Desert of Colours (new)

Right I went back to this drawing and tried adding in more texture to the sand. I also changed the sky because I really didn't like the sky I had before. I've also added Bastain standing on the sand looking out at it to show you that he's standing on hills of sand although I'm beggining to think that my sand hills resemble serbert however coloured sand hills are fantasty so it's a challenge to make them look real. I still want to discuss it with Phil about this painting just to see if we can make it any better.

More Digital Painting

Here I've added more trees into the background to seperate the moutains and the maze.

Here I've put some texture into the maze to make it stand out and round it off.



Here I've added in lighting to give it more realistic feel. I still need to add some tiny flowers into the maze, edit the sky and change the hill in front: I don't like the shape.

Digital Painting with Phil

After talking with Phil I've decided to change to composition of my original painting. I would like to change it some more I dont like the hill at the front too much at the moment and the trees in the background are going to come forward alot more too and just general detail.

Silver City

Here are some thumbnail drawings of The silver city which sits on the lake of tears.
Here is a picture of Venice. I decided to looks at it to see how the water and buidlings come together.

My friend suggested I look at Stargate Atlantis because it has a city floating on top of water as well. He also pointed out that if everythings made of silver it won't have proper right angles but with be quite curved. Here are just some drawings I did of the silver city exploring making it round. The drawings on the right I tried adding itn the town square where everyone gathers for the tournament.

Night Forest

At the beggining of the chapter, "Desert of colours", it describes the night forest which has gigantic trees and plants within in. Bastian is even sitting in one of the flowers during the scene. I looked at the film Quest for camelot to see how I want my trees to look, the trees within the film seem alive and have moment to them, so I drew some of my trees with different angles and twist to give them life.

Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot

I decided to look at this film because of the forest scenes within it. Although you can't really change a forest too much this film makes it comes alive. It's basically a fantasy story based around the kind Arthur books and they go into an enchanted forest. I also like how the film stills look like digital paintings them giving me an idea on how to go about my tablet work. It also features quite a few scenes with lakes in them with should help when doing the silver city and the lake of tears scene.

Never Ending Story History and Sources

The never ending story was written by Michael Ende and first published in 1979. It's a German Fantasy novel about this parrallel world that's being destroyed. Most of the story takes place in Fantastica which features mainly forest areas.

These are just some source images I've found to look at to get some realism for my paintings. However being a fantasy forest I don't image it to be exactly realistic.