Final Illustrations

From my experimentations and developments I have created these four illustrations in response to the African Folk Tale: 

'The Story of a Hunter and his Antelope Wife.'

Explanation of the Final Outcomes:

1^st image: layered Antelope Skin on a green background. Green represents vegetation and as the first scene takes place in the forest where the antelopes take off they’re skin, this represents the environment.

2^nd image: the characters of the Antelope Woman and the hunter. I used a pale blue background and this means peace and harmony, portraying the meeting of these two characters leads to confiding in each other and proposed marriage. Male and females wear different dominant colour in Kente Cloth, therefore the colours in each character are based from this and also the line in the patterns are white as this means balance. This conveys the meeting of the characters.

3^rd image – the Skin hanging from the roof and the pot. The background for this image is a red/orange colour because red means betrayal and this scene portrays how the hunter broke his promise and told the antelope woman’s secret to his first wife.

4^th image – the woman turns back into an antelope and changes her three children too. Unlike the other images, I have outlined the antelopes in black. Black represents maturity and this represents how the young children have grown up and now turned into young male antelopes. I have used the same pattern to fill the female antelope as in the second image of the woman to show they are the same character. I used bold greens and blue colours for the other antelopes, as they are the colours that males wear. The background is a brown meaning the earth – showing how the antelopes will now leave and return to the land where they came from.