A encountered a quite HUGE problem with the main part in this story. THE MITTEN. I could not create one, I could not draw one, I could not even thinkk. I just kept creating oven gloves, which are entirely different things. I think I was quite worried about the quality that the image had to portray too, it had to be knittedy, soft,and it also had to be in a position in which animals could crawl into and I just couldn't get that across, I tried really detailed drawing, painting, collage, a bunch of triangles stuck together and I just couldn't do it, nothing was working. Until...
I decided not to focus on the outside straight away and instead focus on the interior, the idea that there would be a selection of various animal eyes blinking into the darkness and a bunch of animal feet poking out the bottom. So I painted what felt like a hundred black ink mittens and oven gloves, selected the best one and photocopied it. I used the hand feed on the photocopier, onto this really lovely greenygrey sugary like paper, and I got really excited with the result, blown up it created a lovely grainy soft looking texture! So I've been playing around with the inside, the eyes, the feet and I really like the way things are working out.
I'm still however unsure of how the mitten will look on the giant, so i need to figure it out, i used the above technique to make this orangey coloured one and i think witha little more work it could go upon his giant hands.
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