights shine on her body. I prefer the second pose.



Finally, we have the beginnings of a possible Terrorist #2 character design; the one who is most aggressive and assertive of them. I have more character design sketches to show in a separate post, but I would like to compare them with the yet-to-be-discovered character model sheets.

A concept for the branding of my pinkheap.com site. It features an illustration of many themes, in this case, a movement of Techtonic Plates on Earth, and points of interested pointed out to spell 'pink heap' in a clear way. The illustration here is crude, but I aim to create pristine illustrations on paper with graphite and charcoal.

A color test

It is shit, but worth posting just to remind myself to do more coloring on the computer instead. It's also giving me a feel for the desert landscape. I think I don't want to make it cartoony and fun, but hit on more of the desolation, flatness. Evoke a feeling of MIRAGE, perhaps.

1/2 of storyboard done on paper.

Wacom is nice only for details I'm finding.





Here is 10 minutes worth of work
I'm simply trying to find angles to begin this story idea, written by acclaimed writer, Andrew Wallace. Follow this process from sketch (which this blog has turned into, a collection of sketches), to the polished, final outcome. I am thinking a 3-4 color treatment. The first panel is a revised version of the panel next to it. I am looking for an upshot of the truck to introduce a dramatic, scarier tone for the scene. Bad dudes are in that truck!



10 more minutes of work

The first panel shows me struggling trying to find the exact expression I want with the hare reacting to the oncoming truck. I think I'm close with the 2nd panel on the right.



10 more minutes

Two ideas for the between-the-thighs shot. Man such bow-leggedness :(