Easter Update and Critique with Sharon and Salvatore

Over the Easter break, I worked on the plot of my Archaeopteryx story and planned what will happen. Using rough experiments with watercolour and copic markers, I did several drawings to play around with possible scene orders and storylines and have come out with a finalised plot.
The story will be based around Archie the Archaeopteryx, who is bullied by two Pterodactyls named Perry and Terry because he cannot fly despite having wings. Archie longs for a friend who accepts him, so he sets out to leave the forest.
Along his journey through mountains and snow, he encounters many dinosaurs but has no luck making friends. Exhausted, Archie settles down in a cave for the night only to discover that is is home to a small pink Diplodocus, named Daisy. The two become great friends.

Here are my initial character doodles for Daisy

A few of my watercolour and copic scene plans

As a little extra to accompany my book, I will be making figurines of both Archie and Daisy using polymer clay. I have used polymer clay before when doing my art A level in order to make large sculptures, and for this reason I am very comfortable using it. My figurines will be bulked out with an inner wire skeleton and aluminium foil, to ensure that they do not collapse when they are baked. I will document the process when I get around to making them.

Critique with Sharon and Salvatore

I met with Sharon and Salvatore yesterday to discuss my progress with my Extinction project. They both really enjoyed the story and had a few suggestions for how I can improve. Salvatore suggested working larger and making my scenes more convincing, as some of the jungle scenes I had depicted looked rather modern. They also suggested for me to play with the use of shadows in the scenes with the large dinosaurs to convey intimidation. They want me to prepare a mock up book of roughs to convey the flow of the story in preparation for next week's meeting.