The next assignment we have been given is to do anything we want for Halloween. So basically to create a Halloween Creature, it can be ghostly, zombie-like, witch-like and so on. So once again im creating some moodboards to create ideas and expand upon some ideas I may already have. This week im going to put more work in to the research side, and do some more research sketches before diving in to the final piece, as I feel for the past couple of weeks I rush everything in order to start the final piece as soon as possible.

I'm not sure at this moment in time what direction I will head in, so Im going to create some more mood boards in order to generate some more ideas of what I would like to do.

My final tree Idea I completed was from my second sketch. I'm pretty happy with how its turned out. I especially like the owl! I also really like the use of light. 

It's totally different from what i'm comfortable in doing, but I enjoyed doing this particular assignment. 

Here are two very quick sketches (both took about 5 minutes and under to complete) for the tree assignment. One is quite cartoony in appearance and the other is quite ghostly looking. I'm trying to play around with it, and if possible make it quite Halloween themed and spooky. 

At this moment in time I am not sure which one I will go ahead and use for my final piece. 

For the next assignment we have to create a tree character. This does not mean a tree with a face though. 

I wanted to do my second mood board with all black and white pictures, as I feel it makes the pictures very spooky looking, especially it being so close to Halloween!

To expand upon my dolphin idea I decided to do another mood board aimed at looking at the 02 building itself, cloud formations and reflections in water. 

Whilst doing this mood board I still wanted to focus on light pastel shades if I could. 

This is a sketch I have quickly done of a Dolphin jumping over a cloud. I might expand upon this idea and make that cloud look like the 02 arena, however it would still be in the form of a cloud. So far so good with this assignment, I'm enjoying being able to create whatever I want, with no restrictions what so ever. However at this moment in time I'm a bit worried to push my thoughts and ideas too far, as I have a feeling that I will be disappointed with my end result because of my drawing skills not living up to what I have in my head. 

The colours i'm going for are going to be light pastel shades, as I want it to feel dream like, like everything has been caught in a haze.  

Whilst looking at some images on google for my Surrealism assignment I came across a really interesting painting that I absolutely love. 

It's by Norman Duenas. I love the use of the butterfly wing and the colours, and the idea of using the clock as a tiara or some sort of head-dress. I think overall it's just a really interesting piece.