Evaluation:
The
theme of my project is an underwater fantasy landscape concept drawing, I want
to do this because I really like underwater landscapes as well as the genre of
fantasy so I wanted to join them together and make a landscape.
I
started with the idea of a fantasy underwater landscape and then did initial
drawings related to my idea and developed them to fit into a underwater fantasy
world, I also began to expand the idea and I decided to add an underwater demon
so I wondered how to add this into my idea and I started to think of a
narrative scene to go with my concept piece, the problems I encountered with
this demon idea were trying to figure out how to add it to my concept piece
then I started an initial drawing of a vortex and the reason behind a “vortex”
is so the demon can cross over to the underwater realm but I needed a native species
living in the underwater realm, this is when I began my research into artists I
found and I had a look into their work and decided to add mermaids as that
native species after that I started more initial drawings on mermaids and
developed all my ideas and started my FMP background and make all the lights
and the gloom in the sea, in addition I worked on my demon and made him battle-scarred
and beaten.
Some
of the reference material I have was from the internet and I had someone pose
for dynamic poses for my demon character and the references I used for my artist
research were images of underwater landscapes and I also used images of demonic
warriors for my demon.
This helped because I can use traits from the warrior to
my demon and the references for the artists helped my greatly! In my research
because I can say what the image makes me feel and where the vocal points are
and to talk about dominant and sub dominant forms, this made me change where
all the objects are in my piece and place them in a more narrative scene and to
show dominant and sub dominant forms.
The
materials I used for my FMP are Photoshop and Pencil and paper, I used pencil
and paper to start off because I needed to do initial drawings and gain an idea
for what I should add in my final project after I got all my initial and
developed drawings, I used Photoshop to colour and texture my work with lighting,
the techniques I used a paint brush most of the time while doing my final piece
in Photoshop.
I
am happy with my final piece because it is the best I could do and I spent a
lot of time on it also I used a lot of techniques I learn so far, I am proud of
the background the most because I put a lot of work into it and if I could
change anything I would change the mermaids face a tiny bit so I can make them
more girly.
I
gave this project my best and I would not do anything differently, I had a lot of
ideas but this one is my favourite, two problems were how to put the demon into
my project and what species I should use in my project and I solved these by
looking at different artists work to see what species I should use and I solved
the demon problem by asking my peers on what I should do so I made the vortex
so he can come through the void into the mermaids world.
