Week 4: Mood Board

Here I have a selection of underwater/swamp trolls representations throughout media, as you can see they are normally suggested to be of the male origin and have elements of there environment growing on them. I aim to break the gender assignment with my characters as I feel they could just as easily be represented as female just as much as male. Whereas with the environment growing on the trolls I feel is a really effective element to create context for the creature or there origin, this is something I would like to implement into my work. I feel it is a really good way to represent the character, for example I could have the character covered/surrounded by happy looking fish giving the troll as very positive atmosphere to his appearance or I could the troll could be covered in moss suggesting he came from a swap.