D&AD Shutterstock: Development

Started thinking about colour and style. I'd realised that I had made the 'Quest for Coffee' really quite epic but didn't think I'd added the same level of drama to the other two images. So I went back to the initial definition of the archetype, as I'd got more caught up in the everyday aspect that I forgot to amp it up a notch.

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With my tragedy image I got thinking about the classic tragedy mask. I started shaping the mouth into more of this shape to exaggerate the drama of the image. I've really enjoyed how all of the roughs have come out for this as I think it does have the intended effect. I think the bright high contrast colours really work with creating drama.

 I especially liked the red with all the lines, as it adds a level of detail - I'm not used to working in this style but I liked how it turned out, I think it could add something to each image if I continued that style. I've tried out the lines with the coffee image as well and I think it looks cool, I'm going to do this in lino as I am interested in doing more intricate print work. 

With 'The Voyage and Return' I found that the voyage is usually to a mystical land, so I thought about how to make the city appear exciting. Using the same swirly line technique, I could just give it some mystical looking clouds. 

For the coffee image I want to give it some really epic red/orange/fiery colours like an epic Lord of The Rings / Mount Doom style thing.