A great steal

Today I began working on an idea for a composition of one scene within the book. The text reads where the omnipotent determined fate, my initial idea is shown above. The main character is essentially becoming a slave as he is sentenced by the omnipotent, ships should be in the scene to lead nicely into the following page. This image was further by my model making of the chair that is a city, almost like Petra.
To take this idea further and experiment with it I decided to use many influences that I had recently seen. The sculptures of Paolozzi that I seen yesterday, a postcard of a Peter Howson painting that I bought, an image by Gustave Dore I found when studying tone in compositions and a sketch by Alan Lee that was a concept for Lord of the Rings. Each inspired one another so I have took each of these and compiled these into a single image.

Alan Lee sketch

Paolozzi sculpture

my model of seat of power/city

Peter Howson

Gustave Dore

These images where put together in a composition I felt could work. I then tried creating a tonal image to show light, mid tones and shadows. I had been reading up on this and many artist believe it works best to have all similar tone together in big shapes as this helps in creating form even if this is not exactly what something may look like in real life. This is this first time I have tried this type of exercise so I can only improve through time and practice. After this I then applied the rule of thirds and added in where the gutter of the book would also lie within the image. this helped me to adjust the image and determine where the omnipotent and main character should be placed. My next main consideration is whether to adjust where the light source is which will affect all tonal work or to work with my initial idea. This composition now feels as though it is worth developing further, each of the described steps is shown below.