Sunday 20 October 2013

'At the Mountains of Madness' Thumbnails (1)

'At the Mountains of Madness' Thumbnails (1)

Here are my first set of thumbnails for my H.P. Lovecraft novel 'At the Mountains of Madness'. As I said in my previous posts I prefer the traditional method of thumbnail drawing and jotting down ideas although it would probably be wiser to use this as an opportunity to practice on my photoshop painting, but for the limited time we were given to do these thumbnail drawings this method is best suited for me. feedback please!


3 comments:

  1. 7 is nice and moody (not sure about the penguins - bit too cute for Lovecraft maybe!) and 8 and 9 are interesting. You'll want to avoid any overt creature design stuff, because the emphasis of the project is on places and spaces. You're right though, you should be grasping the potential of a new tool and making the most of new things - that said, the 'scratchy' quality of your thumbnails does lend a sinister aspect to your Lovecraftian world - reminds me of the drawings of Harry Clark:

    http://ucarochester-cgartsandanimation.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/supplement-harry-clarke.html

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  2. 8 and 9 are interesting for the skewed camera angle (would be called a dutch angle in cinema) - it's a tried and tested shorthand for "creepy/odd", so could definitely work for lovecraft. You might want to try it a bit more (just be careful of overusing it)

    6 is nice and creepy, although the tentacles are possibly a bit too "creature design-y" (like Phil says). However, that doesn't mean you can't use the idea for a set design - remember that you're not restrained by the laws of physics, so you could quite happily have twining black fog, or unnaturally dark/wrongly placed shadows emerging from the depths of the cave mouth.

    As for working digitally - you don't have to abandon this style (like Phil says, it works pretty nicely for lovecraft) - try using a hard round brush with just opacity controlled by pen pressure, and you should be able to get fairly close to this scratchy aesthetic

    Anyway, it's great to see more work - don't stop posting

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  3. There's something about number 2 that I really like, as if tentacles are reaching out for the plane :)

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