The introduction to this publication will be a page that heavily texts with a small spot illustration. the text will discuss the Leeds, its history and its haunting. An introduction that sets the tone of voice of the book, what's to be expected of the pages forward from this.
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the introduction, the publication will explore places of Leeds and their hauntings (single pages for each location. 4 - 5 pages of. after this a short page comic of a location like a railway ghost. after this will be spot illustrations and stories of a bigger location such as the abbey. the publication will follow this pattern. single page location, comic, the bigger location. The plan is to add interior illustration (pin-ups) of a story told within one image.
From my research, I have found a selection of places that I will use for the solo location pages for the start of the publication. The Ship Inn Pub, The graves by the train tracks, The city centre, Woodhouse square
The graves By the train tracks
This location has numerous reports of sightings from the public. people have claimed to believe that they have seen figures standing over the graves on the banking. this has been sighted from people walking past and near the location. there are reports that passengers on trains have witnessed this also. all reports say that each of them believed they were living people until they noticed the clothing was aged and from another period and some encounters have said they have no legs from the knees down but stand as if they have legs.
All the locations that I document I have visited and done researched and sketch at. This one was a fun one to draw, whereIi was stood made the perfect composition. you can slightly see the bridge for the train tracks. there is a vision of depth for the with the way the graves lay and translate in this drawing.
In render of this, I added the another tree into the picture... a tree that sat out of my vision, I basically moved the tree in the shot to create better depth and that allowed me to add more shadow so that would help that atmosphere and that creepy feeling comes through.
The ship in pub
Reports have been made that a ghost from the medieval pages has been seen running down the alley and through walls. it's been said that they have seen the ghost of a young boy crouched down as if he his scrambling with something on the floor but only one-half of his ghost was visible as the other half was in the wall.
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Dock street
there weren't any reports of haunting on the street dock but I used this image for the reports of the hauntings of Leeds streets. there was far too many to do an illustration for each location. I found the most interesting composition and what I consider to have the most historical look to it to represent the street reports.
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Woodhouse square
Woodhouse square has a lot of history when it comes to reports of paranormal activity. Reports of a woman staring at a portrait in front of patients at the dentist, A woman's laughter been heard by staff, A monk has been seen walking the roads of the square, people have been chased by low formed manifestations across the park, loads! so it was important as an entertaining point of view to have this active location in the publication.
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Temple Newsam House
Temple Newsam countless reports of hauntings, blue lady, a running monk, a young woman, a highwayman, a swinging glow of a lamp. I chose this angle because it reminds me of the shot of batmen's hotel in psycho...I thought that this would work in my publication. maybe it will remind the readers the same, and relate more to a scary situation.
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Leeds Beckett uni (boooooooo)
I was intrigued by the story of the butler what is said to haunt this place...stories of the butler been seen dropping from a spiral staircase, him manifesting in dorms, been seen sat by students beds and seen crying by the hall doors. a less of a creepy story from the others I have got but I wanted to use it because out of all the material I have it's the one that makes my imagination work with the story the most. I can see in my mind the halls, the clothes of the butler, the way he stands...maybe that's my concept head taking over but if I get this reaction then maybe the readers will too.
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LGI.
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leeds street
I dragged this street from the net so not to sure where it is, I did this becuase I didn't intend using another haunted home as a topic in the publication, felt it was a little much, but the last min I decided to do it as peers said it must be in.
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I created this image to be used as a backdrop for the introduction text.
like other books I want the publication to open to a blank page then into the introduction but I don't want the pages just to be heavy text I want there to be images that help tell the story. I used the square outside the train station as that's the first thing you see when you visit Leeds...so it seemed rather fitting to have that as the first think you see in my publication.
This drawing isn't accurate at all. I moved the position of the statue more to the foreground so I could get the building in the background and some sky to better show the location...I think it works well, its better than having the statue behind a solid black mass that doesn't give anything away from its wear about.
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I decided to make a quick drawing for the opening page just to keep it interesting. I decided to do leads symbol the owl. it's the owl that originates from Leeds coats of arms. I don't want this image to be as striking as the rest. I want it to be toned down and interesting enough to want people to turn the page.
Apart from the above 2. introduction illustration and the opening page (owl) the Illustrations won't have text on them, it was my original idea to have the text of the stories positioned around the illustration, Now the solo locations will be a 2 page spread, one side the image and the other the text. this allows me to be able to add more of the stories into my publication and allow my illustrations to have more focus. The intentions of this publication were to be more visual than text. Doing this achieves my intentions
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