Sunbather Scene: Papercuts in progress

With the last month looming, I decided to focus my attention on making imagery for final images. My making process is very long and each scene I make will need me to spend hours on different elements: characters, backgrounds and other objects if needed.

I have sought out different pinpoints of their time in Trinidad:

- Their journey from England by boat.
- Their first house and its surroundings.
-Lifestyle in Trinidad/ The expat community.
-Working in Trinidad
-Raising a Child in Trinidad
- Sport

Starting with the first, I decided to start with a sunbather scene on the boat deck. This I felt pinpoints how they already started to experience tropical climates on their journey to Trinidad. They are surrounded by some company. This gives the sense that they are not the other ones moving abroad and there was expat community that they were joining.  Without looking too much into, I think it will be a cheery image that will introduce the scenes well.

Note: My technique has taken a different route. It was noted by a few of my peers that my current drawing out of each character, then splitting them into layers before even starting with the paper construction was perhaps a pointless activity. It was suggested that I trace straight from the image to ensure the right proportions and then work out the layers from there. I was very reluctant to do so at first as I felt it betrayed my ability to draw. However, after trying the tracing technique on the third character of this scene, I realised this technique was much quicker. In the end the final product of each image is the papercut. I was basically copying the shapes of the people in the photograph anyway.