just a start and a start

Unfortunately, my sketch pads are over in class, so maybe at end of term (or when I can bring one of them; which is almost fully used) I can do a big dump of the better stuff. Started a sculpt gesture in work that I should be working on during the day (my heater that warms my feet is my best friend and my clay's best friend, too!) Also, for our class, we have to do a girl's pirate ship. Yes, much of the class will be doing boats with Hell0 K!tty flags and bows and whatnot; I"m a little more macabre. So I was thinking that these Amazonian type chicks (yes, I can use that word) are stuck on this boat and create their habitat around it. In the story, which is a suspense live action (in my head anyways), they are being picked off one by one by these guys who are a bit older than they are, kind of punks and can camouflage themselves because they look like pelicans on the water (of course it's set in the future) and have stilts for legs and all that. They are the Alph@b0ts and they feed off of the only sign of human life; the girls. (that's the gist of it; there is a subplot but I guess for design purposes I won't get into that) So we have to start with the boat. In both cases, because of the roots and the weight, the centre of gravity is pretty low down. I did a couple studies of my two beloved trees (I have a few but these rank up there); the B@nyan and the Mangr0ve. In one, the tree literally cuts through the boat, and grows through the other side, so that the tree branches (where it continues growing/offshoots) are like a balcony to the side of the boat. I guess I have to figure out the balance, because the boat would tip over for that one. For the second one, I thought that somehow in the shipwreck, the boat was flipped upside down. The tree then started growing through the centre of the boat, while providing a thick layer of roots on the base of the ship (which was the top). The tree continues to grow upwards, and the girls live on the tiers of the trees (which would make it interesting for them when they are abducted by the Alph@b0ts, and they'd have to climb up and down the tree to get to where they live (which kind of reminded me of that En!d Blyt0n book, "The Faraway Tree" (I grew up and absolutely LOVE Blyt0n!!). Anyways, since we have to do the interior of the boat, also, the roots pushing through the boat would also provide a great opportunity to light the boat (which also still contained its original port hole). So anyways here are some initial sketches, my gesture sculpt and all that. And yes, people will die in my movies when I become a professional concept artist LOL.