One of the msot significant scenes in the novel, is when one of the characters has a dream of when he was a child, and waking up on Christmas day to find a man in a gas mask and his dads army suit, dancing with his dead mother to the song "White Christmas". I decided to include this image into my title sequence as it's a significant theme throughout but also doesn't give too much of the storyline away.
I initially used ballet dancers as reference photos because of the slender and limp poses. This sketch was a warm up sketch of me trying to grasp the shapes and lines of the bodies, and also experimenting with the mediums.
I tried not to focus too much on the detail of the face because my idea is to have a very abstract and strange feel to the title sequence. On the left I referenced a ballet dancer again in order to understand the shapes of the body, and also create an understand of the ark of the back in order for me to create a sense of weight to the limp body. On the left, I referenced a life drawing image. I tried to pay close attention again to certain parts of the body that would express a feel of lifelessness in the body. After this sketch, I realised that it would be too much to have the character obviously naked. I also realised that it would stray away from the imagery of his mother being dead and naked in a creepy mans arms. I came to the conclusion that I would create images that lacked detail in certain areas to make it less provocative.
Here, I attempted to create an image of a woman stood up right. I tried to have less detail in certain areas in order to give the impression of a limp and naked body, but not give too much away. I feel like I lost touch of the weight of the body because the pose isn't very dynamic. My next step is the focus on studying dynamic poses for me to develop my drawing practice of creating weight and limpness in the body.
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