You need some accent colours now - take a look at sea anenomes and coral colours - something to bring some high-points into the mix - also, you might want to think of some steps or links to the cauldron area - via platforms or jetties made of leg bones or something similarly creepy. Maybe you should consider too having a single beam of light coming down centrally, like a column on the cauldron. In terms of bold, creepy use of colour - you should look again at the Night on a Bald Mountain section from Fantasia:
phosphorescence (as in deep sea fish - this idea of having stuff 'glow' in the deep dark belly of the sea could be another way to enliven your thinking about this space - especially in terms of how the witch might light her cavern - imagine - the witch using shoals of glowing fish or jellyfish to light her chamber...)
I reckon you should park this thumbnail now - and draw some more - don't get locked into the idea of this thumbnail having to 'be the one' - take a breath - and take another run up - draw some new stuff, and maybe consider applying some of the new ideas in a 'one-by-one' way.
Remember thumbnails are cheap - make more, chuck them away, make new ones!
You need some accent colours now - take a look at sea anenomes and coral colours - something to bring some high-points into the mix - also, you might want to think of some steps or links to the cauldron area - via platforms or jetties made of leg bones or something similarly creepy. Maybe you should consider too having a single beam of light coming down centrally, like a column on the cauldron. In terms of bold, creepy use of colour - you should look again at the Night on a Bald Mountain section from Fantasia:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ca_edg6RE
Some other ideas for colour palettes etc.
Mother of pearl:
http://www.ilbottone.it/ENG/images/mother-of-pearl.jpg
http://prlo.aps.org/files/focus/v20/st1/nacre1_BIG.jpg
phosphorescence (as in deep sea fish - this idea of having stuff 'glow' in the deep dark belly of the sea could be another way to enliven your thinking about this space - especially in terms of how the witch might light her cavern - imagine - the witch using shoals of glowing fish or jellyfish to light her chamber...)
http://utterblackness.com/GlowingFish.jpg
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/glowing-animal-pictures/images/primary/090514-01-glowing-jellyfish_big.jpg
http://www.johndcook.com/jellyfish.jpg
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/234/cache/deepest-ocean-species-camera-australia-19_23465_600x450.jpg
I reckon you should park this thumbnail now - and draw some more - don't get locked into the idea of this thumbnail having to 'be the one' - take a breath - and take another run up - draw some new stuff, and maybe consider applying some of the new ideas in a 'one-by-one' way.
Remember thumbnails are cheap - make more, chuck them away, make new ones!