Comic Art

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Final look at the Chocolate Factory

I decided to use real sweets and chocolate to decorate the landscape as it gives a more realistic feel with the different colours and textures.

- chocolate buttons

-strawberry laces

- jelly tots

- nerd rocks

- licorice all sorts 

 

 

Painting the landscape

The one struggle I had with this process was painting the 'waterfall' and applying the texture of the saw dust to a surface of that angle. The paint seemed to separate from the saw dust and ran down to the bottom of the waterfall, leaving just the saw dust stuck to the surface without the brown colouring. I had to do several coats of just brown paint over the saw dust to compensate for the effect of gravity.

 

 

 

 

Testing the paint.

 I mixed paint with pva and water. the water was to thin out the consistency as I later added saw dust into the paint mix to create a grass texture when it dries. The PVA was to help the saw dust stick together and stay on the surface of the plaster of paris.

I then put some patches of plaster of paris onto some spare foam in order to test how the paint would settle on the surface.

structures

Blue foam covered with plaster of paris to give the same texture as the rest of the surfaces.

In order to make a perfectly round structure I used round objects and cut out several pieces of foam sheet to create the different layers. This structure is meant to represent the part of the Chocolate room where the Umpa-Lumpa's come from when singing their song. I also covered that platform with plaster of paris to give the same texture as the rest of the landscape.