Archives February 2021

Snowflake Scenery Sketches

In the last few posts related to the snowflake project, we created the character templates for the snowflakes and have worked out some rough storyboard ideas. In this section of the process we are going to work on several scenery sketches to set the stage and potentially the style of how this work will come together. I will be taking samples of several potential story locations that I have been working on and try to translate them into illustrated form. These will not be the final product by any means but will help act as a stepping stone on the journey to piecing together this concept.

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Story Prompt #9

You were cursed as a child, this curse was the cruelest that could have been imagined, a life without hope. Anything you hoped for would slip through your grasp without fail, leading you to grow up not believing in luck or fate, but that success is achieved only through hard work and focus. One day you meet an overly cheerful individual that decides it is their new mission in life to change your perspective…

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Klemp's The Kiss

Klimt’s The Kiss

It has been my experience that when you get the opportunity to view one of these masterpieces in person, you get a grander sense of how the art can affect each and every person that wanders through the gallery. For this particular piece, it is a very special reminder of a trip that my wife and I were lucky enough to take. We hadn’t intended to find this particular piece, it was just a mere happenstance that we found ourselves in the right place, the wonderful city of Vienna, Austria at the Belvedere Museum.

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Story Prompt #8

Choose a famous piece of art, painting, sculpture or other medium that represents a snapshot in time. Using the aspects that are represented, create a story that integrates those events, scenes or characters that this snapshot was taken from.

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