Castles in Trees

So after a long time of thinking on how to make my idea more fairytale related I figured the use of castles will close the gap so I present to you, castles in trees! Funnily enough it took me a long time to come up with this idea because I was trying to find other ways around it like using scale to my advantage to make things look less realistic in reference to Alice in Wonderland but nothing was really clinging to me. So, I sat down and looked through my mood boards again and started re sculpting my village into a castle village community. I took a lot of inspiration from castle houses and tree houses and eventually drew up this in a combination of Paint tool SAI and Photoshop.

As you can see I also had a go at colour theory which is something I really want to get the hang of for my concept art in the years to come. I'd like to think I have a good eye for colour and knowledge of colour combinations because of my interest of character design from a young age but there's still a lot of things I don't fully understand, colour theory being one of them.

This colour scheme I have going here is something I might actually bring to my models when I come to textures them but I'll have to experiment with that. I do think that the colour scheme is fitting for my fairytale theme though.

For this image I decided to use silhouettes which is a nice change to doing sketchy outlines and details. It's very simple yet effective and silhouettes are very important through concept art anyway. The silhouettes also allowed me to focus on the colour theory side of things a little more as well but next time I'd like to try with a more details piece.