Work In Progress - Final Piece Illustrations

To start creating my Final Pieces I firstly began by creating different brush strokes and different paint splatters in my sketchbook. These pages where then scanning onto my laptop and saved into a folder ready for use. 

After the basic brush strokes had been made I started by creating my Illustrations. These were done by firstly starting with a sketch and then proceeding onto doing the line work for each element of drawing. 

Once I had started creating the basic outlines for most of the drawing, I continued using the dip pen to do the more detailed parts of each sections. This process took me about five to six hours for each drawings. The fine individual lines which make up the cross-hatch shading within my illustrations proved to be the most time consuming and most challenging aspect. I did this style of drawing, to keep in sync with the Edward Gorey and John Kenn case study I wrote. It turn it allowed me to keep the same type of 'twisted' nature whilst also developing my own style within this category of Illustration.

As you can see from the screenshot below the amount of detail within each section of the drawing is starting to take shape and add interesting effects. 

Below you'll see all my final drawings I created to make my final piece. The process for each of these drawings were the exact same and each took several hours to complete. In addition to drawing these I also used a light pad in order to help identify where the light and dark sections of the drawing needed to be. With the added light from behind the illustration it allowed me to get a better perspective of what it looked like when I added shading.

The first Illustration will be for my ' Count Bodies Like Sheep ' lyrics, the second will be for my ' Ten Thousand Fists ' Lyrics, the third will be for my ' Youth Of The Nation ' lyrics, and the forth will be for my ' Dance With The Devil ' lyrics. I have also contained the illustration which will make up my front and back cover.