Wedding background and Final Polaroid

 6th November

After discussion with my group, they said that their idea for the photo would be a portrait, stood inside an archway just on the steps of the cathedral. This is what I came up with combining my thumbnail designs, attempting to split the red/brown, and the blue/grey colour palettes with the indoors and the outside. To make this easier for Ayesha, I have done most of the perspective, I just need her to redraw over this in her own style, and fix anything she thinks looks incorrect. I will then add the characters over the top. 

12th November

I decided to try and take a background off of Ayesha's plate, so we thought me taking the wedding background would be best, because it's not as significant and therefore won't be as obvious if it's not 100 percent accurate to Ayesha's style. 

WWW - I think by looking at Ayesha's reference, I was able to add more details in to my original design, which made it look less blank. I also think the more muted colour palette helps bring together the reds and the blues better. 

EBI - I struggled with her style and thin linework. Even though I was essentially tracing my own perspectives, this took a lot longer than anything I've attempted so far in this project. 

We discussed removing colour to show the background like in the reference but we decided to just keep everything muted as a compromise, because removing to a bare background in say the main living room where it's covered in wallpaper wouldn't look right, and we want the backgrounds to be consistent.  

13th November

WWW - With a bit of tweaking on the colour palette of the characters, making them darker to fit the sunset, I think the character really fit well in to the picture despite the style contrast that our group wanted. I'm glad that my research in to both the characters and the backgrounds paid off and feel coherent. 

EBI - Designing clothing isn't my strongest suit, as for Sandy I mostly found inspiration in Ayesha's character designs. For the father, I used the cape that I designed him in originally, but for the mother, I essentially just made up the dress, with a medieval inspiration to them, as based on the windows and pillars in my background research, and the laces on her casual dress. I think using hints of whites between both of the characters did help set them apart from the background, as there isn't white used anywhere else.