Showing posts with label Nursery rhyme inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nursery rhyme inspiration. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 May 2015

AD33, Nursery rhyme inspiration

For the nursery rhyme project I wanted the images to be very detailed and textured, naturally through experimentation with other images I started to refine a way of working which seemed to look quite Victorian and I liked it. Whilst I was drawing my characters out for the first nursery design (Hey Diddle Diddle) I was looking at Lane Smith's work quite frequently.

The Stinky Cheeseman is a fantastic book illustrated by Smith and I feel that it really helped to inspire that way that I made these images.



This style is really rustic and I love it, Lane makes a lot of cool effects by mixing washing up liquid in with her painting media and it gives this really nice speckled effect. This was something that I wanted to work on throughout this module, I wanted to spend an afternoon or two just throwing things onto a canvas and making a mess.




Keeping within the same theme I found this awesome version of 'There was an old lady who swallowed a fly' illustrated by Jeremy Holmes, who might I add is really good at what he does!
This made me want to try my hand at photo montage, it seemed to suit the kind of style I was going for and it added that extra creepy edge to it.



Speaking of creepy I also remembered the end credits for the film 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' and how much I loved them. Everything looks like one big stage production and even the characters themselves are portrayed as set props moving to the command of the composer.
I have added in the video link below, please take a moment to watch it, they truly are some of the best end credits I have ever seen!