Value Studies Cont.

I've decided to further develop one of my Value Studies in response to the Group Teaching session that we had on the 16th. Below you can see the development and the variations I have come up with from this particular silhouette.

As you can see, from the first development of the Silhouette I have created a number of different variations in much greater detail. The first development itself was one that I felt wasn't good enough to be worked on any further, but a lot of people said that they preferred this particular work. So I decided to experiment with it a bit more, and this is what I came up with. Below are the three developments in a larger image, and a brief explanation of what I was thinking with each.

With this image, I was inspired to give my character a torn flag because I saw a number of Value Studies in Group Teaching that incorporated flags and I liked how this was done, and also to represent the soldiers dismissal from the military. He has his weapon drawn to highlight his brutality and vicious nature, and has bandages around one eye to illustrate what he has lost in his past, and the wars he has been in. His uniform is torn, but still wearable and his backpack holds all of his possessions.

This Value Study depicts the soldier leaning on his gun to walk and I wanted to use this to show the distance he has traveled prior to meeting the witch. His weapon is still drawn, but is lowered as if to show the soldiers violent nature has been slightly tamed in his travels. I wanted to experiment with the hat and coat, so I made his hat smaller and coat longer just to see how it would look.

The third and final variation of this value study shows the character leaning on his torn flag, furthering the idea of his tiresome journey and the longevity of his travels. His hat remains the same, but his eye patch and short coat have been returned in this study, and his sword is now sheathed to show that the journey has almost completely tamed his violent nature. Finally, I developed the backpack to have more compartments and a second role of fabric.