Weekly Reflection - Personal Work
In the past week i have been creating artwork for my live brief project, NCL-Con Convention, in my weekly review of work i have selected on of my favourite pieces that i have created this week.
the piece that i have created is based on Hayao Miyazaki's character from his Studio Ghibli film Princess Mononoke. The reason i selected this charcer and film is becuase it is a well known film amoungst the genral target audiance i am aiming for in anime fans. Studio Ghibli films make it in cinema's all across the wrold and Studio Ghibli's film Spirited Away winning an osccar in 2001. So this shows its mass popularity and its reputation as an amazing series of films, becoming so well known that they now work with Disney to create their films. Company director Hayao Miyazaki has such enthusiasm and decication to his animations that he has come out of retirment 4 times just to create more films.
Not only have i decided to create a Mononoke basedp iece of artwork becuase i'm knowlgable pf its popularity but als these films are lose to me as an artist. Visuals and charcters foundi n these films have always inspired me to create more and more artwork of this i just imagine up and have fun when creating my charcters and make them how i want them to be no matter how weird they are.
In this piece of artwork i chose a totally new methods of digital painting. i normally create my artwork in grey scale first to work out the lighting and shadows in the piece. however sometimes i feel that no matter how much i layer up color it always somehow seems dull. so as an experiment i decided to paint all of this on one layer straight in color. whilst i had less control of lighting and colors i found it to create an interesting effect in my work where i feel that more natural lighting and shading tones and colors shone through in my work. looking at specific parts in the painting if we look at the fur around her neck and back, there is a wide variety of shades and colors in the shadows and i just feel that this is more visually pleasing then using the Rembrandt technique of painting in grey scale first as i feel it can dulled the image overall and maybe even making coloring too easy ? maybe its better with experimental mistakes.
I'm very happy with the overall outcome and i feel I've made personal progress as an artist and finding my own styles and techniques as this has been a total change to my normal drawing style and ways in method.
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