Here is my Boeing 747 American Airlines mood board: 

I tried to get a range of images from different angles, with it in flight and on the ground.

For our next assignment we have been given two weeks to complete it as we have been given the task of creating a plane crash. 

"Your scenario is: an aircraft (Boeing 747, American Airlines) has crash landed in New York, (Lower East Side area). The plane has come to rest smashed into a building. The fuselage is broken but largely intact. Parts of the aircraft have broken off and rubble and wreckage is strewn around with some smoke and fire. Our hero character (white male, 30, dark hair, T shirt, jeans) was on-board but has miraculously survived the crash and is standing stunned before the wreckage (to give the scene scale, drama and a focal point for the viewer). The director isn't sure which time of day will work best for this scene and wants you to produce alternatives for him to consider". 

So for this assignment I am going to do multiple mood boards, looking at Boeing 747 American Airlines planes, New York (focusing on the lower east side as much as possible), fire, explosions, smoke, rubble, broken buildings. I am also going to have to research how plane crashes and explosions are depicted in films and games to get a sense of how they happen. 

I am looking forward to this assignment as it is something so grand and exciting to work on, however the sheer size of the assignment is quite scary as well! and along with doing this assignment I need to practice my perspective drawing. 

So here is my final piece completed. I'm really happy with it. 

The additional research before I started this particular piece really helped me judge what direction I wanted to go in before I started sketching. As soon as I did the doll mood board and really thought about it, I knew that is the route I wanted to head down. I really like her facial expression, as I think it's really spooky and very intense! and I also quite like the hair because it's fun and crazy and I could really play around making it. 

I'm starting to get there with my final piece...still have quite a bit to do before it's finished.

Slowly, week by week, I feel I'm improving a little bit. 

Here is a quick sketch I have done of a female dolls head, this sketch took me about 15 to 20 minutes to get to this stage, most of the time I spent on making the features more pronounced and less 'sketchy' looking . I'm not too happy with the mouth so I may experiment with different mouths and see which one I like best. At the moment I quite like this face as I think its intense as well as spooky. 

At this moment in time I'm not sure what her hair will look like, I've got a couple of ideas for it to be really curly and outrageous, but I'm also thinking of having a really slicked back pony-tail type style, but just like with the mouths I think I will experiment with different hair types as well until I find one that 'fits'. 

Here are some quick sketches which took about 5 minutes to do. I found some photos on the Internet and decided I wanted to do very brief sketches of them, to get an idea of how to make them spooky, and what 'feel' they should have. I definitely think I'm going to go down the root of a spooky doll. 

I wanted to stick to very basic colours because they're very basic sketches so I didn't want to over complicate them. 

For this Halloween assignment I thought it might be a good idea to look at China Dolls and Dolls in general as I used to find them quite scary when I was younger! (sometimes still do!!) and even though many dolls have been used for Halloween type things, its not a choice that people would necessarily think about off the top of their head. So I've created a mood board of scary dolls, still have not decided if I'm only going to do one of these mood boards, or if I'm going to do another.

To be honest I find all of them quite scary! I think that it would be an interesting route to take, but I'm not sure if I will definitely head that way as of yet.