Narrative: Looking to the Clock tower- WIP

What I've been working on all week. I'm almost done fiddling with the perspective on the tower with some edits that need to be made. The characters are posing a problem.

Character Subtitute Sketches

Trying to keep on track with what I'm doing each class.

I'm finding it hard to sketch this style on the tablet, so I've drawn each character's scene by hand to speed up the process and move on to the line work.

Modified Character Design

I spent most of my Saturday and Friday redesigning the style of my main characters for my narrative. Jenny's line thickness is a bit much, so I will be leaning more towards Alexander's line thickness since I'll be adding color and shading to their forms.

Dark Clock Tower

The dark world clock tower design. Snakes wind around the body of the structure. Their heads hold orbs that light the entryway.

5 Narrative images

The following are the 5 images that tell a short narrative about Alexander and Jenny jumping through the clock tower and into the other world. The black boarder around the image is where the frame will be.

 The first image, reading right to left because they start in the light world.

 

 Second image, Jenny pulls Alexander towards the mysterious glowing crack.

  

 This image sits above the centerpiece image and forms the arc that plays throughout the images.

 The falling arc of the two characters jumping into the dark world. Not the final clock tower design.

Final image stops the flow movement with Jenny giving Alexander a spell book. The narrative ends in the dark world.

A mock of narrative images within the frame.

Final Frame Examples

I am considering this frame shape or something close to it for my digital paintings. The flat colored frame on the top would be a simple boarder with no edges sloping in towards the image, but the bottom is an example of a beveled edge for the frame.


My BFA advisor is interested in the idea for the frame and wants me to build it in the wood shop here on campus. We looked over some frame ideas that may be feasible to work with.

 This is a more detailed example of the beveled frame, however it could have one bevel or some slope to draw the eye into the frame.

 

This is more simplistic, yet the thickness of the edges makes it pleasing. 

This poster is a general concept of what my frame is imitating by using the circles above to surround a central image.

Final Frame Sketch

This is the rough sketch of the frame I have chosen and I will post a cleaner version very soon.

I am planning on taking the frame to the wood shop and creating an art nouveau design to compliment the artwork. I will have a total of 8 digital paintings. The top 5 circles will tell the narrative between Jenny and Alexander, the clock tower will be in the middle and have the cracked glass and on either side will be the dark world on the left and the light world on the right.

The circular images will be about 12 inches in diameter, the center image will be 3 feet long by 1.5 feet wide and the two images on the side will be roughly 3 feet in long and 1.5 feet at the widest width. The shape comes from a window design I had found on an art nouveau building design by Gaudi.