2D Assignment 4: Composition and Layout

For this week we looked at various compositions and had to create an illustration of our choice using one of the following composition types. 

I decided on the circular composition...originally I had planned for the radial view, but as I continued, my progress became more of the circular composition. 

Reference:

Final illustration:

Overall I spent about 1 hour gathering references and sketching and about 2 hours painting the final image.

Edit: I decided that I  needed more practice, so I decided to do another one.  I gathered an image from the movie, My Neighbor Totoro, for my reference.

Rough sketch:

Final illustration:

I spent about 6 hours on this assignment, 2 hours per drawing.