This image is going to be my entry for ed. 7 (not yet submitted at time of writing).Feedback for this piece indicates I need to make one of the figures different. There are various ways I could do this and ideas include: White shadow either painted or with torn paper, one of the shadows has a white outline (as if dead), a different colour circle (all white/black instead of grey), or I could have a targeting reticule (like on a rifle scope) searching the area, or a shadow could have his arms lifted as if saying "I'm here!".
The idea I like at the moment, is to have a shadow sprawled across the floor with a white outline. There will be no grey circle this time. This will represent someone who has spotted and then killed.
Below left is my first rough/playing attempt. As soon as I
read the article I pictured people being viewed from above exactly like in that image. Not only that, but the colour palette suggested made me instantly think of this piece by Jon McNaught:
Thus this informed my choices of where colour should go.
I thought I would have loads of figures (as in the final piece) but reproducing the same figure was proving really difficult. My solution was a simple grey circle, with a line of white to indicate where light is coming from. These circles may not look like people, but the shadows provide the human appearance.
I really like the monotony in these illustrations. Mine is painted in acrylic.
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