Folk Tale Week - Thumbnails and Character Building

Having played around with the narrative for folktale week, I thumb nailed out my ideas and started working on the details on the main character.

Thumbnails

I want to ensure there is a magical, folky feel to the panels, I'll achieve this by using a fantastical size for the tree, having cottage/stone built style houses, gas style lamps in the street. 

Although the thumb nails are very quick drafts it's made me realise that I want to go with a more natural colour pallet, but keeping the pink sky!

Character

Working fictionally is very new to me, but it's exciting to create something from scratch. Keeping the character simple and identifiable was important to me, and hopefully I created that with a distinct outfit and clear colour usage. As well as something easily replicated.

This exercise is definitely pushing my out of my comfort zone. I often shy away from using figures in my work, but having the Fool in each panel is really important to the story, so I'm excited to get going on the actual art pieces.