Below are some thumbnail sketches where I have outlined what I would like to include in my environment.
I started off by sketching some of the ideas I had for the boats and architecture:
In unreal engine I made a simple block out that I would be able to draw over for the thumbnails.
As I was thumbnailing I realised the elements of my environment felt disconnected, so in the fourth thumbnail I tried to harmonise them.
For my thumbnails, I thought about some of the composition advice from the book Framed Ink and I applied methods of perspective drawing from Scott Robertson’s How to Draw.
Mateu-Mestre, M. (2015). Framed ink : drawing and composition for visual storytellers. Culver City, Ca: Design Studio Press.
Robertson, S. and Bertling, T. (2013). How to draw : drawing and sketching objects and environments from your imagination. Culver City, Ca: Design Studio Press.
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