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I know taking scenes from the film would be a missive no no but I watched the films and really fell in love with some of the parts in it. Because I'm slightly at a stuck stage I drew some scenes from the film but with my own twist just to try and get the gears going and also to keep me motivated in the project.

I tried to creat my own look for characters as described in the book I wanted to give it my gritty comic styl. Even though this is a rough sketch, just jotting down the ideas I still liked it. M thinking about pushing this forward. 

Maybe experiment in a way that I could make this possible to work as a print in two colours.

A quick rough of the expression from the hitman from the same scene as above.

Character from the movie no country for old men.

Scene from the motel were the hitman kills the Mexicans 

There's not much description about the man and the boy in the book the road. But this is how I imagined the character to look. But now iv given him a face I think it will take away the hes acne of the surrounding for the viewers of my print. I want to location to give the atmosphere and the emotion. I don't want the faces to tell it.

Because my work is leaning towards toe locations of survival and the atmosphere of them I think it's super important that it's the location that tell that in my images no the poeple. But it needs poeple to show that it's lonely if I didn't have people in my image it will just look like an abanded place, I want it to show that people are trying to survive in this shit location.

I drew this idea with what I said before in mind, I can't have the faces showing but I need the characters to be there. I liked having the them looking away now there's no expression on the face the scene will tell the story but there presents will explore the story.

A rubbish rough for a idea I had but soon realised it would work as a print or even a drawing that explained the road. 

A location piece from the road again, the huge manner that the skinny a are found in the basment.

Another location from the road. The underground bunker that was found full of food and wormth.

No country for old men is basically two men wanting the same thing and having a chase off. 

I wanted to create somthing that shows what the both want and what is happening.

Both silhouettes share the money symbol in there harts 

The black silhouette has the running silhouette in side him because he has the money that he wants.

A little playful and hard to explain on a screen, but after discussing this image with Ben it's definitely one of the images I'm going to push forward.

In this rough I wanted to show the journey that the characters are headed down is one that may lead to the death of them, because in all McCarthy books it's appall the characters know the were they are headed is going to be hard to survive be it a Forrest, in a desert or even in a cafe shoot out.

I tried to make the tree branches take form of a skull. I pipits been 50 50 so far a few people see it and a few people don't, but I'm happy with that my initial idea was not to be able to see it, I wanted to be seen at a decent glance.

 

A few pages of thumb nails and ideas for some locations and maybe something to work forward to for a final image. I had 30 mins of good ideas just dropping from my head into the sketch book, in tutorials, group cries and talks with tutors,, these quick thumb nails have been the most talked about in my sketch book. Just shows quick drawing and quick mental journaling is just as good as sat there for a few hours rendering and idea

This is an experiment with back grounds for one of the earlier thumbnails. This is black watercolour with vodka painted over the top. It's separates the paint. Really happy with it, the scene is the south coats from the road. 

Colour and back ground techniques.

This one is a bit abstract, using too colours to try and create a back ground that could describe the think dense air in the road for a future piece. Too thick and I have no idea howi what can bring this effect into print.

Watercolour painting with ink flicked onto it whilst wet.

Worked well with an image over the top of it. More research and experiments to be done to find the right drawing that should over lap this style and colour

This was an ink background I was working on for the road scene. I tried to go for a thick fog that almost looks like pollution. When I have some illustration that I'm happy with ill play around with. These on photoshop and see what background works the best out of all the experiments and then I'll push the experiments more.

Again some more roughs from my sketch book.

The next lot of roughs was me responding to a talk with my tutors they suggested that I play around with finding new ways to express aloness and survivor and all the other key elements. To try to come away from the road scenes and to create my own scenes that still drawn and created in the way mcarthy has written his scenes.

When I was drawing this I was really happy even though it's a crummy rough, to look at it you saw a man pushing his trolley on a road that hasn't been touched for some time with vans and bikes wrecked on it. It looked so large and deep in scale, you got the sense of that lonely location and that the man is on his own surviving. Until I used that shit grey ink pen and it ruined it. Made the sky look closer than the character and it lost all that nice feel that iv been working towards.

I'll work on that image after some more roughs and experiments with this scene.

I took the image of the man and the boy from before and refined it out of my sketch book and on to A4 cartridge I scanned the image into photoshop. Not to create a final image for the project but just to make some refined work and to experiment with two colours. I don't understand print very well and I definitely will struggle to work with only two colours so it will benefit me if I start to get some understanding of colours and certain prints. Because they are done digital dosnt mean I'm aiming to do it in that it's just a quick way I can play around and get an understanding.

The only thing crafted by hand is the characters, I didtitily added the white tree and the sun. I think if I was to go digital I should I should draw every element and and then add the colours so it still has the main hand crafted feel.

I'm real happy with the image below, less is more and all that. I think the colour and the barrenness of the image does work well and does tell a story. Maybe not a postapocalyptic world but decently on the right road to what I'm trying to get across