OUGD503 - Studio Brief 02 - Further Texture Production

Since most of the texture samples we collected from the moors didn't work as well as we hoped, we decided to further experiment and explore the use of texture. For this production process, we initially thought about what scenes, objects and characters we need to design for, thinking particularly about the various textures which would typically be found within these scenes.

Hallway
- wallpaper/ floor (back of lino)
- stairs/ coat hanger/ hats and coats hung on them
- picture frames/ mirror on walls

Rocky steps
- stones/ trees/ moor scenery

Stone piles
- stone textures
- fairy house (stone piles)/ doors on these
- moor scenery in the background
- smaller details like mushrooms/ ladybirds

Laughing birds
- moor scenery/ close-up of the ground/ wildlife and plants
- tea party scene (checked cloth, teacups, teapot, cakes, jelly)

Waterfall/ the sailor
- water/ boat (wooden frame texture)
- rocky texture/ stones/ grassland/ smaller elements of grass and stone around the waterfall

Mud
- brown colours and textures/ splats
- (Revised plot - Louie jumps into the mud, his sisters tell him not to get dirty/ pretend it's quicksand)

Figure in the woods
- trees/ forest floor/ stoney pathway through the middle
- shadow/ dark figures
- potential night scene - moon/ stars

In order to make these textures seem more realistic, we also used some reference imagery from our trip to the moors in order to help accurately recreate textures. Most of these were done using black ink along with an array of objects to produce wacky textures, some which had no apparent connection to the story but produced some interesting effects which can be translated for use in the story. The use of this black ink meant that we can easily manipulate these in changing their colours through digital means if needed to suit the illustrations. Objects we used to paint and print with included the standard paintbrush, natural objects collected from the moors such as sticks, moss, leaves and pinecones, along with other found materials such as sponges, foil, chopsticks and a spoon. However, we did not restrict ourselves to black ink, we also used some aspect of colour for certain textures we thought would be easier to recreate using the relevant colours, such as water and grass so that we could combine different tones together in these.

Examples of produced textures: