Today I focused on getting the design for the Globe T-Shirt down. I still wasn't quite sure at this stage what to do. The previous week I had played around with putting Titania at the front and the monsters/bugs behind but I felt this was getting too chaotic. I decided to focus on one creature they could fight of instead of trying to put the whole amount text into one image.
Looking back I also felt that the fairies couldn't just be bugs. I think I mentioned earlier that the bug exterior looked like it could just be armour so I decided to make this the case. The easiest way to show this would be to have one of the fairies holding her bug helmet under her arm exposing her humanoid head. At first I concidered trying to cram this all into one image but thinking this too would be too chaotic I decided to put it as a back illustration.
I hadn't quite decided which creature to do so I just started with the ones I remembered. I think I abandoned the bat idea before I even got started. I continued with the spider which I remembered in the text., the scans of the sketches haven't come out very well. I couldn't really come up with any interesting compositions so I reread the text. I came across the spotted snake and thought this could be quite cool. The first sketch was just to set something down to work from. I thought the head should maybe be closer to the fairy being constricted but that looked too squished and the snake wasn't threatening enough. I thought well what would make the snake more threatening and then the good old hydra sprang to mind. A hydra is a snake-like dragon with multiple heads. when one is chopped it is replaced by three more (I think that's right :S). As this is Greek it fits in fine with the other mythological references. I lifted the top head up high again and added another one closer to the constricted fairy threatening her. I tilted the page a discovered that the composition was better if the head was in the top left corner, hence the box drawn around the picture. The final sketch has the head repositioned, extra fairies and the other head of the snake in a different position to add extra intereaction. I had the arching fairy above the snake head first (you can see it if you look closely) but it completely mucked the composition so I put it below which kept the slanted pyramid cmposition intact.
Before doing these I had done a few of the fairy with the helmet. At first she was holding up the head of the beast, started with bat, then spider and finished with the snake. There were two major floors. First of all it was too reminiscent of the Elizabethan Punk picture I did. Secondly once I had decided that it was going to be a snake there was no way the little fairy could hold up the snakes head and it just looked bloody stupid.
After having done the front sketches I carried on with the snake idea. At first I tried her sitting on top of the snake, which was well... crap!
I then thought she should be standing on top of the snake's head. This worked better I felt. I then went into overdrive on the text and snake which I decided really wasn't right. Also if the image were to be printed like this on the back of the T-Shirt the fairy would have been really small but I want her to be alot bigger. I tried putter text underneath and shortening the snake body. I still not convinced.
I sketched out the fairy in higher detail next so it would be ready to colour. I had to shift the leg a bit because it didn't look strong but more of an unusual ballet pose. I have also sketched out the head a bit better on the snakes for the front sketch but I still need to do the fairies and then I can get to it.
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