Ani09206 Environments Project: Statue Design Stage.

So far I have done a couple of designs. Ideally I would like to have 6 designs but have variations of each, in order to show development.

Evaluation of myself.
I don't think I have planned nor spent my time well this week in order to have enough designs to show development and ready to be chosen for modelling for the following week. On the other hand this could be to do with the fact that we as a group haven't thought through the design stage properly. However the group did put in a another week for modelling as a back up which I could use for the design stage if worse comes to worse.

I think something that I have improved upon is being less precious over my work. I found that I became less precious over my work when I switched from pencil and paper to working in Photoshop.

Here are my designs so far.

I'm really happy with the top two because the proportions are accurate, I had an attempt at lighting, and it has that finished look to it. I particularly like the dotted detail on the shield which helps complete the drawing. For the second one I like the tones of yellow and the detail on the face helps humanize the statue and I didn't expect it to be so effective.
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I have done a little more research on the Greek God Apollo, originally to find reference pictures. Instead I found some more information, which was sourced from Homer. I was wanting to find some different poses as apposed to just him holding his arm out in front of him (see picture above).

His attributes are the omphalos, lyre, bow and arrows, laurel, hawk, raven or crow, swan, fawn, roe, snake, mouse, grasshopper, and griffin. The attribute that caught my eye in particular was the bow and arrow.
source: Apollo - Who Is the Greek God Apollo. Available at: http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/p/Apollo.htm [Accessed January 17, 2010].
I also wanted to collect some more reference pictures. So here they are: