During the spare hour I get an evening to be creative after work I sat down with my friends the pencil, pad, ruler and perspective. (sounds terribly sad to be referring to those things as my friends :/ ) and started to think about how I wanted it to look. I created a few thumbnails and came to this. It is only basic shapes at the moment but it will get developed when I have the time. Looking at it I thought it all looks a bit boring. I want the theme of the image to be tall and overwhelming which was not the effect I was achieving at this point. I watched some videos on composition and came to the decision of lowering the horizon line to give the overlooked feel.
While having a browse over the net I did a bit of research on coastal and sea defences as I want to create a kind of watch tower/front line defence made out of waste materials, much like everything is in 3rd world slums. I found that almost everything has a purpose and can be used in some way or another to benefit a new owner. Also looking into coastal/sea defences I found images like this that though they are trying to protect the land they also look particularly offensive which is what I want to reproduce.
So I continued with the dodge sketching and came up with this, im looking to create a sort of rugged camp out post or guard tower. I want to create a kind of favela type scene, having the structures made up from anything possible, taking reference from distric 9, brink and maps from call of duty.
okk so I decided on an idea to work on, I came up with this sort of gate house tower idea that came about from the photo's I took. This is just one real rough sketch at the moment but its something I''ll look to develop over the next few days
For these sketches, sketches being the key word here I've come up with a few ideas after studying the photos I took at Dungeness. Some to begin with I started taking components from a selection of photos and sort of pieces them together on paper, slowly I worked my way on to focusing on one object and trying to enhance it be it though mood or the impression it gives. These are just a few rough ideas that I'll now take elements from and go onto create more initial sketches for one particular image.
While having a browse over the net I did a bit of research on coastal and sea defences as I want to create a kind of watch tower/front line defence made out of waste materials, much like everything is in 3rd world slums. I found that almost everything has a purpose and can be used in some way or another to benefit a new owner. Also looking into coastal/sea defences I found images like this that though they are trying to protect the land they also look particularly offensive which is what I want to reproduce.
