Instead of concentrating on the character I tried to draw a layout for the Isis/Cernunnos page for the CD Cover. The idea is that the antlers of Cernunnos and the wings of Isis will interlink representing the bind between Man and Women, a common theme of the two deitites. Using the concept used by the Egyptians (and many other civilisations) I want to add in buildings, animals etc that are a lot smaller in scale to Isis and Cernunnos to show they are gods.
Next I started to sketch for the Andro page, based around a circle dance. Samantha said we have to draw something everyday we find difficult (which I haven't been too good at keeping up, but I will try harder) so I wanted to draw some people in movement as I find this pretty tricky and it's pretty relevant to the Circle Dance page. The teachers had suggested to someone else in the class to look at Muybridge for dancing people so I decided to do the same.
I wasn't particularly happy with this sort of movement for the cover, I wanted it to be more divine. Also it would make it very hard to fit onto such a small ring. I think after that I googled illustrated movement or something along those lines anyway. I spotted this picture (left below) "The Shepard's Dream" which I thought could be an interesting approach: to draw the people from above, size wise it's far more logical and a bit more interesting.
It turned out the painting is by Fuseli who I know for the painting of the demon sitting on the reclining lady with a horse in the dark background. I hadn't actually looked into his work before and it really is sooo beautiful. I really love the light dark contrasts he uses and the natural colours, stunning.
I just did a quick copy sketch of the two above just to get in the mood. I also just wanted to try to draw a bit faster without tryiong to get everything realistically correct.
After having done this I made a sketch for my Andro page based in the sketches I did from Fuseli's work.
I discovered that the first page would have to have a wider band to be able to fit anything interesting on it, as you can see below the protoype of that first ring page is very narrow. Ablove I drew in the rings of the other pages just to show that changing the size wouldn't have any ill effects for the overal composition.
Next I coloured drew out the sketch with a bit more detail. I changed the arms to more ribbin-like features.
I wanted to try out the theme of stained glass window drawing. The colours I took from the ribbons used in a May Pole (part of Pagan circle dance ritual for Beltane).
This picture really isn't right at all!!! Points of Criticism:
-The colours really don't capture the mysterious atmosphere of the album.
-I don't like the arms as ribbons, they look more like tentacles. Other it's an interesting metaphore for connection I want them to be more human.
-The characters should all be facing the centre to draw the gaze in.
-The technique is far to static for the poetic album and for the concept of movement.
Clearly the stained-glass idea is just not going to work for this project.
-By only using women the message of connectivity is limited.
Points for improvement in next sketch:
-Draw normal arms -> Use more woven ribbons from the may-pole to add the message of connectivity instead
-Don't only draw woman -> Add a man, I think also adding animals is a good idea. I would like to add a stag and a doe as the album is based around Cernunnos and the Stag is his animal symbol. By combining the these characters I can symbolise the balance between man and woman and human and animal which is also a very important symbolism of Cernunnos.
-Use different colours -> Use darker colours like in Fuseli's work so I can put a light focus on particular points. This is a better conection to my manner of working in general and it will fit in better with the atmosphere of the album.
-Use a different technique to get the movement better and that will fit in with the whole album
Technique wise I would say so far I am the most happy with my experimentations with dry-needlepoint. They have a misty kind of effect which creates that level of mystcism.
While searching through my image collection I found a photocopy which caught my eye. Sadly I didn't write down the book it came from or the illustrator, only a quote from the book.
Looking at it closely it looks like a Dry Needle Point Etch which has been worked with lots of colour to get a really amazing and atmospheric effect. I'd like to try this out because I think it could be the potential right next step for getting the atmosphere, colour and technique right for my cover.
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