Finished cover art

This is the finished piece for the 'Cover' of my narrative

The entire piece was made using the polygonal lasso tool, like with the other photoshop pieces. The bottom part of the shirt was particularly difficult to do with the lasso tool as it required finer detail, however I'm glad it came out as I was hoping.


- A quick explaination of the narrative to go with the cover.

In 19th century, Fake London a wave of mysterious cases is creeping up on the newly formed- and hated, Metropolitan police. Following Isaac Pollitt, one of the best officers Scotland Yard has to offer- with a terrible attitude to go with his mouth; he leads the investigation to uncover who is behind these cases... But the further he delves into the case, more questions arise. Starting with what was supposed to be a missing persons case turns into one of the biggest investigations for the Officer; he finds them, but something very wrong is happening in the most prosperous city of this age....

Even more character and environment sketches

I found some more sketches floating around of Isaac interacting with other characters and also a few environment designs.

Interaction mainly with the other officer 'Peter' and the Chief, also giving a go a some perspective shots.

These were mostly practice sketches for the London rooftops, it took a while to get down how i wanted it to look like as there was the complication of the layer of smog obstructing the upper parts of the buildings- which in turn covers their view of the sky.

The other sketches are just more perspective practice as I think a distorted perspective would suit the style of my narrative.



Finalised concept art

These are two finished in-situation concept pieces, both featuring the protagonist Isaac.

Isaac trying to capture the antagonist. The antagonist is easy to draw, but as I wanted him to have a phantom like look; so was aiming for the consistently to be almost smokey, which wasn't as easliy acheiveable as I first thought.

It is a fairly simple concept piece, but with the concept art I mainly wanted to show off the characters interactions with one another.

The second piece I was trying out just using colours for the piece in a similar style to the images of Isaac in an earlier post. The background feels very flat, but it was just a test with the slightly altered style and I didn't want to overload it with detail.

The setting is of Isaac and the butler 'Gideon' searching the 'Lady's' house for clues for the missing child.

It didn't take too long to make this and I enjoy doing concept art with how the characters act around one another, I feel as though it gives the viewer a better idea of how the overall story feels like.



Animatic

Rough animatic, quickly put together using corresponding colours for the main characters.

'Cover art' thumbnails

Thumbnail ideas for the 'cover art' for my narrative, I don't have a title for it as of yet, If I can think one up before doing that piece it would be preferable.
Here are 6 ideas of potential covers.

Top left- A high shot of Isaac in a fisheye perspective, little detail of the environment he's in; a distorted path with foot prints leading down it.

Top right- Isaac holding the 'Justice' statue from the middle of the police office; in a ballroom dance, sort of pose. The antagonist's cape bleeding across from the left.

Bottom left- A close up shot of Isaac's chest and lower face area, a sinister smile with his hand raised with a 'hush' pose. His lower right breaking apart, pieces falling from him; some of the pieces are people.

Bottom right- The 'Justice' Statue in a dark background; Isaacs equipment lain out at the base of the statue.





Top- Isaacs police equipment strewn across the floor, the antagonists cape looming over in the corner.

Bottom- Entirely blank piece with Isaac and the child he has to search for, for the first case in the story. A 'Winny the Pooh' esque image, he is walking with the girl, holding her hand- her lower half distorting/fading due to her lack of legs.


I had shown these thumbnails to a few friends and all of them had thought that the bottom left image on the first page woul be a good choice- this was also one of my favourites so I went along with their choices; There was the suggestion of possibly implying the antagonist into the image like the others; I followed up with 2 more thumbnails of a similar cover.

The left image was adding a baton to the cover, but the moment someone pointed out that it could be mis interperated as something else, it was pushed aside.

The right is essentially the same as the original but with the antagonists cape coiling around Isaac, I'll sketch out the rough idea of the cover and work to see what looks best.

The below image was just a quick sketch of the protagonist holding the girl's hand, the butler holding onto her, and the other officer- Peter holding onto him, it was just for fun but I thought I'd include it as they are characters from this project.

Storyboarding

Storyboard scans for how the opening sequence for my narrative would pan out. These will be neatened to an animatic, if there was longer for the project I would have liked to progress further with it and have a finished opening sequence; either animated or just as a finalized animatic.

It's barely readable, but it is a lot neater than what I would usually do for a storyboard, I will develop it further to a rough animatic of how each frame would look like.

Side characters

Just a few palette swaps of the side characters, to help with some in-situation concept sketches.

The above image is palette swaps of the chief of police, I stuck with mostly 'authority' - like colours, save for the last one where I was aiming for a pyjama stripe bottoms, as he wear slippers anyway I wanted to see what it would be like if he literally was only half ready for work.

Palette swap of the 'Lady', I asked a few people which one they preffered as I was really stuck as to what colours suited her best. The most popular of colours were the first 3, not really helping thinning it down. The second one was ever so slightly the most popular colours, wheras 1 ans 3 were my favourites. I may work more with 1 and 2, see how they progress.

The 'Lady's' butler, I used slight alterations of his outfit as I wasn't all the pleased with the first one. The middle two I think work the best, complimenting the Lady's preffered colours.

Hair style idea for the other officer in the narrative, going by the name of Peter. I had drawn him just as a generic officer for the most part, but I thought I should at the very least give him a more dignified face and hairstyle. I wanted him to look 'bland', average and a lot less intimidating, in comparrison to Isaac. The above ones, with the slicked back hair look too 'take charge' so to speak, I much prefer the bottom ones for Peter.