Final Piece

After finishing both the value and colour studies, I then quickly moved onto the final piece.After gaining an idea what I'd like to create during the studies, I then changed my perspective as I felt the value and colour studies both to be rather flat. By changing the perspective, I finally finished my first draft of the image found below:

I then elaborated on detail adding in my character, mist and adjusting the colours before I finally had finished.

Thumbnails

The thumbnails are required to be 500 x 250 pixels, although to achieve different perspectives and effects I decided that I'd do two 500 x 250 and two 250 x 500. The images do lack detail, but I didn't want to waste a great deal of time during this stage, rather achieve a rough detail-less outline to use as reference. I also experimented with different shades of colour as exampled below:

Project 1 - Part 2

Environments

The second section of the assignment requests us to create an environment, one in which we can present our character in.

Before research, I already have four ideas in mind which fit suitably around my character. Listed and elaborated below:

• Prison (alternatively, place of execution) - this idea was sprung to mind as I thought it'd be interesting as it was here where the shoe makers boy and the samurai first met, this could be a picture of reminiscence. 
• Courtyard, or town (overlooking palace, alternatively town from palace) - another idea was the shoe makers boy with his new status in a palace, or alternatively in a Japanese themed town.
• Tree - the tree plays a big part of the story as it's here where the story originally begins. 

I'll be doing four sketches in total which I'll then further develop. I started looking for inspirational images which I've inserted below, I couldn't find any images of a prison during the Edo Japan period so thought I'd scrap the idea.