A Day In the Life - Roughs

In order to make these roughs I highlighted the main themes of the article; resisting temptation, achieving your goals and decision making, and based the images off them. 

These two roughs were well received. The imagery is obvious and perhaps cliché but the theme of temptation is clear through the characters face and body language. The portrait layout is most effective as the size of the burger suggests a power over the person. 

The off centre composition and bright rays shining from the apple are eyecatching. Temptation is suggested by the apple - a classic representation of temptation however it is a little abstract and if you haven't read the article the image doesn't hold up by itself. This might be intriguing but other designs were much stronger than this one. 

 These two portrait roughs were some of my weakest as they didn't encapsulate the feel of the article. They focus around achieving your goals, my crit group advised that these images would link more to the article if they had some form of overcome temptation in them but as they were the group didn't understand them.

Out of all my roughs this was one that recieved the most positive feedback. The image is somewhat abstract but clearly conveys the message of being in two minds - relating back to the decision making element of the article. I was unsure of whether the question-marks were necessary but the feedback concluded they weren't needed as the image was clear enough. This is one that has been chosen to be one of my final images. 

In the two above images another classic temptation visual is used in the form of an angel and devil on the shoulder. I felt that the initial drawing was too cliché and didn't make full use of the space, as there is a lot of negative space above the character. The second image uses the same idea but having the angel and devil fighting gives a real sense of conflict that decision making and resisting temptation can give. Also the characters head at the bottom, looking up the page, is a way more interesting use of the space.
This image is another that my crit group suggested to be in the final images, which I loved because when I drew the image I loved the idea but wasn't sure if it would work.

Above is the final image that was chosen to be in the final image but it needs some revisions. Running towards the goal is a good message however it does still need an element of temptation behind the character. A suggestion was hands reaching in and offering tempting things.

I am happy with the three images that have been chosen, I think they all work well with the article. I do need to develop some further and make them work as a set together. As you can see in these images only yellow and purple have been used, something really drew me to this colour combination. There's a definite contrast between dark and light, which could subtly suggest good and evil but I will have to test out some other colours to be sure different combinations wouldn't work better.