Leeds Haunted - Kirksall Abbey

Kirkstall abbey 

The Documentation of the site will be spot illustration of the location with one or two illustrations that describe the stories and situations. The page will be filled with comments and statements from my research of the Hauntings of the abbey. 

After gathering information and statements of the location I took a visit and took some photos for reference. When I visit locations for research and reference the photos I take are never just for the sake of it. Each photo I take is a potential shot for a panel in a comic or of a stand-alone illustration.

Here are some of the better photos I collected from my visit to help me produce the publication. 

   

Going for the comic feel for sure on this one. doing what I love the most and exaggerating the shadows to capture depth and atmosphere. 

Below are colour tests. test to see which of the two look most like the night scene.

I think both look like they are at night but the one on the left has more of a creepy feel which is what my publication is about. Note to self, that the one on the right is perfect colours for a moonlit night scene. 

 

After choosing the right colours for the dark I cleaned it up added grass and additional low tone shadows, stars and clouds.

Making the spot illustrations friendly for text. I made the image work into darkens as I plan to use the solid black space as a platform for the stories and statments.

I used the same proses as i did on the first abbey illustration to make 2 more illustrations for the publication. again the darkness to the left and right of the following images are to be covered in text.

The Hall ( window shot )


The hall ( gate shot )

So the illustrations for the pages are finished. The next and final step for these is applying the text of the stories from my research.