Environment Concepts

I'm staying focused on the cave.

I must say I've found drawing environments rather tricky, perspective is not something I've ever had a natural grasp of.

 

For the tree leading into the cave, I was inspired by the tree in Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' (1999). A 'three-prongued' theme runs through the Tinderbox story (3 dogs, 3 rooms, etc.) and I want to emphasise this in my work. To that end I plan to include references to the number three in the design of both the environment and characters. I plan to use the three-prongued, triangular flag from the civil war in the soldier's outfit (see below in blog) and I have given the tree three branches and roots spreading out equilaterally.