The Chronicles of Narnia fan-art
So, while I was playing around on Adobe Illustrator last night (just to get the hang of what I was doing before working on my next project for class), I found a Character Kit online (thank you, Pinterest), so I decided to make some Narnia fan art! So, here ya go!
This is Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Their appearance is supposed to be more accurate to both the books' descriptions and the illustrations done by Pauline Baynes. This particular picture has Lucy's dress from her first trip into Narnia (my color reference is from the colored illustrations Baynes later did) and the others' outfits are actually from The World of Narnia Collection by Deborah Maze (it's more of a storybook adaptation of LWW with gorgeous, painting-like pictures).
If I have nothing else to do (or if I'm procrastinating on something), I might go ahead and make more outfits based on other illustrations (e.g. Lucy's dress is a different shade of blue in later colored-illustrations). Maybe I'll graduate to their adult selves and/or to other characters from the rest of the series. Or maybe I'll do this again with a different character template or maybe I'll come up with my own character design... who knows... I've got until Black Friday to mess around with Photoshop and Illustrator.
So, since I don't want to get in copyright trouble (and it's just respectful to give credit where credit is due):
The characters do not belong to me. They belong to C.S. Lewis (I think his estate officially owns the rights)
The outfit references are from Pauline Baynes and Deborah Maze (and will continue to be if I keep making these)
The "character template" was made by Nataliya Dolotko (here's the link: http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-character-kit-in-adobe-illustrator--cms-25785).
So, I finished this picture on February 23rd, 2017. If you use this picture, then I will kindly urge you to credit me. I know it doesn't look like much (and I did use someone else's "template" to get me started), but I did spend a considerable amount of time on it and would hate to join the artists-who-don't-get-credit-they-deserve club (and you would either join or stay in the people-who-don't-credit-other-people's-work-for-some-reason club... nobody likes that club).
This is Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Their appearance is supposed to be more accurate to both the books' descriptions and the illustrations done by Pauline Baynes. This particular picture has Lucy's dress from her first trip into Narnia (my color reference is from the colored illustrations Baynes later did) and the others' outfits are actually from The World of Narnia Collection by Deborah Maze (it's more of a storybook adaptation of LWW with gorgeous, painting-like pictures).
If I have nothing else to do (or if I'm procrastinating on something), I might go ahead and make more outfits based on other illustrations (e.g. Lucy's dress is a different shade of blue in later colored-illustrations). Maybe I'll graduate to their adult selves and/or to other characters from the rest of the series. Or maybe I'll do this again with a different character template or maybe I'll come up with my own character design... who knows... I've got until Black Friday to mess around with Photoshop and Illustrator.
So, since I don't want to get in copyright trouble (and it's just respectful to give credit where credit is due):
The characters do not belong to me. They belong to C.S. Lewis (I think his estate officially owns the rights)
The outfit references are from Pauline Baynes and Deborah Maze (and will continue to be if I keep making these)
The "character template" was made by Nataliya Dolotko (here's the link: http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-character-kit-in-adobe-illustrator--cms-25785).
So, I finished this picture on February 23rd, 2017. If you use this picture, then I will kindly urge you to credit me. I know it doesn't look like much (and I did use someone else's "template" to get me started), but I did spend a considerable amount of time on it and would hate to join the artists-who-don't-get-credit-they-deserve club (and you would either join or stay in the people-who-don't-credit-other-people's-work-for-some-reason club... nobody likes that club).
Okay, I've got a lot of these pictures that I'm about to drop on you guys, so I'm going to make the descriptions quick and save the copyright stuff for a good stopping point.
So, this (picture above) is what I imagine the Pevensies' mom putting them in before shipping them off to Professor Kirke's house... all matching so it's harder for them to lose each other on the train; Navy to be patriotic and to subconsciously calm them down; and having it be sort of a bright navy blue acting as their "best clothes" so they'd look nice for the Professor.
So, this (picture above) is what I imagine the Pevensies' mom putting them in before shipping them off to Professor Kirke's house... all matching so it's harder for them to lose each other on the train; Navy to be patriotic and to subconsciously calm them down; and having it be sort of a bright navy blue acting as their "best clothes" so they'd look nice for the Professor.
So, in the BBC version of LWW, it looks like they have at least a day in between Narnia-visits, so I essentially just made another set of outfits for them. I think I based the color of Susan's cardigan on the red dress she wore in the animated film, but I forget if the colors for the others were based on anything...
(UPDATE 03-14-17): So, I just noticed that the book actually says, "For the next few days [Lucy] was very miserable." So... I got the fact that I probably needed an extra outfit for all of them right, I just based it off of the BBC version rather than the book... I probably should have reread the book to double check first... oops... I may need to make another set of outfits (or two since it does say "few days" which means 3 or more days...)... I'm cool with that since it's not that hard and I can see what other colors/shades work with the Pevensies...
(UPDATE 03-14-17): So, I just noticed that the book actually says, "For the next few days [Lucy] was very miserable." So... I got the fact that I probably needed an extra outfit for all of them right, I just based it off of the BBC version rather than the book... I probably should have reread the book to double check first... oops... I may need to make another set of outfits (or two since it does say "few days" which means 3 or more days...)... I'm cool with that since it's not that hard and I can see what other colors/shades work with the Pevensies...
This is from the day Lucy and Edmund went into the Wardrobe. The colors for Lucy and Edmund's clothes were based on their outfits in The World of Narnia Collection. I think the color of Peter's sweater is the same from the animated film, but I'm not 100% sure on that. I don't think Susan's color scheme came from anywhere.
(UPDATE 03-14-17): So, after I discovered my previous error (which was that my reasoning for an extra outfit was from the wrong source and that I needed to make at least two more outfits to satisfy the "For the next few days..." line in the book), I made sure to check to see if I needed anymore outfits... and it turns out that I do since Peter and Susan wait until the next day to tell the Professor about their concerns for Lucy after Lucy's second (and Edmund's first) trip into Narnia and there's clearly some time between that conversation and the final trip into the Wardrobe. So... now I need to add at least three more outfits... also, it just occurred to me that I may need to make some PJs for them... hmm...
This is when they all went into the Wardrobe. The outfits (color and everything) were based off of the Pauline Baynes illustrations.
I know that in the book illustrations and in every other visual adaptation (that I've seen) the Pevensies don't have any "Aslan's Camp clothes" (or armor for that matter), and I have tried to keep the 2005 movie out of this so far, but I felt like they did need some other clothes aside from their English clothes. I get that in some regards, it's a bit unrealistic for the camp to somehow have clothes that fit all of them, but I always found it weird that they didn't and they just fought (and slept) in their regular clothes... after wearing them for at least 2 whole days. Plus, in the movie (great, now I'm about to gush all over this movie), having new clothes did spur on a nice conversation between Lucy and Susan before Maugrim attacked them. And, it makes sense having clothes for them to train in to prepare for a battle in which they probably have no idea how to fight.
Again, I know that in every other visual adaptation (that I've seen) the Pevensies don't have any armor, and (again) I have tried to keep the 2005 movie out of this, but I couldn't help myself. The boys needed armor! It doesn't make sense for Aslan and the army to prepare for these boys to lead them into battle without at least trying to make armor for them. It's dangerous and stupid to send an unarmored 13 year old and an unarmored 10 year old into a war against creatures of the forces of evil.
I guess I could've made armor that wasn't so similar to the movie's version, but I like the red too much. At least I didn't attempt to recreate the lion symbol. That wouldn't've been pretty.
I guess I could've made armor that wasn't so similar to the movie's version, but I like the red too much. At least I didn't attempt to recreate the lion symbol. That wouldn't've been pretty.
We've finally come to the coronation outfits! (Don't worry, I've still got quite a few more pictures before my "stopping point")
I decided to have the colors match what they're... well, I don't what to call it... Okay, so you know how in the coronation ceremony (in the 2005 movie), Aslan says, "To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle. And to the clear northern skies, King Peter the Magnificent." ? Well, I basically matched their cape colors to their "to the [insert location]" statements (and just had the color lightened for their dresses/tunics or whatever they're called). Lucy's is a sea/ocean blue ("To the glistening eastern sea..."), Edmund's is a forest green ("To the great western woods..."), Susan's is a sun-gold color ("To the radiant southern sun..."), and Peter's is a deep sky blue ("And to the clear northern skies").
I decided to have the colors match what they're... well, I don't what to call it... Okay, so you know how in the coronation ceremony (in the 2005 movie), Aslan says, "To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle. And to the clear northern skies, King Peter the Magnificent." ? Well, I basically matched their cape colors to their "to the [insert location]" statements (and just had the color lightened for their dresses/tunics or whatever they're called). Lucy's is a sea/ocean blue ("To the glistening eastern sea..."), Edmund's is a forest green ("To the great western woods..."), Susan's is a sun-gold color ("To the radiant southern sun..."), and Peter's is a deep sky blue ("And to the clear northern skies").
So, I'm skipping the end of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (with the Ps all in their 20s) for now and going to Prince Caspian when the Ps are waiting at the Train Station. I tried to copy the book's illustrations as much as I could (for authenticity, of course), but as a beginner in Adobe Illustrator, I found it to be difficult and time-consuming. So, since Prince Caspian has the Ps being a year older (in Earth time), I basically just lengthened their hair (though it's kind of hard to tell on Edmund since his hair color's so light... I guess I could've made it longer, but I didn't want him to start having a mullet or anything).
*Breathes deeply* Whew, I'm getting tired... I have more pictures, but I did start skipping around more once I got to this point. Maybe this is a good stopping point for now. I'll put up more when I have more pictures that flow together, rather than jumping around from book to book.
So, since I don't want to get in copyright trouble (and it's just respectful to give credit where credit is due):
The characters do not belong to me. They belong to C.S. Lewis (I think his estate officially owns the rights)
The outfit references are from Pauline Baynes, Deborah Maze, the animated film (not sure who would own that, but it was just a color reference), and from the 2005 movie (I think Disney and Walden Media would own those rights)
The "character template" was made by Nataliya Dolotko (here's the link: http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-character-kit-in-adobe-illustrator--cms-25785).
So, I finished these pictures somewhere between February 23rd, 2017 and March 2nd, 2017 (I didn't keep track, but today is March 2nd). If you use these pictures, then I will kindly urge you to credit me. I know they may not look like much (and I did use someone else's "template" as a starting point), but I did spend a considerable amount of time on these (and the others I haven't posted yet) and would hate to join the artists-who-don't-get-credit-they-deserve club, especially since (as far as I know) I'm not making money off of these (and you would either join or stay in the people-who-don't-credit-other-people's-work-for-some-reason club... nobody likes that club).
Have a nice day!
-Allison Spears
So, since I don't want to get in copyright trouble (and it's just respectful to give credit where credit is due):
The characters do not belong to me. They belong to C.S. Lewis (I think his estate officially owns the rights)
The outfit references are from Pauline Baynes, Deborah Maze, the animated film (not sure who would own that, but it was just a color reference), and from the 2005 movie (I think Disney and Walden Media would own those rights)
The "character template" was made by Nataliya Dolotko (here's the link: http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-character-kit-in-adobe-illustrator--cms-25785).
So, I finished these pictures somewhere between February 23rd, 2017 and March 2nd, 2017 (I didn't keep track, but today is March 2nd). If you use these pictures, then I will kindly urge you to credit me. I know they may not look like much (and I did use someone else's "template" as a starting point), but I did spend a considerable amount of time on these (and the others I haven't posted yet) and would hate to join the artists-who-don't-get-credit-they-deserve club, especially since (as far as I know) I'm not making money off of these (and you would either join or stay in the people-who-don't-credit-other-people's-work-for-some-reason club... nobody likes that club).
Have a nice day!
-Allison Spears
(Posted March 14th, 2017... Ooh, it's Pi Day) So, I was experimenting with eyes over my Spring Break and I decided to essentially redo my fan-art with these new eyes. So, I am reposting what's on here in chronological order (still minus the adult Pevensies... sorry, I'll get to it eventually). Hopefully, y'all like them (and I will eventually get around to finish posting all that I have made once I fill in chronological gaps).
(UPDATE a few hours later): So, if you hadn't seen the updates in the previous pictures, I have made a few errors in my outfit-count. I need at least three more outfits (plus some possible sleepwear) due to certain lines in the book that indicate more time passing than I had thought (Oops). So, once I make those, these pictures won't be in chronological order anymore (since I don't want to just insert new pictures into a group of "old" pictures)... I guess it doesn't matter too much as long as I post the LWW pictures before any more PC, VDT, SC, HHB, and LB pictures (haven't started on anything MN related yet) and as long as none of you are really OCD and want everything in exact chronological order...
Well, that's all I have for now. I'll try and post more later.
So, since I don't want to get in copyright trouble (and it's just respectful to give credit where credit is due):
The characters do not belong to me. They belong to C.S. Lewis (I think his estate officially owns the rights)
The outfit references are from Pauline Baynes, Deborah Maze, the animated film (not sure who would own that, but it was just a color reference), and from the 2005 movie (I think Disney and Walden Media would own those rights)
The "character template" was made by Nataliya Dolotko (here's the link: http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-character-kit-in-adobe-illustrator--cms-25785).
So, I finished these pictures somewhere between March 10th, 2017 and March 14th, 2017 (I didn't keep track, but today is March 14th). If you use these pictures, then I will kindly urge you to credit me. I know they may not look like much (and I did use someone else's "template" as a starting point), but I did spend a considerable amount of time on these (and the others I haven't posted yet) and would hate to join the artists-who-don't-get-credit-they-deserve club, especially since (as far as I know) I'm not making money off of these (and you would either join or stay in the people-who-don't-credit-other-people's-work-for-some-reason club... nobody likes that club).
Have a nice day!
-Allison Spears
So, since I don't want to get in copyright trouble (and it's just respectful to give credit where credit is due):
The characters do not belong to me. They belong to C.S. Lewis (I think his estate officially owns the rights)
The outfit references are from Pauline Baynes, Deborah Maze, the animated film (not sure who would own that, but it was just a color reference), and from the 2005 movie (I think Disney and Walden Media would own those rights)
The "character template" was made by Nataliya Dolotko (here's the link: http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-character-kit-in-adobe-illustrator--cms-25785).
So, I finished these pictures somewhere between March 10th, 2017 and March 14th, 2017 (I didn't keep track, but today is March 14th). If you use these pictures, then I will kindly urge you to credit me. I know they may not look like much (and I did use someone else's "template" as a starting point), but I did spend a considerable amount of time on these (and the others I haven't posted yet) and would hate to join the artists-who-don't-get-credit-they-deserve club, especially since (as far as I know) I'm not making money off of these (and you would either join or stay in the people-who-don't-credit-other-people's-work-for-some-reason club... nobody likes that club).
Have a nice day!
-Allison Spears
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