The Quadruple (Part 3)

For this page I wanted to show the same four illustrations again but with all the images looking really happy with the ghost explorer and the lady. Though it was said it would be nice to just see them hand in hand going off to the next chapter of their life.

Though I then realised because of the issue with printing A2 that i'd have to decide whether to have this image or not and in the end I decided not for I think it's a weaker image than the page before which was the other page i was debating to lose.

Page 13

In this image I wanted to show that the lady was now dead and had found the ghost explorer so that they can be together.

Page 12

In this illustration I showed the lady throwing herself peacefully because she wants to be with the ghost explorer, I got the idea for this from the Twilight New Moon film where Bella tries cliff jumping and almost kills herself. I also wanted it to be a beautiful death without blood or breakage and that she does just die almost in her sleep with no pain.

Page 11

For this illustration I wanted to show the lady mirroring how the ghost explorer's feeling also mirroring his pose in page 10. At first I was going to have her sitting on the same rock she first saw the ghost explorer on, but that would mean the next page won't flow on as well so I had her sitting on the edge of a cliff.I was then told that it looked like she was sitting right on the edge of the cliff because of the creases on the dress so I removed the creases and it looked better and less on the edge.

The Quadruple (Part 2)

For this quadruple I used the same four illustrations but with slight changes to each one to show that the ghost explorer is sad, in the mountains and walking on water the whole image is darker, in the Cancinos and the Chimera they're sad with the ghost explorer. Another thing I was told would be a nice idea was if I made the fold out come out downwards because when he's happy the page folds out upwards so when he's down the page comes down.

Page 10

In this page I wanted to show the ghost explorer sad and just thinking about her. I used the same layout as the first version of page 6 but it worked more because he is in a different position.

But then I realised that if i used this version then i'd have to change the rock texture to the sedimentary rock. Once I did this I think it worked.

Page 9

For this page I wanted to make an illustration which was like the scene in the little mermaid where Ariel saves Eric and lays him down on the beach, though this is the beginning of the ghost explorer feeling sad and realising that he and the beautiful lady can't be together, like a nautical Romeo and Juliet.  

Page 8

In this scene I wanted to show that the lady is slowly drowning and dying but not yet dead. To do this I used the same technique I did with drawing the ghost explorer but didn't turn down the opacity as much to show she's slowly 'fading away'.

Page 7

In this page I wanted to show a long shot of the ghost explorer and the lady swimming down to the bottom of the sea. Again I used lines to show the depth of water.

Page 6

This is the iconic image I had in my head of the ghost explorer looking and falling in love with the woman on the shore. I took me a little while to work out the balance of the page because I wanted him to be underwater looking up at her and her above water looking down at him. In the end I had her standing on an outlying rock so you could also see the rock under the water.
The real challenge was to get the lady looking beautiful and also her dress looking like it was blowing in the wind but after playing around with the look of the dress I think it works. Once this was done I used the cream colour of the ghost explorer as her colour sort of saying she's like light /sunshine/ goodness/ goddess.

Page 5

In this illustration I wanted to see him generally walking near or on the shore exploring. In the story boarding process I made three versions of the page but I went with him walking underwater on the shore so that it flowed into the next page easier. When making this page I had to work out how to illustrate two new things - the underside of the surface of the sea and sand. For the underside of the sea I used the vine pattern I usually draw but with the lines further apart which worked and for the sand I used the technique I used in Larus Island with dots and to show perspective I made the dots get closer and closer together as you go further into the distance.

Page 4

For this page I wanted to show the ghost explorer reclining in his home on the bottom of the sea. I found getting the right positioning to show him reclining really difficult because he is a silhouette but I was able to use his aura to define his parts.

But once I made this page I was told it wasn't obvious of what it was so I redrew the entire illustration again with him laying flat on the rock instead of on an angle.

Also I was told that I needed to define what was deep sea and what was rock so I made a pattern which looked like sedimentary rock.

The Quadruple (Part 1)

For this group of illustrations I wanted to have foldout pages in the book and lay the images out like the illustrations in 'We're Going On A Bear Hunt' long and thin across four pages. In the four illustrations I wanted to show some of the explorations the ghost explorer that would also tie him in with other 'tails' I had written.
Like him visiting Cancinos in the centre of the earth.

And seeing The Chimera from the Tail of the Edward Magpie and his crew of Thee Stultifera Navis from my second year contextual module.   

But I also wanted to show him in places that I want to write about in the future, like him exploring the great under water mountain range. Also, like all my work I wanted to have a bit of parody in there as well so I illustrated him walking on water like in the iconic image of Jesus. 

Once I made the image I realised I could make them like a wall of achievements of the ghost explorer so I designed frames for each image. 

Then I laid them out on an A2 sheet ready to be printed. 

Though once I took them down to the printers they informed me that they couldn't print A2 double sided which I needed because I needed other pages from the book printed on the back, so I changed the layout of the sheets so that they could be printed on A3 which could be printed double sided. 

Page 3

I wanted for this page that once the mortal version of the ghost explorer dies and becomes the ghost explorer he becomes more, like a superhero with the pose of a strong hero like Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.
I also wanted to show that he has sunk deeper down in the sea from the last page so I made the lines uniformly close which I think communicates this.

 

Page 2

When I saw this illustration I knew this is the look I wanted for this page with the ghost explorer, in human form, falling into the sea. The difficulty with this image was to show he's just fallen into the sea with the use of bubbles.

Looking at reference images of people diving into water helped to work out where the bubbles would look like and what area of the body would cause the most amount of friction therefore the most amount of bubbles.

 But the white I put behind the bubbles was too solid so I then was shown how to soften it to make it look more natural, which worked a lot more.

Also another way I thought of showing that he's just fallen into the sea was to drawn horizontal lines slowly getting closer together as you go down the page going into black.

Page 1

For this page I just wanted to make a pattern that would show a storm/ tempest. I wanted to make a beginning like in Shakespeare's Tempest. I remember seeing this video when I was younger and the images and the name have stuck with me since, especially the scene with the actual storm.

In the end I illustrated many wild waves all crashing in multiple directions. I then decided i'd see how my black and white image would look with a colour dropped in. Though in the end of the process I was thinking about making the book greyscale and printing it on hand made paper to make it look like an old antique book.

The colour I chose ended up working though the black line didn't show through clearly when I turned it greyscale so I made the line white to show all the 'white horses'.