Book: gatsby

Color Composition 2





















Color Comp 2, am more satisfied with this one! i think the modeling on the girl is much less severe than on the previous comp. Rusty suggest to add some more modeling to indicate the body underneath the dress, so I will be making those changes. The floor is still slightly skewed but it's working out better. I am especially glad that I finally got the party scene in there. Rusty suggested that I keep the crowd at a lighter gray and have Gatsby's figure with more black so that he stands out. That sounds good to me! because I really didn't want to put him in ablue suit. I chose to paint the walls green to indicate the symbolism of the color green in the book. So on to the painting....

BooK Gatsby

Pencil Comp/ Perspective/ Character Development


















Alrighty! So I had to re-vamp my approach. The last image shows some research I did on drawing crowds and party scenes, as well as trying to get an idea of the 20's feel. The party scene at the bottom right, I used to shade the figures in my party scene (top right). I drew it on a separate piece of paper, large scale and then placed it into the room by scaling it down. The picture is taken form the movie based on the book. I also began to work on the perspective of the floor some more but it still has a tilting effect. I'll work it out though. I like the sketchy feel of the crowd of party-goers so I may keep that in the final piece... It's coming together...

Book :Gatsby

Color Compositions






















Evidently I am still struggling with perspective issues. Here is my color composition development for my book cover illustration. I went for a higly stylized illustration of a 1920's woman in a grand room with floor tiles. She's leaning against a bar and gazing through the doorway into the other room at Gatsby circulating the party. I had some difficulty placing the scence in the doorway so I did it on a separate sheet of paper. Along with persective, I am also struggling with illustrating the crowd of party-goers. Round two... here goes...

Book

Sketches








































The two sketches above were the most like out of my book cover sketches for "The Great Gatsby." In the 4th sketch (top) I went with the theme of one of Gatsby's soirees, placing Daisy in a sort of alluring position and also I wanted to use her dress to indicate the time period. In the 2nd sketch (bottom) I used to car as a medium for addressing the time period. I also wanted to allude to one of the main plots in the book about who was really driving the car that was in an accident. Both ideas I like, but I think I may try out the party scene to give me a chance to work on some figure modeling and spacial relations, which is clear from my pencil sketch that I struggle with perspective. Let's roll!

Sound Final

Lawnmower















Here is my final illustration for the sound assignment. I chose to do the 13 x 19 in illustration in gouache medium. I tried to get the idea of the motion of the lawn-mower running over the twig by using some motion curvesn around the shape of the lawn mower. I think the curves may have been more successsful if I did more of them or made them more obvious. One element that I think was successful was the grass. I like that there is a clear area where the grass has been cut, for which I just used a tint of the darker green, and blotted with a dry brush. The taller grass took me a while to figure out, but with some technique suggestions from Rusty, I think it turned out nicely. I first laid down areas of color, after it dried I went back in with a damp fan brush and used paper towel to pick out some color, I then went back in and added detail to the blades of grass.