This illustration was for the Bard in the Barracks production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to be used in their promotional material. It was painted digitally.
The first step in the production was to work out some thumbnail compositions to figure out how it would look and what to represent.
Here are a few:
I settled on a composition with Titania and Bottom in the foreground and Oberon and Puck in the background having a good laugh.
Next I started making some sketches to figure out what the characters would look like.
On these pages I was working on Puck mostly although Bottom is also there:
Here’s my conception of Oberon:
Titania and Bottom:
Finally I decided to include Titania’s fairy helpers and not to put Puck and Oberon in.
This production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is to be performed outside in a park. I went with Len Falkenstein, the show’s director to visit the site and took a few pictures. Here’s the one I used:
Len also allowed me to come to a rehearsal and take some pictures of the actors.
In the next post I’ll talk about how I put these elements together.