My Concept

Brief Rationale

My creation myth is that the Americans (NASA) are taking the Dinosaurs from Earth to Mars and raising the Dinosaurs on Mars to support their Research of life on Mars. They are however discovered by the Russians (their rivals) that they have been doing this.

The colours I used were oranges and reds mainly because it illustrates the environment of mars better.

I decided to use more of a traditional style of media because I thought it suited my idea better with the slightly sketchy composition. The style of composition also suits the magazine that I would display my image in of New Scientist.

I used some visual hierarchy and scale with the arrangement of dinosaurs coming out of the American spaceship to add depth to the image. I wanted the dinosaurs coming out of the ship to be the focal point so they are bigger in scale than the other images in my image. The composition is slightly asymmetrical as I wanted to lead the eye from the dinosaurs coming out of the ship to the Russian astronaut seeing the dinosaurs.

I added a wired fence to show that the dinosaurs are being contained on mars. The astronaut closest to the ship is holding a pitchfork which represents their aggressive nature to the Dinosaurs and forcing them to live on Mars. I also added a western type house to represent the Americans creating a farm like atmosphere containing the Dinosaurs.

Final Image

3 Developed Thumbnails

First thumbnail developed towards the interim. Found out that the Image wasn't portraying my concept as clear as I thought so I went back to sketching more thumbnails and layouts to develop a clearer narrative. I however, liked the use of the Dinosaur being the focal point viewing the spaceship flying away back to earth.

Developed Thumbnail with the addition of a Russian astronaut finding out that the Dinosaurs are coming out of the spaceship. I tried to create a visual flow that lead the eye to the Russian astronaut ,but I found the visual flow of the composition was confusing how it weaved too much across the page and there wasn't a clear focal point. I also found out I needed to research more on the look of spaceships and the earth in space. This helped to improve the reading of my image.

Developed from the previous thumbnails I found that having the dinosaurs in a line out of the spaceship worked the best. I also added the western farm house fence and the addition of two astronauts. One riding a Dinosaur and one with a pitchfork. I wanted to show the Dinosaurs being forced to live there.

Final Image Draft

Developing Image towards Final

After the Critique I added some more subject matter that might add to the narrative and make my Creation myth clearer to the audience. I also wanted to create a better visual flow in the image because in my other image it was a bit confusing. I found that bits of the imagery also needed more detail and refining.
Developed the my image towards Final Image that I will add colour to later, was thinking of maybe using pen to darken areas and add shading. For the colour I was thinking of painting the image (analogue).

Photo of a development

Tried out some colours for the final image adding a redish tint. I think the colour of the farm house is too dark though. Thinking of painting final to have a more sketched hand drawn feel.

Colour Swatches for Final painted Image

Referenced Imagery

Images sourced from: www.google.co.nz

Searched for references when drawing

Stylistic Research- Pen illustrated

Found some images a the type of style I might want to try out on mine. I like the clean lines in the images drawn by pens.

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Developmental Drawings

 My concept developed into the americans put the dinosaurs on mars to support their research of life on Mars, and the russians discovered they were doing it.

Developed Thumbnails

Possible layout for final image

More Thumbnails/Drawings

Russian astronaut discovers the Dinosaurs Coming out of american spaceship

Referenced Subject Matter

Searched for some images of the different subject matter I might use and what they would look like roughly.

Images from: www.google.co.nz

Images searched astronaut,earth,dinosaurs,flags, space rover.

More Stylistic Research

Composition techniques/Drawing styles and colour use

From my Style research I decided that I wanted to go for a more book illustrated image feeling as I think that it has a more age related aesthetic that just as digitally drawn image. Also, I think it suits the dinosaur conspiracy and the New Scientist magazine better (choice of magazine).

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I like the colours and the contrast and also the use of only a few elements to create an image.

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I like how the illustration is around the text, so it kind of tells the story with the story in a way. I also like the drawings and simple colours used.

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I like the painting style and the colours. It sort of relates as I was thinking of doing something with aliens but changed to the Dinosaurs in space idea.

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I like the Simple drawing style and block colours. It is also cool how it tells the story through the use of many panels put together on a page.

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I like the dark colours because it sets the mood of the image as very dark. I also like the drawings and the shading within the characters and imagery. I think the composition is also pretty successful as the birds flying inwards makes the girls more of a focal point.

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I like how the imagery is centered but has a shadow line which guides the eye out of the page. I like the colours as well as the simple imagery as well as the smaller sized composition.

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I like the use of just 3 colours of black, white and blue. I think it tells the story of how god created the world pretty well.

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I like the colours and the subtle line use (not too defined shapes). The pattern and simple imagery also works well. The compostion tells a story upwards.

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I like the pattern the stars create with the space ships and also the colours and contrast between colours.

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I like the use of warm colours and the long narrative type style of telling the story. I was thinking of possibly incorporating this in mine but was sort of stuck on how.