Evaluation

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.