Triptych - Development & Deliverables

Composition ideas

This is a rough composition using watercolour of how I intend to arrange the flowers around the illustration, keeping the combination of the strong linear frame combined with the soft watercolour floral pattern. 

Deciding on using the legs for the illustration, this was hand drawn then drawn digitally on illustrator. 

Keeping the lines simple and clean which will allow for placement of florals wherever. The idea is to wrap the floral designs around the legs so they interact with each other instead of just placing one over the other.

Creating the vector 

Scanned in dating of the skeletons legs

From the scanned image of my pen drawing, the vector of the legs was then recreated by using my drawing tablet on illustrator.

Creating the floral watercolours 

I began by lightly sketching the floral designs, allowing the watercolour to create the detail using different concentrations of the paint and water, in order for the flowers to be loose as opposed to have a strong linear outline, this will also contrast nicely against the linear illustration of the skeleton. 

Watercolour flowers (scanned in)

The finished watercolour flowers to use when taking the design digital have worked well, the combination of soft hues of pinks and blue compliment each other, they create a nice selection of pastel colours that I can work with. When taking these digital, I may change the colours to experiment with a range of tones, however as the aim for this design is to be kept feminine, this palette might communicate to the audience that it is aimed for. 


Once the flowers were scanned in, I decided that they would not work as a whole image how they have been drawn, so I began to play around with selecting the individual flowers and creating a composition that way to replicate the flowers weaving in and out of the legs. (As shown below.) 

Completed design

Final A1 poster design