Week 2- Finding Thumbelina

This week I continued with Thumbelina sketches though I love how the look they did not fit particularly well with Thumbelina's description. In the book Thumbelina is described as "delicate, frail" and "quite slim." So looked into having her design reflect those aspects.

early concept line up, though I like 1,2 and 3, 5 is closer to the books description

I was struggling with how to design her face, as there isn't any description past her being "beautiful" in the books. I was given the suggestion from Zhane James-Marshall  to look into what was considered beautiful back in 18th century Denmark. When researching Hans Christen Anderson, there was some information on his unrequited loves, so I used them as a basis for some character studies, with Jenny Lind a Danish singer being my main inspiration.

final study

at the end of the week I took a break from designing Thumbelina and instead looked into potential styles for my illustrations. A flat textured style was the original plan for this project, but I felt like this needed testing, so I took one of the earlier concepts of Thumbelina and coloured her.

Though I like how this looks at the moment I do want to see how a painted form complex style would look like.