Beautiful Dreamers; the backdrop

This is the backdrop I drew out on black card with coloured pencils. Recently I've been playing around a lot with bright colours and coloured paper and the work is paying off. For instance I now have a better understanding of colour palettes! Because of the weird and small dimensions of the illustration I had to produce I could not put the whole piece in (sad face).

Beautiful Dreamers (first draft)

A while back I was listening to a Radio4 (BBC) show called Beautiful Dreamers. I think it was the title that immediately caught my attention and also in the blurb it said that it was about music. Had a listen and it was AMAZING! I produced a small 58x42mm illustration for it (uni course work). It was about Artur Mistek's Musica Zoologika - the world's first animal orchestra, set against a backdrop of the CCCP. Definitely worth a listen. There was a bit where they explain this butterfly gong - a massive flock of butterflies are flown into a gong and with every collision produces a soft sound. The unconscious/dead bodies then fall onto another gong. Cruel - possibly, but the sound this little scene omitted must have been awesome!