Studio Practice: Visual Narrative - Tell an untold story

Adding images with Photoshop:

These are the drawing of trees I scanned in and added into the landscape. I combined them together and re-sized them to get natural looking clumps of trees.

Floor:

I sketched some textures for the floor. I liked the look of circles that got smaller toward the top, this would keep the perspective of my scene looking correct.
I like how thick soft pencil looked - grainy and rough, but I didn't think it would have the same effect when scanned in and manipulated on photoshop.
I thought a bolder texture might be more appropriate.

I felt this texture would be more appropriate and could be manipulated and resized on photoshop to fit into my landscape.

Moon:

I tried some alternative moon faces. I came up with this one that had face at a slight angle. I like his scary grin, I think he will look good in my book.

Adding colour & texture:

Id chosen on my colour combination before hand when working with paint pen, This was the colour pallet I chose on photoshop.

Combining the separate scans of my book was difficult and took a lot of re-sizing and arranging to make it fit.
After connecting up my scanned image I removed all the white from image meaning it was on transparent background.
I darkened my outlines and made them solid black.
I then added the colours, balancing them out across the buildings in ways I had practiced in roughs. Yellow was the key colour and was what the majority was coloured.
Adding the floor caused me some problems. The black spots where to bold and overpowering.
They gave a good perspective but didn't work in black. I tried them in grey which looked slightly better.
I then added a lighter grey brush texture of the top of them which made them less flat and bold.
I decided to make the entire ground area grey and have the spots a slightly different shade, This created a nice texture that wasn't to bold or over powering.
This also made the characters stand out more against the ground.
I experimented with some opaque colours for the sky.

The pale yellow sky is my favourite, I think the pinky sky would also work but I feel like its more effective with a subtle sky. I don't want the sky to take away vibrancy from the buildings.

Title and cover:

I was unsure on how to create my cover. I didn't want to have a cover that was loose around the book. I decided to add a cover onto the last page of my book so it would rap round onto the from of my book. I thought the first page of my book would make a good cover, if it had a suitable title added.

I felt that hand done type would be best to match the visuals of my book.
I sketched out a few title designs. This was my favourite, The shape of the font matches the style of the buildings.
The scroll keeps to the medieval style of camelot.
I wanted it to look as if it waving inwards towards Camelot from the gate.