Character research, mood boards

 I first started to research into different religions and interesting people around the world that devote themselves to their religion. I looked monks and others but the one i found the most interesting are the Sadhu who worship Hinduism. Sadhu means good man, holy man, they devote their life to their religion travelling around India living anywhere they can, caves, forests and temples. These travelling monks are seen smoking marijuana on a regular basis as they believe it helps them to achieve their journey to a higher plane. More than anything i found their appearance very interesting, very slim lean characters often covered in ash with brightly coloured face paint, barely wearing any clothing apart from pieces of material and their hair dread locked. I think this type of character clearly looks religious although again the struggle is to show the afterlife within a character, so i wanted to do some more research. I thought about characters that are clearly recognisable and linked with the afterlife such as angels and demons, and even the grim reaper.

Here is another mood board i created. The only problem with looking at angels, demons, and the grim reaper is that they aren't 'real' so i am only able to gather images of other artists interpretation of them. Still there are lots of different images and ideas to take away from this mood board to come up with something new and creative. If anyone looked at this mood board they would know its to do with the afterlife, so somehow i need to combine religion and the afterlife to come up with something that's easily recognisable but new and unique.