Relinquish of Youth, Towards Worldly ResponsibilityIn-Progress PhotosReferencesSketchesReflectionThis piece is a continuation of the 5th piece, but from a wider perspective, as larger landmasses are visible from the perspective of a human, rather than a fairy. The purpose for this continuation is to show how in your childhood, you feel enclosed and safe from "reality". You feel as if you have no real responsibility and can live more carefree and peacefully, focusing on relatively small instances in life, whereas in adulthood, you have to see things from the "bigger picture" and use fear to your advantage to motivate you to take responsibility and plan for your life ahead. In this piece, I specifically include a green, mossy mountain with a waterfall in the background because this mountain resembles the island of Neverland from the Peter Pan movies, which Pixie Hollow is located near. By putting this mountain that resembles part of Pixie Hollow in the background, the piece expresses how you literally can't get your childhood back (because in Neverland, you stay there to never age; to escape adulthood). By the perspective showing such a far distance from not only the pixie hollow tree, but also the Neverland mountain, it's conveying how one is not only physically distant from childhood as time has passed, but also mentally from the more simple, peaceful state of mind that you once had when you saw the world in a much more refined, simpler way.
I began this digital illustrative process by starting with the same reference photo of the lake from my 5th piece. I utilized the same water composition that I had made in my 5th piece as the water for this piece, but I zoomed out slightly. The first thing that I decided to add was the pixie hollow tree, so I used reference photos of a mossy tree trunk to construct this. Since the images I took only showed a part of the tree trunk, I had to layer different details of the masks of the same reference multiple times, to form a complete tree. Next, I took the reference image that I had with the hole in the mossy tree trunk (the "moss fairy house"), and added this detail to the bottom of the tree, to make it feel like it would be the home to fairies. Next, I felt that the continuous water got a bit too repetitive and boring, so I searched through my camera roll and found an image that I had taken at the beach of the water and sand, and added that to the right, bottom corner of this piece. Like for all the other images that I superimposed into this piece, I had to mask and color-correct the foam and sand of this specific reference photo, to make sure that it looked natural and cohesive in the piece. After the tree was done and the shore was added in the corner, I focused on the background, adding a green mountain, a pink mountain, and multiple icy, white mountains. For the pink and green mossy mountains, I used the same moss photos from the tree, for such landforms, changing the colors of the moss to give variation. For the waterfall stream on the green mountain, I cropped out a small portion of the waterfall from a photo I had taken near the mountains, copying this white, waterfall water over and over again to create the elongated waterfall down the mountain. For the white mountains, I used a photo of a white rock I had taken, and color-corrected it to give it a blue-white tint. Lastly, I added some colorful trees to the left side of the background; I used different photos I found in my camera roll of trees and flowers I had taken, rapidly changing the colors to those that were very bright (i.e. neon pink, blue, yellow, purple), and copied these trees multiple times. After the background seemed mostly completed, I noticed that it looked odd because I had yet to add the reflections of the mountains and distant trees in the water. I quickly added such by taking a screenshot of the current version of my final piece, cropping out the section of this screenshot to only include the area of the land that I wanted to reflect, flipping the photo vertically, changing the perspective of the photo in superimpose, and then slightly erasing and making it somewhat transparent to still see the ridges of the water, After completing this piece, I really love how it came together to compliment the 5th piece. I think that I did a great job with these two digital pieces in trying to be out of the box and use new methods for making art. If I could do anything differently, I would add more trees to the background, and even add some pixie dust to the tree!
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorHi there, I'm Ashley and I love all mediums in which I can express my fascinations and emotions. Whether it be painting, music production, apparel production, 3-D modeling, drawing, or writing, I just adore creativity's endless possibilities. I am currently taking Apparel Production II Honors and AP 3-D Art while I work with music production and 3-D modeling outside of class. ArchivesCategories |