Tonight I scanned a few pieces that I have been working on in class, just to keep you all caught up. Adding pictures to this blog shall be a learning experience. Yes, a learning experience. No, not defeating task, don't even think that! Here we go...
This first one I am about to try displaying was the first picture I did in this class. I am studying illustration and I thought I should start off with something that was completely my own style. So I picked a Greek myth that sounded interesting and gave it a shot. This one was all about Hades, and his long named (which I cannot pronounce, nor remember how to spell) wifey. She was the daughter of Demeter, and was said to be so beautiful that even Hades wanted her. And so he took her. Just swallowed her down into the underworld one morning when she was out, doing nobody and harm, minding her own business, picking flowers. Well, as you can imagine, Demeter was so upset she had lost her daughter that she took her anger out on the common folk - she denied them their crops and forced them to live in a cold, barren, wasteland...a.k.a. winter. So now, every time Hades takes his wife away from the earth and to the underworld, Demeter causes winter. I tried to illustrate that by putting the flowers on the wife's dress, and making Athens appear to be grey, less colorful than the ground Mrs. Wife is on, perhaps even *gasp* covered in snow!
My scan didn't come out very good - in real life, there is more color in the background and the little city isn't so ugly looking. :(
Next. This one was my effort at letting go, and not being so realistic. Success or failure? I'm still on the fence about that. It's obviously not realistic. I mean, do you have a bird coming out of your head? I hope note. But at the same time I was hoping her face would be more...painterly I guess.
Finally, this is a preview of the one I am currently working on. This one was inspired by Alphonse Mucha. His work is amazing. Beautiful. Elegant. Just lovely. A coworker actually introduced me to his work and it is all amazing. I am especially fond of the decorative panels he does, and so I thought I'd try something inspired by his work. He did panels of the four seasons, and here is my rendition:
[To view the piece larger, just click on the image.]
Obviously there is a season missing, and I hope you can depict which one. Spring. And again, this is a work in progress - I am quite aware that Summer has an interesting and ugly look on her face. But it's getting there, slowly but surely.
Phew. Putting those pictures on here wasn't a nightmare! The only problem I have is that when i try to make them larger, so you can better view the detail, the picture overflows into the right sidebar of the blog, and that just looks ugly. So, for the sake of the aesthetics of the blog, you might just have to squint.
Happy Thursday. :)
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