Movement/Fighting Watercolors

colored pencil:

 

SeaLife Series

 

So when I'm not working on my senior exhibition in class, I'm working on my mini sea creature series.

Transforming sea creatures into girls with features to show what animal they represent. Seen above is the image that inspired this series, where I jellyfish and used the bell and tentacles as a hat while the other extensions of the jellyfish and her hair became a flowing gown.

I tried to stick within a cool color scheme, using mostly blues and blue-greens, but decided to use a purple for her hair and for the lower part of the dress to bring focus to her face and to draw the eye around the full image.

This second image is of a blue-ringed octopus girl, resting on a dock after trying to pull herself up. I still decided ti stick with watercolors and decided to make her entire body the skin tone because the blue-ringed octopus' coloration is similar to a human's skin tone.

With the tentacles, I tried to make each one have it's own personality and have it doing a different action, much like a really octopus.

FINAL Reflection Project

"Mermaid Dreams"

For this image, my final, I took a photography of a mermaid statue that I have owned for a year now. Even though it is missing an arm, it's still very beautiful and I thought it would be a perfect thing to photograph. 

I placed the statue, which is about a foot tall, on a stool with a white cover on it in front of a white background and used a strobe light tp try and get perfect lighting. I took 35 shots and found only 8 I like and decided to use this one. You can't see all of the mermaid, like in the previous photo I posted, but you can see just enough to get a feel of how much detail was used in creating the statue.

I edited the photo in photoshop, adding in a stock picture of some bubbles coming up from the ocean, up to the surface, to capture the feel her hair shows of floating. 

I chose this idea, still focusing on fantasy, because the subject of mermaids has always been important to me. They are something that everyone knows about. A common subject in stories and mythology all over the world. By taking this picture, I wanted to release the binds of people's imagination to not be afriad to believe in things others may not find real by trying to make the mermaid as realistic as I could. It's a little hard to tell, but that's what I was trying to do. I personally believe in the existance of mermaids and I believe my next series is going to be surrounded around this concept of making what people believe in real.

Mermaid

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Tutorial for new style

Rapunzel/Raputz ( NEW STYLE YO)

"Rapunzel"

"Rapunzel's escape"