Vignettes

 For this project we were required to do a minimum of two Vignettes- fully rendered. I hoped to do more than two but I was very experimental with the ones I have done and so it took a bit longer. 

Vignette 1 (from page 1):

This was a very difficult painting to do, completed in photoshop. A lot of different figures and poses and a lot of action. I have tried to make these seem like they have been painted in oils because of the time period- most of the existing paintings of Louis are oils because that's what was done at that time, I like this authentic approach. Ive used effects in photoshop to get that oil painted feeling, which although is effective, I think would have been nice to have done this traditionally instead for a more natural feel and to get even more different textures. Before printing I will also blur the edges a little better on here as its a bit messy at the moment.  I have taken inspiration from Vincent Van Gough to get that really textured and dynamic sky, it feels like it has motion which was the goal. 

Vignette 2 (from page 6): 

Really pleased with how this page turned out; I have taken on board some of Molly's feedback on the original sketch and tried to make the eyes bigger and the eyebrows more raised. I think they could have been even more so, but it works still within the story as this is the beginning of his paranoia, which worsens later in the story. I have used the same techniques to keep the style the same as that of the first Vignette. This will be a full page so no need for the edges to be faded.

Overall I think these are nice renderings of a couple of the pages, would have been really awesome to see even more pages done like this but I just didn't end up having the time in between learning a lot over this project. I think they capture the theme well too, both the character and time period.