Mixed media experiments
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Thank you all again, for your reactions and comments - it´s really helpful! @LauraA my agent favored the second one too, for nearly the same reasons - so spot on! She asked me to do a sample that doesn’t look “straight out of a book” - something which can stand alone better in terms of storytelling. So I´m working on that now, as well as on another spread. If all three work, I may string together a dummy and try her with that....
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Next sample - still not sure this approach would work for a book. Have you ever seen something like this in a book?
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@smceccarelli This looks really good! (i love the little detail of the sandal falling away from the heel)
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This whole series is really cool! I love the dimensionality of the cranes and how they flow through the composition. Also the whole "shallow space as sky" concept. Are you working with photos (the cranes, with touches of drawing on top) combined with drawing (the boy)?
For some reason I want his face, back and arm to be a little more 3D. The boy was 3D enough in the last one, and in this one the dimensionality seems to work well from mid-back down. I think it's because the cranes are so realistic and he is not the imaginary part, they are. But take it for what it's worth as a suggestion, because you may have something else in mind.
And no, I don't recall ever having seen anything similar! I like it as a concept!
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So wonderful Simona! love these..I think my preference is the more realistic boy as well.
There is an artist in Ontario...her name is Elly MacKay whose process involves cutting out her characters and setting them up in scenes to then photograph. Quite amazing.. you’d enjoy her work. (Theaterclouds.com)
