Final unique horn photographs

Here are the final (un edited) Photographs for my narrative illustration. Next i will arrange these photos how i want them to be in the book and add things such as speech bubbles and other things that need adding in. I have also made a few images that aren't 3D they are just drawn and scanned in these are also going into the story but i will just add them in to the final stage of arranging the book. 

Photo story board

As i have almost finished all of the drawings for my book but i haven't quite sorted all of the backgrounds out yet, I decided to photograph how the scenes will look but using a plain black background for now. This is what i have so far. I have the last few scenes to draw out and the backgrounds to set up then i'm ready for the final photographs to be took. 

Pony falling into the bin :(

I was going through the different scenes in my story and thinking about how i could create them using drawings and photography. There is a part in my story where the pony finds a bin to hide in. I was thinking about how i could improve this part of the story to make it more interesting. I decided to create a little bit of comedy and have the pony struggling to climb into the bin and then it would fall in. I found a little metal bucket that i thought would work perfectly as a prop for a bin. To make it clear that the bucket was a bin i cut out the word bin and stuck it to the front and i think it worked really well because it makes it a bit more fun. I then started drawing the pony in a position that made it look like it was climbing up the side of the bin. It was hard to imagine what a pony would  look like doing this because horses or ponies don't (to my knowledge) regularly scale the side of things. I think it turned out looking exactly how i wanted it to though. 

The next image is the pony falling head first into the bin. This was even harder for me to imagine so i wanted some reference to draw from. I didn't want to spend a long time looking through pictures online so i asked my friend Arron to fall into the bin so i could get more of an idea of how to position the body and legs. this helped a lot i took some photos and did a few sketches before drawing the final image. I think it turned out really well and shows clearly what is happening. 

This scene has worked out really well so far all i have to to now for this section is decide what is going to be in the background of the image. I am really pleased with how the images are turning out so far and i think the simplicity of the characters makes them stand out really well against the other props and backgrounds that i am using. 

Illustration test shots

For my current narrative project as i am creating my illustrations in real life and then photographing the drawings in different compositions i couldn't decide weather i wanted my images to be in real backgrounds or drawn backgrounds. One day i was just sat thinking about it when Amy suggested that i try a few of the different options out to help me decide. She lent me her camera so me and a few class mates helped to create some little scenes to do some test shots in. Here are some of the photographs that we took. 

I absolutely love how these photos have turned out and i have decided that i am definitely going to have my drawings in real background sets that i have made out of found objects. The next step that i am going to take is to sit down and decide on what objects that i can use to create the different scenes from my story. I will then get all of the things together and create the sets. 

I won the Great British Bake off!! (sort of)

I decided to do a little post about last week as it was a little but different to most weeks So yeah as the week was just going on as 'normal' (if you can ever have normal on our course) and it got to Wednesday and because my teachers are a little bit crazy they had set up something called the 'Great Illustration Bake off.' This was where my class went and baked cakes and decorated them to match the illustrations that we are currently working on, It was so fun!! Our team made vanilla cup cakes and it was very messy to say the least. There was cake mix and icing sugar EVERYWHERE!! so yeah we all got on with decorating our cakes. I decided to make an ice cream cone unicorn horn because there is one in the story that i am illustrating! i was basing it off the little sketch that i had previously done as part of character development below :) 

I used pink icing that i had made for the ice cream, and put an ice cream cone on top of it. Okay so it wasn't the most complicated of designs but I WON!!!  I think it was because i had thought a but more outside of the box instead of just drawing a design onto the top of the cake. Everyones designs were really good and it was a lovely fun little afternoon. So yeah i didn't win anything physically but it was nice anyway. Here are some pictures of the finished cake and some other photos from the day.

The winning cake!! MMM

Me with my cake!

The lovely class with all of our cup cake creations 

Overall it was a really good afternoon and it was great to do something that was creative in a different way for a but of a change.