The Goose & The Golden Egg

Tactile design board with the prompt “Fable”, based on the fable “The Goose & The Golden Egg” by Aesop.

For my concept development, I brainstormed simultaneously as I started to create thumbnails on my sketchbook and then went more in-depth with my concept development and setting my boundaries about what I wanted to work on for this project.

At the moment I made this, I had recently studied Francisco De Goya and was influenced by his dark paintings, at first I started thumbnailing thinking that I was going to base my design on “La Gallina Degollada” by Horacio Quiroga, but I found myself making very grotesque sketches and decided it was not the look I wanted to go with. I wanted a more obscure but still elegant look without being grotesque, I then created my mood board, a list of Do’s and Don’ts as well as for deciding to change my concept and use another of the fables I was interested in revisiting one of my favorite from childhood and worked with The Goose & The Golden Egg“ to then create a storyboard and my final design board.

I had a lot of fun using mediums I haven’t used in a while such as charcoal, I photographed all of my assets and then manipulated them to create my final design frames as well as produce the piece.