Exercises/Research
Starting off this process I practiced breaking forms down and then building them back up from a different position. This was pretty intuitive with the experience with 3d space from the last couple projects.
I ended up choosing the car in the top left as my subject of focus, I felt a connection to it and wanted to make it have some more tone in an actual piece.
Production
I had a couple ideas in my head that I originally wanted to do as renders in blender but thought they would work perfectly here. I started by thinking of as good mood for the image I already had in my head and I came up with “vast.” I wanted the scene to look like it had no end and this one frame could be repeated in the entire journey. I started sketching my first idea.
This was just to get my basic of the road down. I was going to do a bird’s eye view of the car driving down the road in the rain surrounded by trees.
I started by drawing the outer trees. Instead of drawing each individual tree I found it a better process to use a brush and spin it to create the depth in every tree. I really like how this part came out and definitely feel it represents the “vast” criteria.
Next I worked on drawing and texturing the road. I wanted it to look very soft and rainy and the white dots really help bring the sense of it being nighttime to this portion as they give highlights like streetlamps would. The stippling on the road helps give it a sense of depth and brings out that rainy setting.
I brought these two pieces together and this was the result, I really like how this came out and all I really had left was to draw the car in it.
This was my presketch and I liked the size and postion so moved onto texturing it and doing highlights on the ground for the headlights.
And this was my final piece for the “vast” criteria. I really like how it came out, I decided to dramaticize the viewpoint and texture rather than warping the subject too much in this piece. It fits the target mood quite well I think and it feels very emotional to me.
For my second piece I decided to go with the criteria of “pensive.” It took a minute to think of a view that would fit this well, I just went over different ideas in my head and didn’t like a whole lot of them until I thought of one that really fit the bill. I was going to do a wider stretched angle view of the front of the car with the driver looking ahead in thought.
This was a rough sketch of the view I wanted to go for and I quite liked it so I would end up just building on top of this for the rest of the piece.
Added a few details to expand on the environment.
Added a few more details and sketched the rain out to give an idea of the atmosphere.
From there I started my line work and texturing. I wanted these to be a lot different from the first to emphasize the different mood. The trees are what I think came out the best in this process and add to the effect of the drawing.
This ended up being my final rendition. I’m happy with it and it gives the feeling of pensiveness off very well from what I can tell. This process was pretty fun and straightforward to me honestly, it was interesting testing out compositions in my head and just being able to put those down to create a piece purely from imagination!
Final project: Reconstructed Drawings