changing roles

I talked to my group and I told them that I think that too many of us was spending time on character so I wanted to try something else like the gathering aspect of the game.

I like painting plants and flowers anyway and felt like I would find this part of the game interesting therefore would get more out of it.
I researched what kind of plants are on Haida Gwaii which i mostly a variety of berries and mushrooms but they also ate seaweed,  crabs, fish and small mammals.
I would like to think that the Haida tribe got given a journal by the British which has all the information about everything the player can gather.
here I painted strawberries, mushrooms, a crab, salmon-berries
i tried to show the beauty of all the object just like how the Haida tribe saw nature.

salmon-berries

http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/edu/ViewLoitLo.do;jsessionid=16B695CCF4033AFFE5841657BB7759E5?method=preview&lang=EN&id=9794
http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_nwc3.html
http://namethatplant.wordpress.com/category/west-coast-native-plants/
http://www.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/eflora/FungiofHaidaGwaii.html

Wolf tribe

The native Indians respected the wolves greatly as they had many similar traits. Both live and hunt in packs with a ranking system and both choose a mate for life. They feel that they are so connected to the wolves that they called them there brothers.

I want to make the wolf tribe in between wolf and man
so i will do research on wolfs and human poses to merge them to see what happens, i will also research werewolf in different media.

http://www.spiritsofthewestcoast.com/symbol/the_wolf/2/
http://wildwisconsinwolves.omeka.net/natives
http://animals.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/mammals/wolf/

Wolf tribe leader

Even though I like the pose and the upper half of the character but I'm not happy with the bottom half of the character though if i get chance I would love to come back to this and re-do this.

Wolf tribe ideas

Haida research: native language

http://www.native-languages.org/haida_culture.html

I also looked at the Haida language especially animal words and colours so I would be able to integrated the native language into the games.

Going back to research

I decided to go back and research more about the Haida tribe so even though the game has fantasy element i would feel like our game had been rooted from cultural and historical ideas

i continued to be inspired by the masks not just because of the god references but the artwork.

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/haida/havwa01e.shtml
- this link explained to me the reputation of the Haida tribe as bloody warrior who battled in canoes giving the idea of sea battles
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/haida/hapmc01e.shtml - as well as emphasising more on the gods and animals they worshiped.

I even had my own idea for the narrative being about a Haida tribe's man going on a quest and in the process finding that the British are coming to destroy them and their culture. In the process of this the main character either becomes a spirit or gets guided by the spirits to return to his tribe, build up the tribe and the army ready to fight the final battle.
I even went as far as looking up if the Haida tribe believed in the dead to make my story believable.
http://www.native-languages.org/rulers-dead.htm

with beliefs shows that the dead would watch over them my story will tie in well if the group like my idea

My wolves and werewolves

wolves and werewolves

I firstly went and looked at werewolves from different TV shows and movies to get ideas about  how to form the body and what the tribes appearance would be.

i looked at a variety of shows and movies including: 

• Being human (US and UK)
•  An american werewolf in london 
• wolfblood
• teen wolf
• hemlock grove
  
  
  
  
  

as well as looking at wolf photos.

Native American Indians

I wanted to get an idea of how the characters would look so I browsed hairstyles of the native Americans to get an idea of their identity.
link-https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=native+american+hairstyles&rlz=1C1NIKB_enGB507GB507&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=-uBfUprFBeqw7Abhy4GoBg&ved=0CDAQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=705&dpr=1

but these are some of the images i picked out

so I tried to recreate them in my own artwork

Even though I didn't finish all the heads i liked experimenting with hairstyles to add personality to the character straight away.  

ideas from the Sainsburys art centre

after looking around the Sainsbury's art center today and when looking round I took inspiration from  different objects such as the galleon, staffs from different countries such as Africa.
I like the idea of the main character would travel to different countries and collect artifacts.