Tag: Fanart

So this batch is for the episode Puppet Show and Nightmares.

Puppet Show everything I thought of was kinda on the nose and very goosebumps night of the living dummy. I thought maybe a different type of puppet wielding a knife could work. Then the title can go into the puppet holder thing. Then I thought maybe positioning the dummy like it’s dead could work. I have the top of his head cut off and I think I’m gonna put a carved in hole in his chest to represent the demon that needs a heart and a brain.

Nightmares was also kinda a hard concept to think of an idea for. That is a sorta hard concept to nail down visually. So I only really came up with one good idea. I have the villain of the episode smashing glass with a baseball bat. I was gonna put on each shard something to represent different things that the characters were having as nightmares.

So next two episodes are Angel and I, Robot … You Jane.

The first design of angel I did a grave moment that was an angel. I like the over all layout but it was too on the nose. The second one I did Angel’s silhouette in Buffy’s bedroom. I used the branches of the tree outside to make it look like the silhouette had wings. Then the branches being leafless adds an implied deadness to it. I’ll probably clean up that one if I go further. Angel is the one I finished up out of these.

Then for I Robot, You Jane, I wanted to be computery in a 90s way. The first I thought an error message on a computer screen would work. I figure the error message can say “Error: There’s a demon in the internet” and I’d have the title in 1s and 0s all matrix style. The other option is less spoilery but equal 90s tech. I thought it would be fun to have that old style printer paper with the circles on the edge. And then I used the mouses wire to make a noose to give the implication of danger and death in a more subtle way.

So these next two are for Never Kill a Boy on the First Date and the Pack.

Never Kill a Boy on the First Date is a long title so I tried to make sure there was room for it. I thought something cutest for the silhouetted boy and girl poses would be good. Then the vampire grabbing at his feet because kinda the running thing in the episode is that he’s in danger more so than Buffy or the Scoobies. Hoping from grave to grave is because there is to reference the prophecy in the episode about several people dying. The other version I thought the ribbon with the title had an old fashion school dance feel so I tried to do that with the characters too. Again there is the monsters grabbing at him because he’s the one in danger. And again I did the graves. I also added the broken bus to the background.

For The Pack, I thought about Mondo’s prints for The Jungle Book. I liked how it was all in the shape of the tiger. So I did that with the hyena here. I mostly played with the pose of the hyena because of how much I like that idea. Then the spots lead down to silhouettes of a group of kids laughing at another. The one on the left I think works better and is more dynamic.

Episode 3 is called The Witch. The plot is a witch is cursing cheerleaders. The first design I started with two mundane objects from the plot and then the witches caldron. It is a little mundane looking. The second version of this design I designed on taking a cheerleading trophy from the end and put the various curse effects on the trophy. So it’s blindfolded, has no mouth and one hand is on fire. I kept one hand in tack to you can see it’s for cheerleading. Then it submerged in the caldron adds some more dread to the picture. Also smoke from the spell makes for a nice way to do the letters.

Episode 4 teacher’s pet is a little harder. The title doesn’t really help with the visuals. Miss. French being a preying mantis is kinda supposed to be a reveal so I didn’t want to do anything two obvious. So I first tried sexy silhouette where the teacher’s pointer wand is cutting off student’s heads might work at implying that future without giving it away. Then I was stuck on a second idea. Since she is a bug monster I thought maybe having her pinning boy students like butterflies might be good since she is also teaching bio. If I finish one it will probably be the first one.

I liked Witch a lot so that’s one of the finished title cards.

So I’ve been doing cover design exercises by trying to design title cards for Buffy Episodes.

So the first is Welcome to the Hellmouth. The first design is the school on top of a well the Hellmouth. I thought making the school tiny over that toothy deep hole. It doesn’t look quite a good as it did in my head. So I might tighten it up a little.

Then second design for it I wanted the entrance of the school to be threatening with fire inside the doors. Since the whole point of Buffy is high school as hell metaphor. This design was easier to nail down.

The Harvest I could only come up with one solid idea. You can’t see them cause I kept erasing them, but I kept trying cornucopia with body parts in it or full of blood. They didn’t really work. This last one was using cornucopias as fangs. It’s still not really working.

The second design works better. The master is so pale and has those shape fingernails. So using his hand and finger as a scythe which tiny figures about to be cut down. That will probably be the one of the two I clean up. It’s why I eventually did a finished version.