Typical me, leave it late in the day to go back to the drawing board more-or-less with this design. Still keeping the main Gatekeeper character as the main focus, but i needed to make a little environment for him to sit in, to make it more in keeping with the look of the other two prints. So i spent some time busting out some new scamps trying to come up with some new compositions.I added various elements related to story of the Gatekeeper, including the giant gate & wall that surround the town that he resides in, and a set of knives that he spends all his spare time sharpening. Another last minute addition was the missing jigsaw piece in the sky which refers to a sentence of the book that i pulled out way back in the early days which goes "a puzzle piece of sky cuts through the tree tops...".
After settling on the basic layout, it all got taken into illustrator again, and tinkered to death.
Had some more fun with the old halftones once again, making bit of shading to the wall
stones, and using a lined halftone to make the grain in the wooden door. Made sure to add trapping to the orange layer as it was a success with the previous print.
It took of bit of work to get it to the point where i was happy with how it was looking,but i think i now fits in better with the other two design and works well as a set. Not feeling too aprehensious about going to print now, after working through some major technical issues feel i can turn this one around in reasonable time - unless there IS something else that could jump up and throw me off course in the print room?!
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