Backgrounds are Hard

Not too long since I've returned from Japan (and have been downed by whatever my immune system decided to be susceptible to this week) I learned we were scheduled in to meet our clients and show our current ideas and work to them.

Arriving at the Glasgow Women's Library, we were shown around the building, told about their past projects and then shown the archives- which were definitely the most interesting part of the trip. The style and general attitude towards suffragists back then, I will definitely keep in mind when putting together my animation,

That day however I showed the client my sketchbook containing character designs for Muriel Matters, the roughs and storyboards inside my sketchbook, the animatic (whilst explaining what goes where, and what parts would be animated, as my animatic is still fairly lacking in detail) and some of my finalised backgrounds for the final animation.

After putting so much effort into drawing these, I could not bring myself to colour them at all. And when in the library, I considered how fitting it would be, for an animation to have a book illustrated style, in simplistic but detailed black and white.

(Had I hand drawn these onto paper, most definitely ink would have been smeared on the page and my left hand...)