Black and white rough thumbnail sketches:

Practicing with thumbnails before heading towards a final piece was always something that was encouraged while I was growing up and when I wanted to create any outcome of any sort. I understand that thumbnails are usually just a vague perception of what you might want to explore different compositions and test out colour themes as well as other factors before jumping into the commitment of the final piece and in that sense it’s a very comforting planning stage for any artist. Although with this body of work I found I didn’t really give myself the challenge of creating more intricate compositions which I would have liked and that was also possible due to subconsciously disliking the model I created prior which discouraged me from going forward, however I’m glad I pushed through it and created these thumbnails regardless because it’s something I normally dread because I end up focusing on so many options in which the final piece could end up going into rather than just getting on with it.

I definitely realised I liked the ink medium a lot more than the others simply because I could create a variety of marks with the cross hatching method than with the other materials. Black and white media is also something that interests me a lot in terms of setting a morbid mood which I tend to drift towards a lot of the time.

Rough thumbnail sketches in colour:

Photographic process of taking reference photos for the task above:

The different approach of cutting out a square in a piece of paper to create an aspect of a viewfinder to photograph references from the model was very helpful at closing into specific areas in my 3D world which without it would have been more difficult in my opinion. This was an unusual shift to how I normally gather my reference photos to work from and I will most likely be using it again.