Figure Drawing Final

For the final project in Figure Drawing, we were to create a large picture with several figures, and it was supposed to tell some kind of a story.

I decided to make a children's art illustration, since that is one of the fields I'm interested in developing my art for.  

But at the time I was working on it, there were just a few days available to complete the work, and I would be taking a trip to San Francisco (taking part in a song competition!) over three of the four days.  So wasn't sure how to make the picture large . . . it needed to fit in a small suitcase.

So I ended up making a series of panels, that would go together to tell the whole story.

​The work is done in ink and color pencil.  Here are some of the panels:

As you can see, the "story" for this picture is about communication--
​old ways and new ways :)

​It took a lot of tries to get the sketch accurate for the swinging child; and I could tell the figure drawing practice I'd had in the class was useful :)

Here is the whole picture; I put a "frame" around the panels (like window panes) to finish it up- this is something added after the final presentation in class; I just barely had time to complete photoshop edits and get the panels printed for that . . .

Something I noticed after completion was that the kids look like they're dressed for warm weather, but this is a winter tree (!)  Also, I think it needs more branches . . . so maybe I will do some edits to this digitally, in the future, to develop the illustration and make it be spring or summer.  But overall, it was a good project and I liked making a children's art illustration that is also a story in itself.