Tree scans & watercolour digital composition

Following on from the tree studies I did a more developed version of the protesting tree which I absolutely adore! I love this as a visual and I really think it brings the idea of a fairy take world to life. I have made the choice that this book will be digitally composed from a small selection of hand drawn elements which will be duplicated. This is both to save time and to save using endless sheets of watercolour paper to draw out the trees! Much like why I have done a digital letterpress type.


The addition of the protest sign to the trees 'hand' doesn't really work in a hand rendered manner so editing them all digitally was always going to help with that.

I produced a selection of final tree ink drawings to be scanned in, alongside the water colour tree rubbing;







And protest signs on the handmade paper;
 

I don't necessarily think that they are my best tree studies ever but they certainly now look more realistic and individual - before they all looked kind of samey.


Watercolour scan;


The digital composition of the trees I have done thus far;

(This is the first one I did)


Not too sure what has happened with the transparency with this one but I quite like the effect is has ^ it might be good to have different colour/shade intensities, to add to the realism of the book!


I am just absolutely obsessed with these! They all work so well and I really think they will bring this book to life. Of course some are better than others and I still need to decide what each protest poster will say but that's quite small thing to do so not an issue per say.








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