The Mermaid

I recently drew up some small, rough sketches depicting the story given as part of our Narrative Image Making unit. After being drawn to storyboards whilst researching and developing ideas for my final piece, I managed to condense the short story down to 9 scenes following the plot and the various characters.
The idea was to enlarge each scene up to A4. By doing this I was able to adjust lines and essentially make each image clearer and much more distinct.

Nearly all scenes are unfinished, except for the first one and although these are more detailed than my smaller studies, they still need a lot of work! I plan to add colour, additional objects and general detail on Photoshop. I'll need to scan them all in and just continue adding the characters who are absent from these drawings. I figured I'll be able to do a better job creating them digitally rather than with my own hand! You might notice scene 3 being re-used for scene 6, the reason for this is I quite like the perspective it has on the end of the boat and leaves room for me to add waves and the mermaid on Photoshop. Plus scene 3 is when the skipper decided to throw a herring at the mermaid, and scene 6 is when Donald witnesses the mermaid disappear under the water once he had thrown his herring in, I felt it made sense to retain that perspective and angle especially when both scenes are focused on the mermaid. Again I must stress that these drawings are very rough! Every time I look at them I can see them evolving into the final stages and this excites me, I am pleased that at this stage I'm maintaining momentum and continuing to develop this specific piece(s) of work.

Displaying the pieces for my presentation is the next part of the process, I'll figure that out when I need to. I'm enjoying developing these pen drawings at the moment.

Oh and I haven't created a drawing for scene 9 as I plan to create the final scene in a different vein. Since the story ends rather abruptly and mysteriously, I may look into using different materials to emphasise the scene. Then again... maybe not. It may end up too ambitious and unachievable in the time frame we have!