War Horse developments

I tried out various different things for my War Horse images in order to make them less representational and regurgitative of the text. I thought about using the sheep to achieve this with a new composition to the ploughing one which was pretty boring in retrospect.

I also had another look at Bill Bragg and Victo Ngai and realised that i really needed texture to make the images more interesting, so I tried to apply them quite haphazardly in the right image. Neither of these images were working though, so I scrapped them as well and decided to go for a completely different approach inspired by my recent COP work:

 The idea is that it takes after Modernism - a movement that tried to convey the fragmentation of the world after the Great War. I will convey the world through the simple shapes of Modernism and show how the War fragmented the world. This narrative is introduced in the above image through the crack forming at the back, foreshadowing the shattered aesthetic I plan to continue with throughout as the War becomes more relevant to the story.