Week one cont.

Later on during the first week I was still stuck for ideas, not wanting to do something obvious as I felt it was boring, but struggling to find some different, until a friend was talking about his WW1 idea, and I suddenly thought of WW1 propaganda with its posters and the pin up girls. Straight away I liked this idea and began to research into it and found a really useful website(http://www.ww1propaganda.com/) which showed hundreds of propaganda posters from various countries and with various themes. I started first by looking at women used in these pictures and found a whole selection of them as well as nurses within the propaganda posters. I found many which I would have been quite happy to look into and felt I could quite happily choose one of these images which are shown below

I did of course look at male figures during WW1 such as those in the war and Doctors and various others, but I felt this was too obvious and other people in the class would be doing it. Another reason for this is because there is this style I like and I wanted to see if I can incorporate this style into my piece, and I have seen this done mostly with female models. I have seen this style done by a number of people in the past, but the most recent one which stuck out to me is Andrew Hickinbottom, where his work can be found at http://www.andrewhickinbottom.com/ . I really like the style in these models as its quite 'cartoony' with some of the features often being exaggerated. Also with the colours, I like how they are quite bright and clean and all seem to pop out, It has almost a Pixar like appearance to it. Here are two images I have shown which show off the style, and are also done in a way to look like a pin up girl.

I especially like the one on the left, as it has a very old fashioned look to it, and if you were to see it quickly you could mistake it for being 2D. I also really like the way the skin looks, very clean colours and I feel it just has a nice soft texture to it. I would like to make my character using this style, and although I imagine it will be hard to do this I would like the try it.

In my next post I will have decided on an image and began on a mood board and sketches, as well as various ideas for the diorama piece it will be placed on.