ruby hinton: illustration

Another 3d idea I had for my comic, in the story of the landlady, it describes billy weaver drinking a cup of tea that tastes like almonds (because it's actually has cyanide in it.) So I got a mug and draw one of my pages onto it, it was a very quick drawing but I enjoyed doing it. The following day I went into fabrication and asked them if I could fill the tea cup with coloured silicon to make it look like there was tea. The process was fun and easy and I'm definitely going to try it again.

Trying to think of more ideas and developing my panels I came across some building blocks shaped like houses. So in the end I made miniature streets of bath out of, I think they make a goodaddition to my work, along side my 2D work

working front cover of my book, the Landlady by Roald Dahl.

black layered of version of my last page in my book

black and coloured version of my map panel of my book, i added more chinagraph texture in my work to add more colour, negative space didnt work as well as this version

separate layers of my last page of my book, using the paper reference house as a net for this piece of work

i’ve been using alot of tracing paper and chinagraph pencils lately to make my pieces and its so much fun, this is tracing paper layers of my map of Bath, i decided to try a change of perspective in the map rather than a vertical birds eye view.

so using advice from my friend ella, i made my own georgian house, it’s good for reference and getting proportion of rooms in the house right.

trying out some colouring for the book, i drew out a picture of what i think the landlady’s house would look like and went with it, i really would like to now have a blue and yellow colour pallette in my book. im not sure about this colour of blue however, i need to look into colouring on photoshop and maybe buying some new pencils for my sketch books.

i feel that colouring is too flat especially with my style of working, separating the files into more limited palettes made me think that i should simplify what i’m doing with colours and focus more on the narrative itself.

7: Alfred hitchcocks cinematography and story boarding in the film Psycho,  with harsh lighting and contrast and a storyline that inspired roald to create his own strange motel.

it’s given me alot of ideas of what i can do with certain pages for my book i want to make, such as the train station being the first panel, and even using the map of Bath in the book.

i’m really excited to get on with this as its well descriptive and i’m excited to learn more about created narratives and experimenting with perspective and colour palettes. 

the audio to my interview with one of the owners of dighaushizzle, Edward Nicholas.

I looked around for more reference on taxidermy and I managed to find “Dig haushizzle”, an independent shop that sells refurbished furniture and Taxidermy. they have their own taxidermist that supplies quail chicks and budgies, she also put on a taxidermy course at the shop!

i decided to take a look around the galleries anyway, and alot of the artwork in their had a lot of one panel narratives, showing stories of multiple people.