Fantastica in Danger

Ok, Today I printed out the PDFs of Neverending story from the folders on MyUCA. I read through the first couple of passages of the book and immediatley thought of an enchanted forrest. I looked through the pages, analysed them and broke them down by underlining pieces of content that could relate to the environment. The quick sketch below was an image I had drawn to visualise a line I had previously read in the first paragraph of the book. Great Oak. This Iconic image of a forrest gave me a base for a main scene in the forrest therefore the image below represents a large tree of importance. As this is only the first of my sketches, the tree itself doesn't look as almighty as I had first imagined. This is why development in this project will be such a key point throughout. 

The next image is another quick sketch to help me bring my imagination to a visual representation of what the forrest may look like if it was overlooked by the moon. As the extract states, it is nightfall and the moon is present. Althought the image is'nt visually pleasing it gives me an idea of how I could develop these smaller images into a refined final piece. 

 

The next image which is below is a more refined sketched image I had drawn after I had a more broad idea of how I would create my scene. In the book there is a piece of text which tells of a parting within the trees, a parting to an open space. In the image below I have tried to create thick trees which seperate one another by a gap in the middle. There will be the opening, where the light will be allowed to stream through onto the floor of the open space, where the wisp watches.

The image above is a work in progress. In this image i want to get a sense of perspective but not to allow a character to take the focus off of the scenery. Just to help me I have blured in a circle in the bottom left of the page above. This represents the wisp, overlooking the opening in the forrest. Once more, below are four texures I found whilst walking too and from different places. I did'nt have my camera therefore I gathered the dead and dying foliage and stuck it into my Sketchbook for texture reference images.

I gathered the textures above because they reminded me of what to find in a forrest. The moss represents a texture which could be found on the ground, over the old great oak, on or underneath rocks. Some of the leaves represnt decay, this could represent many different things. For one holes in the leaves could show an abundance in magical wildlife, or it could show a dying, wounded forrest. It mentions something about war in the passage, Something I will take a further look into, destruction of wooded areas and forrests.