red riding hood comps

Oh man, just had a 4 hour lecture about composition and it was INTENSE.

Marshall Vandruff returned to Ai-SD once again to hit us with some knowledge, this time about composition.

All the information is still settling into my head... so I'm not going to dive into it in this post.

I tried to take what he said and put it into some compositional thumbnails for the LRRH stuff I want to do as a personal project. A lot of it had to do with "feeling" or emotion and how blocked out shapes are used and using 'consonance' in the composition. So many things can be applied to a composition, I feel like I'll get lost. haha

But here's a few attempts at some quick compositional thumbnails. I'm digging top right and bottom left.

Any suggestions? Any technique suggestions? Comments? Hit me with it.

Well, here are some questions to consider when doing your own thing:

What emotion are you trying to convey?
How does it feel as an abstract design?
What other things is the design like? (Does it look/feel like something else? Not too sure about this Q here...)
What visual rhyme can one echo through their piece?

Red Riding Hood, Not So Little Anymore

So here it is, what I've been working on for the past few days.

This is definitely my initial concept/drawing of Red Riding Hood. Didn't do any thumbnails or anything.... which I should have.. haha

Hopefully this will be the first of a few Red riding Hood redesigns to hit my blog. Next one will hopefully be better.

Done in/with:

paper and mechanical pencil/photoshop cs3/wacom graphire3/time: way too long


Click to enlarge, but it's kind of big.



C&C is all welcome. Would prefer constructive criticism.