Concept: Character Final Painting

The background of this painting did not turn out as well as the background of the timepiece final painting. I wanted to try something different and have the path trail off into the distance, however I did not do this well. I wanted to show the light coming from behind the figure and that she is walking into the woods which would be obscured by darkness.
I did paint in trees between the larger ones in an attempt to show an understanding of Aerial Perspective, however they did not come out in the JPEG image.

Concept: Character Character Sheet

This is a Character Sheet for my version of the Witch from the Tinderbox depicting her in various parts of the story. It shows how she interacts with the soldier, holding herself up higher than usual as shown in her standard pose whilst sitting. This is because she still has her pride and wants to maintain the class she once had. The third figure shows her at the end of the story.

Concept: Character Model Sheet

This is the Model Sheet for my character.

Concept: Character Base Colour Iterations

These basic colour concepts were so that I could get a rough idea of what base colour I wanted before adding the shading to make the clothing look degraded or worn. This is in addition to me having changed the dress and hair to a more ragged design already.

Concept: Character Hair Iterations

I tried to create designs with elegance, which suggests an upper-class nature to the woman. After I decided on the style I would then go on to make the hair look more rough and displaced to give the idea that she no longer holds the position she used to.
I chose the dark red hair as it was more interesting than the black and brown, and I wanted it to be slightly unusual to what colour the hair typically was in that time to subtly show that she was a witch or at least different.

Concept: Character Simple Clothing Designs

Having settled on the idea of a youthful-looking-yet-aged witch, I then proceeded in creating clothing silhouettes. All of these are dresses as those were popular in this time for women, I just needed to decide on what style I wanted to use.
I kept narrowing down the designs to the choices I preferred and even created iterations of the shoes underneath the dress.

The design of the bottom of the dress I chose was not a typical dress in the 1800s, however I thought it would work well.


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Women in the American Society: Over the Years, (2015). Fashion in the 1800's: Modesty. [online] Available at: http://womenintheamericansocietyoverthe.weebly.com/fashion-in-the-1800s-modesty.html [Accessed 13 Nov. 2015].


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Concept: Character Silhouettes

These are silhouettes created with the Witch from The Tinderbox in mind. My time and place was 1800s America and so my first thought was to create a native American female, however as I carried on with this process the idea changed to a figure of an upper-class woman. This is because I thought more about the concept and a background to the character in this stage. I wanted to portray a youthful looking witch who had fallen from grace years before.

In this third project, I think I improved a lot more in creating silhouettes and making figures from the shapes I saw.