April INN wip

Jacy13 · 12 Apr 2021, 16:17

I love number 4!

Asyas_illos · 12 Apr 2021, 16:45

I really like the underground idea makes me think speak easy

Mandy Forte · 13 Apr 2021, 02:20

Thank you everyone! I think I am going to work through a few more roughs on them. However I did realize that I made all but the underground one have many buildings. Does an Inn only have one building or do you think it can have many? Most of my research has shown one building but I also thought of in the Disney Cars movie has the Cozy Cone. But maybe that is a hotel. I don’t know if it matters, I am just thinking things out. What do you all think?

Himangi · 13 Apr 2021, 06:34

Hi, number one is my favorite, the others are also very interesting. I can’t wait to see how you will paint it.

lizardillo · 13 Apr 2021, 13:09

@Mandy-Forte I would say generally one building for an inn. We have lots of old inns and pubs in England and a lot are old coaching inns where travellers would have stopped for the night so also would have had stables for the horses. If you wanted to have more than one building perhaps you could have one for eating/drinking and one for accommodation?

braden H · 13 Apr 2021, 13:35

I like the rabbit and the frog ideas as they're easiest to immediately connect to the animals running them (and seeing a rabbit in a maitre D un outfit would be the best thing ever).

Also, the potential inn/tavern names are just friggin' awesome.

Frogs:
The Hop and Holster
The Leg-mad Sous chef
The Croak and Wart
Tadpole's Rest

Rabbits:
The Hop and Holster (they both hop!)
The Flayrah (gotta have some watership down reference in there)
Carrot and Clover
The Eagle's Folly
The Owl's Head (Like, they killed an owl and mounted it's head over the fireplace)
The Warm Warren

There's so many optioooooooons!

Mandy Forte · 14 Apr 2021, 21:08

Update: so I decided to go with the teapot idea but make it into a single structure (well sort of). What are your thoughts?

Pardon the very messy sketches, I did them while sitting in the car waiting for my kids to be done with practice.

Mandy Forte · 22 Apr 2021, 23:41

So this is where I am at so far. I have been working on perspective and it is kicking my butt. Does anyone see anything that looks odd before I move on to finalize it? Thank you for you help.

Larue · 23 Apr 2021, 07:03

@Mandy-Forte Hi Mandy, It seems to me that the tea pot handle is too small and fragile proportionally to the size of the pot. If you have an actual teapot that you can look at recreating the same point of view you've created here, that would be a big help. Your front windows would also curve and show perspective like your awning as they are on a curved surface also. I love the concept, pretty challenging idea. Looking forward to the final!

Mandy Forte · 23 Apr 2021, 13:45

@Larue thank you. I have been starring at it so much I knew there was something, I just couldn’t figure it out.

lizardillo · 23 Apr 2021, 22:43

Hi @Mandy-Forte. I love the teapot idea. I agree with Larue about the windows. The round ones at the top of the main pot might be pointing outward slightly following the curve of the pot if they are the same design as the one above the handle and are not flush the the surface. You may see a bit of the roof bit of them. Also the door at the bottom would be curved like the window on the left of it.

I sometimes draw lines on round objects (like longitude and latitude lines a globe to help me follow curved surfaces. I like the hearts in the shutters

Mandy Forte · 25 Apr 2021, 15:50

The final.

Larue · 26 Apr 2021, 22:24

@Mandy-Forte Came out super cute!

lizardillo · 27 Apr 2021, 13:48

@Mandy-Forte this is lovely. One thing I would just say is the round windows have a bit of wood on the top that gives the impression they are protruding, but the frames do not. I think they may need a line to give a small 3D impression if they are not flush to the side like the other windows. I have done a really quick line to show the kind of thing I mean, I hope you don’t mind.