Foresty Scenes

I didn't know how to translate the candle light (or sunrise/sunset) into a drawing or painting...

This is a personal interpretation of an experience, what makes it relatable? I want to transport the reader into the woods in search of the tower. 

What is the theme or familiar sensation that I am attempting to evoke in the reader?

How would I convey the feeling of darkness and loneliness in the woods?

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/188236459403313577/

I've really enjoyed building models in Visual Language and would love to continue this process in this project, perhaps making dioramas of the scene and photographing them as pages with real depth.

I'd want to make these images full bleed and to span the entirety of the concertina, so would I need to sew sections together if I'm photographing them? Can I take a panorama? 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/188236459403313562/

As well as considering perspective and pacing, the setting has other variables to decide upon too. I want to document how the scene changes in different seasons and in different light. The two images above have very different atmospheres simply by changing the colour palette.

I'm still wanting to convey the isolation of this remote and bleak location, I need to play with colours to see which tones achieve this.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/188236459403313354/

The blue feels cold 

how did the artist make this?

Love the silhouettes, fixes the problem of making the story too cartoon-like or character focused. People are relevant but shouldn't be in the foreground of the narrative. Simply woven into the scene.

Animals behind trees, adds depth by building layers on top of one another. 

I like how this one is dark, but not spooky. Love the little yellow bulbs of light, is that digital? How can it be achieved digitally?

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/188236459403313346/

Shadows are so clever. Immediately evokes childish terror in me, the nightmare of the mind playing tricks with shadows on my bedroom wall. Although the above shadow isn't obviously threatening, it has the faint suggestion of looming beasts. Would it be too much to create shadows of scary beasts and hide them within the scene? Or just make them vaguely frightening? Eyes in the dark?