ICA Poem Development

For the next stage I tried a number of different medias to experiment and see which kind I liked best and which I thought would be good to try use for my final drawing. I knew I wanted to try a traditional way of drawing for this project since I don't get to do this very often. Below are some drawings and paintings testing out different ways of getting my idea down. 

(Coloured pencil and felt til on watercolour paper) 

(Felt tip pen on plain white paper) 

(Coloured pencil on brown paper) 

(Biro and white pencil on brown paper) 

(Watercolour pencils, added with water on watercolour paper, drawn over with Biro)

(Watercolour pencil added with water on watercolour paper, read captions for different details on each drawing) 

(Marker pens and coloured pencils on white paper with fine liners)

(Coloured pencil and Biro on brown paper)

ICA Poem Chosen Design

Out of all my initial sketches I decided to pick the design shown below. I liked this one the best as it had more life and motion to it than the other designs. It looked like something was happening in the picture rather than people just posing for a photo. 

Next I did some sketches to see how I could improve this drawing, by trying different perspectives and points of views. 

ICA Poem Initial Ideas

These are my initial ideas from reading through the poem, I sketched down memories that sections of the poem reminded me of. 

ICA Poem

1 drawing in response to the poem by T.S. Eliot

This is an excerpt from Preludes, an imagery poem by T. S. Eliot. You can almost see and hear the horse steaming and stamping and smell the steaks:

The winter evening settles down

With smell of steaks in passageways.

Six o'clock.

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

And now a gusty shower wraps

The grimy scraps

Of withered leaves about your feet

And newspapers from vacant lots;

The showers beat

On broken blinds and chimney-pots,

And at the corner of the street

A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

And then the lighting of the lamps.

Creature Creation Possible Final

I made the changes requested and outlined it to make it really stand out. I still need to make some final changes but here is my creature so far. 

Creature Creation Development

Next we had to add fur or skin to our creature. 

The feedback I received was that I should move the back legs around so that if it was a silhouette then it would look better and be easier to understand what was what. Also that I should lose the background as it didn't help the character stand out. 

Creature Creation

We had to design a character starting from the skeleton. We had to come up with a new creature that could have parts of it taken from a number of different animals. Below are my first sketches.

Then the next stage was to add muscles onto our chosen design. This was very difficult to do as it had to work so we had to think about how the creature would move.