First image: Leaving for war

I decided to use basic line work for the outline and I didn't include too much detail as the images target audience is children. I then decided to use flat subdued colours as I felt it complemented the line work best. The colours, I feel, represent how it might have been on the actual day that the soldiers left. This is the image that I have came up with, there are some finishing touches that need to be done, but it is almost complete. 

Soldiers leaving for war

As I have to draw the soldiers leaving for war I decided to do some research into images that were taken in world war one of the soldiers on the trains leaving to give me an idea of what everything looked like. Here are some images that I found on the internet. 

image taken from:  http://www.iwmprints.org.uk/image/743748/
lewis-g-p-soldiers-onboard-a-leave-train-heading-
out-from-victoria-station-london-during-the-first-world-war

Image taken from: http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/evocative-images-of-lost-toronto.11018/

To create my image I will think about all of the different elements of these scenes and put them together to create an image that really tells a story of what is happening. 

Street party at the end of world war one

Here are a few images that I found on the internet of street parties that happened at the end of World War One. Hopefully this will give me some ideas for my illustration of the street party.

Image taken from http://gn.northumbria.ac.uk/gn/exhibitions/engage/

Image taken from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
news/uknews/royal-wedding/royal-wedding-pictures
/8411756/Street-parties-through-the-ages.html

Image taken from: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10456#.VX2v-FxViko

Summer Project: Heugh Battery Illustrations

I have left university for the summer but I am going to keep using this blog to keep track of research and bits and pieces that I am doing for projects that I am doing. Its just easier for me to have a place to refer back to where everything is kept together rather than seeing something then not being able to find it again. I will also keep track of all my thoughts and ideas so I know whats what. The project that I have going on at the moment to create 6 illustrations for a World War One illustration exhibition at a museum in the Headlands. My friend has a placement at the museum and she has decided to ask me to create some illustrations for an exhibition. I have had 6 basic outlines given to me for the illustrations this is the information that I have been given so far:

• The first one is at the beginning of the war when it was declared everyone had a street party to celebrate so some sort of celebration in the street.
• The second one is when men leave for war on a train.
• Third one is women had to go to work in garages and there was a royal women's Air Force so I was thinking maybe a women stood in front of an old style plane.
• The fourth one is lights out at dark like no street lights or car lights so the bombers can't see the towns or cities.
• Fifth one is of people sitting in an air raid Shelter.
• The last one is the war is declared over so a load of people stood round celebrating again with maybes a person speaking at the front haha. 

The exhibition is aimed at children and I have all creative freedom over the style and way that I approach this project. My next step is to research for all of the imagery and  create thumbnails. Then I will just go on from there.