COMFIRMATORY STAGE ILLUSTRATION
THE GREATEST KNIGHT COncept Design
Final OutcOme Freya Stanley
SiR William MaRshall The Peerless Knight and ‘Sir Lancelot’
YOung King Henry The ‘Present Day’ King Arthur
Richard The LiOn Heart Richard I
YOung Capetian Queen MaRgaritte
EVALUATION AND CONCLUSION In all honesty I am proud of what I’ve managed to both create and bring together in my final piece. When I went into this final stage, I was scared that I won’t meet my deadline let alone create anything of value, or even inspire the emotion of pride. However with much tribulation and encouragement here I am, at the end and lots to show for it. Now my only big experience with digital art previously had been in the pathway stage; illustrating ‘The Brave Little Tailor’. Beyond that my experiences and knowledge are rather limited. The reason why I so desperately wished to learn and be able to use digital art effectively is because it is the medium of which the majority of games are now designed on. I own a wide variety of concept art books of which nearly all have their art done on tablets. I won’t lie, I wish I had more time to learn and correct my work as I went along. I wanted to hand in something spectacular that would compare to the professionals that I aspire to be like one day. However I had neither the time nor the skill to perform such a feat. I’ve learnt and incredibly amount about anatomy, facial structure, facial lines and mouths [my weakest feature by far]. Colour and painting horses, which I have to admit I’m still not stellar at, but all in due time. I would have liked to have spent more time on Henry II and Eleanor’s faces but that was not to be as I started them far too late to get any serious work done on them. Overall I’m very pleased with my main character, the man who inspired it all; William Marshall. His initial concept took me weeks. I hummed and harred over his look and eventually 5 weeks in changed it - using the first look as my foundation for the second. His armour kept changing until I settled on a design that I felt was both practical as well as impressive enough for a man of his stature and calibre. To reiterate, I am happy with my work - not over the moon, but oddly satisfied. I worked hard and pressed myself into trying to learn as much as I could. These skills will stand me in good stead and therefore I am satisfied, not only in my work but also in my achievement; I feel it’s fair to say I’ve tried as hard as I can, and I hope my work reflects that.
SOFTWARE[S]; Photoshop CS5 Sketchbook Pro OTHER MATERIALS; Black Ink & BrushPen Drawing Pencils and Pens RESOURCES All information and inspiration was gather from Thomas Asbridge’s ‘The Greatest Knight’