Creating mood and atmosphere

Okay so this session was an interesting one. We were working with limited tools and colours to create a sense of mood and tone within an illustration.

I am currently trying to get some images together from the session as most of the images created took place in their own sketchbooks. Basically, the task was to select either a haunted house or carnival theme. From there they had to draw the scene in it's entirety using restricted materials; charcoal, fine liners and inks for haunted house and crayons, pastels and pens for carnival. One that task was complete they then had to zoom in on a section within the scene and draw it again, for example a ferris wheel or a room within the haunted house. When creating their scenes they had words to consider that would inform the mood, words like hazy, euphoric and colourful for carnival. 

I'll see what I can do to track down some examples from this session.
The following week's homework involved getting the students to create their own illustration in response to one of the descriptive words. Here is one for the word "abandoned".