A brief outline of the story, which really caught my imagination is, a fight between a man and his inner demons, a darker side of his personality that is planning to take over and lead Jack's life for him.
this led me to start looking at split personalities and thinking about how I could catch this subject in an image.
After meeting Adam and a brief consultation we decided to work towards a sequential image, comic book style lay out,
I tried this and was struggling to make it work, even looking at Frank Millers graphic novel work, I was not happy with the direction and aesthetics of how it was developing.
Talking to my tutor, I realised, I could create one full image to 'sum up' the story, this made me quite a happy bunny and filled me with re-newed drive.
I began drawing up and digitally playing with photo's of classmates faces in order to put together a kind of 'morphing' image, showing the journey from one side of the personality to the other.
Again, it was a direction I was not best pleased with as it gave the image a 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' vibe more fitting of the Bruce Banner's transformation into the Incredible Hulk rather than the battle between to sides of a personality within a persons mind.
Examples of Frank Millers Graphic work from the Sin City graphic Novel
Examples, of the Jekyll and Hyde Images I used for inspiration but eventually decided to work away from.
After attempting to digitally create 'morphing' effect, I went back to the drawing board to develop other ideas as I felt this was not conveying the story correctly.
Some of the compositional idea, quick sketches that I deliberated over.
In the end, I settled on a back to back composition, to represent to sides pulling in opposite directions, rather than directly opposing each other.
I drew this out and painted it in my own style, which I feel didn't really work, the format was 2 small and make the image look 'blobby'.
So I tried again using a washier paint and Ink mix as it would leave a sharper looking image, I also used this media for the banner as well.
This is the first painted rendition, the format left the image looking stretched, this was another reason that I went on and re did the painting using looser media.
I was much happier with this outcome, and decided to put it onto photo shop to see if I could further develop it...
The mix of digital and water colour works well as a contrast but still lacks something I feel.
I will keep experimenting and iron out all the kinks of this one, Lesson learnt, choose your own format if possible!
GO BIG!!
