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final piece part 3

This is the last piece  in my set of 3 for the exhibition. As I mentioned below, it is one of the final scenes in the book where the evil wizard is turned into an old man and encased in a bubble.

final piece number 2

This is the second illustration for my final piece, this time my scanner seems to have behaved itself. This is from another key scene in the book.

bubbles

This is the third image for my final piece, a key point at the end of the story where the evil wizard "Bardel" gets turned into an old man and put in a bubble which floats high into the sky, whilst the prince and princess are getting married. To be honest I think the image below could be better as it is hard to distinguish the wedding without reading the story, but this piece would accompany the book anyway.

eagles and stuff

This is the second image which I shall be filling with watercolours. It shows "Wendy" the unicorn and "Silas" the wizard casting magic on the evil wizard "Bardel" who is currently in the form of an eagle, who is chasing their ship.

unicorns

This is the first of the illustrations I am doing for my final piece, which shall be a set of three key points taken from the story. I have decided that fewer colourful illustrations would be preferable to more black and white ones, as my research shows this is more common in children's books. Children find coloured images preferable (I put this question to my friend's sister and brother and received a definite answer), and I also believe that they would be more interesting aesthetically for my final piece. A set of watercolour images would also be easier to recognise as children's illustration in an exhibition.

When I scanned in the image, I found that it distorted the colours somewhat. Below is the original scanned image; the light tones of pink and orangey reds seem to have completely disappeared.

I altered the colours on Photoshop a little to try to get the image as close to the real thing as possible. The image below shows this.
Whilst messing with this, I increased the blue tones to end with the image below. I actually find this image preferable to my original painting as I think it is somewhat more mysterious and depicts the 'blue light' from which the unicorn appears far better. It also makes the light seem to reflect off of the trees in the background.
If it was possible to submit the images for printing digitally, I think I would choose the bottom image.

final piece

I wish! This is the ink outline of the image which I shall fill using watercolours. I got slightly distracted and started drawing a brain and found that it fitted perfectly above the ray of light..