Another two images for my new illustration project :)
The images will all go in order and be tagged in the 'one I courted project' section, so you can follow the story there.
I'll explain a little more about the project now!
I'm doing 3 different comics which are all connected together, both visually and in story, and in theme.
All 3 comics are based on three different folk songs, which have differences between them all in melody and lyrics, but all have traces of the same words, and more or less follow the same story.
I like that the origin of the folk songs are from very different places.
One is kept on written record from Wiltshire, one has been handed down purely through being taught amongst various musicians, one comes all the way from America.
I heard the songs originally through The Cecil Sharp Project, who have done a haunting and beautiful interpretation of two variations (I'll link next time to the song and group).
Through some investigating of the number of variations, I've decided to interpret the songs as different time periods in the story teller's life.
I want to use the illustration format, and idea of weekly releases, to combine the three different songs, and bring out a build up and interpreted story from the differences and similarities of each song.
On a more experimental level, I've composed the separate images of each comic so that they can combine together. If I create some print-ready images, I'd be interested for people to print out each image as its released, and mix/match to create their own interpretations of the folk songs (for how else are folk songs developed over time? :D )
