This is the comp for the fantasy spread of my pig book. The pigs imagine themselves as storybook characters. It's Part 'Rapunzel' and part 'George and the Dragon'. I filched a brilliant rubber dragon from my son's toy box. It reminded me of the creature in the medieval painting below by Paolo Uccello. I decided it would be nice to make a bit of a pastiche of the medieval picture. Potscourers were really good for the eye of the storm and the tree. If you look at the original pic I'm sure Paolo was thinking of them too. A war gaming guy who sold me the sprinkle-on grass texture, said shaking dried herbs on trees made really good leaves. So now the whole set smells vaguely of oregano as well as Humbrol enamel! The comp needs to be tweaked in the final photo but it's getting there. It's a shame I couldn't squeeze more of the wall (further down this page) into the pic since it was rather labour intensive and I was quite proud of it, but it really didn't need it.
The lance travels from the eye of the storm to the nose of dragon apparently suggesting divine intervention in helping to slaughter the evil fiend. Note to self: Need to make more of the wings and tail for the final pic.
You asked on The Creative Review blog what people thought of white text on a black background. Personally I don't like it and I explain why here http://julieoakley.blogspot.com/2009/08/tom-and-my-regular-rant-about-black.html
ReplyDeleteJust thought I'd give you some feedback as you'd asked