MINPINS

 

From the sketches I made of Roald Dahl's 'Minpins' characters, I created this first little Minpin girl. She's just missing her hat/bonnet that wouldn't stay on with the wind today.

Her head is 25mm diameter so the smallest doll yet! She's teenytiny and just how I wanted her to look. Natural colours, charming and Dahl-esque without being a reproduction of Quentin Blake's (or even Patrick Benson's) illustrations. 

I'd like more fabrics and accessories on her, maybe things made from wood bark/pine cones etc to make her look as if she is a wilderperson, living in the trees, wearing an acorn hat. I have lots of feathers which I wanted to use on the hat but they're sooo big in proportion to the dolls so I might need to make some smaller feathers from these.

Make her a bit more wild/rugged/windswept/mucky? Muddy knees?

Looks good close up but how will it look when I have lots of Minpins? You won't be able to see the detail from far away/as a long shot with all of the characters visible.

HOW MANY MINPINS? How many looks like a family? A tree-full? Need to sketch out compositions in tree.

Walked to Studley Deer Park in Ripon, there's a whole stretch of these glorious trees with hollows and hiding holes... lots of moss, mushrooms and a great setting for this.

Photographing outdoors - how do I light it? Do I need a filter (UV)? Best settings/do I need a different lens? Tripod.

ALSO NEED TO CONSIDER HOW TO INCORPORATE THE LOGO POST-PHOTOS. Will it overlay neatly? Where?

THE PHOTO NEEDS TO WORK AS A SET WITH THE OTHER TWO (James & The Giant Peach and The Witches). Do I add a quote to make it obvious which story it is from?