Let me start with this: I did NOT aim for this piece to turn out how it did. That being said, I don't hate it. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it, but it's not the worst thing I've ever done. It was, however, a very stressful process. Anyone who saw me working on this piece will tell you that I had a seemingly constant internal battle with myself regarding the eyes. The main issue was that none of the eyes I drew looked right with the piece, which is something that usually never happens with me. I love drawing and painting eyes, so the fact that they were turning out so badly was a bit of a blow to my love of eyes. Eventually I decided to just leave them blank until I figured out what to do, and it ended up sticking. Again, I don't hate the absence of eyes, but it's still super off-putting to me. I do feel like they ended up looking kind of angry in the end, when in the beginning they looked more sad and emotional, which I would have preferred to the angry look. Another regret, before I get into what I actually like about this piece, the hair is WAY too dark. I keep looking back at my old in-progress pictures where the hair is light, and I get SO upset with myself for making it as dark as I did. I think it would have been a nice contrast to how dark the piece got. More than anything, I just wish this piece had ended up more emotional than creepy, because that was not the vibe I was going for at all.
Okay, so I do like some of this piece. The whole torso-plant-thorn thing I have going on is one of the coolest things I've done, and I love the way it looks in the pen and ink. I think it's really interesting how underneath the vines the body is totally empty, and the vines still look like they are popping out from her body. It definitely gives an eerie atmosphere to the piece, and I like how she is almost entirely covered in the vines. Because of how much I like the vines, I really think that this piece could have been a favorite of mine if it weren't for the face and hair. I actually realized after this piece that it works really well with my concentration theme (more on that later) and how it might look really cool if I redid it with oil paint or watercolors. It would be really interesting to me to see how it would look if I changed the medium. I will probably end up doing that just because I love the idea behind the piece, and I want it to look how I imagine it in my head, while still keeping it visually cohesive with my concentration. All in all, its not a bad piece (at least I don't think it is), I just wish it had turned out more like I had imagined.
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