9 Pages of Sketches

Most of these sketches are just ‘thoughts on a page’ I did have one or two ‘Eureka’ moments where I thought that I had a really good shot- though now, looking back on my sketches of the temples looking out towards a mountainous path, it seems rather stereotypical. 



Just some 'Brain doodles of a mountain and a 'fancy'  mansion along with a rift leading up to said mansion. but as I said- their brain doodles.



Half a brain doodle, half a 'placeing-of-things' doodle, I don't particually like this sketch as it has the lack of any type of scale. it just looks like a small hill you might see in north Yorkshire behind a house.



Mansion desgining. I liked this desgin, but not the angle. it was a 'bowl of soup' I was dreading. and it had nothing but a house desgin.




mountain sketches. while scoureing through a serch of 'mountains veiw' I found a realy good picture (that I will put in my resource findings below) that had alot of detail, a cavernous apperence AND mountains in the distance.




This is a 'Eureka' moment for me. not only do I have perspective, but I have a cavern or chasm of sorts with the mansion in the back-ground. not takeing up the entire picture.




then... more brain doodles. I was trying to aim for a more imposeing building for the 'shunned house', but It didn't work well




back to 'House on the borderline' and yet another Eureka moment- statues! egypian statues of the chaos god 'Seth' (or 'Set') giving an arch-way to the way to the shunned house- like a portal of sorts.




With this new feed of (mostly if not all) egytian statues, I began to expariment. different possitians and statues. so far- my favorite and most likely to go with is the top right (Set) statues, looking down so, when the character passes through he is greeted with the eyes of  chaos.




After a talk with Phil. He said something interesting about 'looking through a window'. I know he was being metaphorical, but I gave that 'looking through into' a try. For me... it's a so-so. one side, I like it, it seems a l;ittle more aged and gives me a little more freedom to move out-side the confines of the basement. But again- it's a bowl of soup drawing, a little plain and boreing.




I tried from the other side of the door- the opposite angle, loking down the stairs to  the basement. though, again- I like it. the angles are a bit off and it was hard to try and fix them... wich I failed to do so



Recources

All of these images I looked at are from 'google' serches. I made sure they were photographs and not copy-righted.



A string of mountains, both far an near, covered in cloud and mist- I was hopeing to digitaly paint something like this.




This photo inspired the 'Eurika' moment, though it being a chasm more than a mountain.




With that original 'Eurika' moment, I serched for temples that were lined with sculpted Gods and Goddesses, this is the Meenakshi Temple




I soon remembered out the apperence of Set and his Egyptian origin. and once again scoured for an image of a 'hallway' lined with Egyptian Gods and Godesses which led me to this image of Abu Simbel temple.



Influence Maps

Shunned House Influence Map

After I recived Folder 13, I immidetly serched 'the shunned house' and found out it was a real house. so- that means that I can't help but make great refence to that house, but I must try my best not to copy it direct. so- the serch began for abandoned houses that looked as if they'd seen much better days. as well as that lone mushroom- which, if you have read the first part of 'The Sunned House' you would know that H.P Lovecraft talks about 'bad smelling white fungi that glows like witches candle light' -or something similar.

House on the Borderline Influence Map

This Influence map was a half-half challenge. Meaning that it's easy finding pictures of mountains and mansions, but not so easy of finding pictures of being on mountains. or any type of 'fancy' house on mountains or near the base of them. but- I DO hope to use these images for 'House on the Borderline' scenes, which are prooving problimatic in one way or another.

around 20 more sketches

I meant to post ten sketches last night. but... it seemed to have slipped my mind, as many things do as of late. Though, I'm unsure of where to go from here regarding the Shunned House- I'm focusing on the basement of said house because I think it's one of the most detailed parts that H.P Lovecraft described- that and the outside of the house which I plan to illustrate as well.

Metropolis Reveiw (changed)

Metropolis

Mushoom Drawings

One of the scenes in The Shunned House by H.P Lovecraft I really enjoyed reading was when the basement of the house was described, it seemed like such a dark damp and dank place that I immediately thought "this seems really interesting! I would love to depict this!"

and so, I hope that I do depict this eery basement as final piece. though much thought will have to go in the layout and planning for the writing to be depicted 'correctly' in my digital painting.

I'm not use to drawing Mushrooms. so, I thought that I would try and study them- I have an actual mushroom book with different types of fungi, but I chose an iconic shape for my first drawings so they don't look too unfamiliar.

though I don't intend the mushrooms to be a center focus of one of my three final pieces, I still want to get them right- as well as them being a 'comfort' in an unfamiliar practice of perspective and architectural drawings.

(I also much to Phil's delight- just found the spell checker!)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

caligari

Borderline House and Shunned House sketches

and so, I've begun. I'm going to try and aim for at least 10 sketches a day- that way, I'll have the minnimum requirement on the begining of the second week- then I can develop thoughs ect...

• 1. small representation of the basement in 'the shunned house'
• 2.(landscape) the chimney of the house in 'the Shunned house' that apparently sometimes bellows out wolf-shaped smoke.
• 3. the overgrown front garden in 'the shunned house'
• 4. Bigger representation of the basement in 'the shunned house'
• 5. the stright faced mountains (canyon) in 'the house on the borderline'
• 6. Mountain 'arena' with a box (marble) house in the center
• 7. Egyptian melevilent god Set (forground) and Hindu Death Goddess Kali (background)
• 8. another representation as above, but with the bore-faced giant, the fissure and marble house drawn out. (house on the borderline)
• 9. corridoor and stairway to the basement in the shunned house
• 10. Much Larger represenation of the basement in the shunned house.