Assignment 1--World Building with Organics- Thumbnail Phase

 

Assignment #1 World Building

 Overlap- Staging and placement of shapes in foreground, mid ground, and background is an extremely important part to understand how to establish depth with environments, especially organics. 

Grouping- They work in unison supporting each other to create visual reads and establish relationships with other parts of the composition.  With overlap we can establish depth, directional flow, movement within a composition, and if done correctly a theme with an emotional read provided for the audience. 

Focal Point- you can have a focal point placed inside the midground. A skull, animal skull, castle, small cabin, old car, crashed plane, old rocks... (we do a old house next project)

Step 1- Reference

Step 2- Plant sketching

Step 3 Arranging a composition in thumbnail form

Step 4- Light Studies

Step 5- Final Value Pass

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Reference

Mushrooms

Illustrative Reference

Clouds

Rocks

Tree Reference

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