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My research work for this project. Reflecting on the importance of it and how it has helped.

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During my research I took inspiration from pictures on Pinterest of schools, kids fashion and styles from the 1970's, since Matilda was sent in the 70's-80's. Although the musical we are basing this on is in a modern setting, I felt it gave it more of a unique look, with bold colours and patterns, pretty hairstyles and playful fashion.

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Ideas for the word art. Thinking of things associated with our brief and how to use them. I had a few ideas of a font that matched some words, how to lay out the words in a setting, and what to put them on as further context.

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My 3D diarama for the scene 'Revolting Children's. This is a depiction of the outside of the school covered in rubbish, scattered books and signs of rebellion. This was mostly made of paper and small bits of wood (for the pole), foam (for the inside of the books), and pipe cleaners (to hold the paper airplanes). The stande of Matilda is there for a size reference. The shirt flag being my favorite part as it feels silly and homemade.

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This was meant to look like a collage of the punk newspaper text and a child's notebook. The Rebellious snippets carrying a more factor-made look, like the school is just pushing out uniform and dull students, which contrasts the colourful crayons and drawings on the rest of the page, showing their child spirit.

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I had started a digital drawing of Matilda, unfortunately I was too busy at the time to finish it and could not access my references for her uniform.

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Relating to the previous piece, this one is meant to look like a child's maths book. Covered in doodles rather than the actual work to show how their minds differ to the monotonous and mundane world they are put in.

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Some more art of Matilda. I was interested in making her more lively by giving her bow some body language relating to how she feels. Personally, I really like her angry eye in the top right: I feel it conveys her emotion in a nice mix of style and expression.

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While being more focused on the lighting and angle rather than the design. The school was mean to feel daunting and grim, the stark bright light and pitch black shading offering a ghostly look to it.

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A playground done with charcoal. The dull look and lack of colours could portray how the children feel under Trunchbull's rules.

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This was extremely fun to make. It is a small classroom photo done with charcoal. I was instructed to try different materials and feel this creates a nice, gloomy environment, the lack of details shows how boring the classroom can be.

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For this piece I used pieces from a garden magazine to create a collage. I chose the colourful flowers as I feel they suit Matilda and her rebellious flower patch.

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A alternative version of the previous drawing of Matilda under the tree. This was done in watercolour, mainly focusing on the lighting without lineart.

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Working with some different mediums. The two left drawings are scenes using pen and highlighters, the bottom left is to create a scene of action, heavy books looking all around her in an overwhelming environment. The top right is a side profile of Principal Trunchbull, the idea was to have her leading with her nose, tiny eyes and saggy cheeks dragging behind, done with pen and watercolour. Lastly, the bottom right is pencil sketch of Matilda sat beneath a tree, seeing her future self in the clouds.

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Principal Trunchbull. Her design is inspired by caricatures of elderly women. I wanted her to be top heavy with broad shoulders, thin legs and gowly cheeks. The reddened face further exaggerates her angry expressions.

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The Matilda brief. We have been instructed to create scenes, art and ideas around the songs 'Revolting Children' and 'When I grow up'.

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Concept doodle of Matilda standing on some books to reach the chalkboard.

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Same as previous picture but with more of the body built up.

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A thumbnail focused on the contrasting colours. Her face in detail with different angles. Two more thumbnails, this time being of the songs we've been provided with.

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Matilda's design. I took inspiration from 1970's styles due to the book being set in the 70's to 80's. This can be seen in the bowl cut I have her in her first design, which slowly turned into a bob as he design progressed. At first, she was going to have detailed eyes but I kept the round simple eyes from her doodle stage. On the second page I gave her some colours, having her red bow, bag and flower patch as a contrast to the blue and grey uniform, symbolizing her place as the unique character. The flower patch on her shoulder is a sign of rebellion, which also ties into the peace movement in the 1970's.

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Mono printing using photos based around childhood and school. The top left photo could be a depiction of a child and her future self. We were given pictures to trace over and imprint a copy.