Here is another example of a project that I was really excited for in the beginning. When we began our practice project, I followed the original instructions, but after being unsatisfied with a few different attempts, I decided to change my approach toward the assignment. At this point, I was incredibly impressed with the way the lines seemed to form a crystalline shape. As a fan of fantasy work, and thus fantasy art, I have always had a particular affection for magical-looking pieces, especially with glowing lights. Fantasy art especially seems to have more saturated colors, making the world appear more lively and just colorful in general, which I have always admired. One of the greatest collections of art I’ve seen, actually, is the art done for cards from the game Magic the Gathering. The team of card makers has a wide collection of artists, although they’re all incredible. The universe of Magic is incredibly vast, allowing for many different types of art to be included in these beautiful cards. (Amazingly enough, the artists who drew the art are credited right on the cards!) Art like this, especially those of Magic the Gathering Cards (as I was once a big player) is one of the reasons I love fantasy art like this, and helped me decide on a subject for my project here. The other big thing that influenced this piece was a show I have just begun watching called Steven Universe. Like any other child’s cartoon, the animation is simplistic, but the big part that was inspiring for me was the fact that the main characters are all based off different kinds of gems. In addition, the show itself is quite colorful, as the aforementioned fantasy art is as well. Now, it wasn’t really the show’s artstyle that inspired me, but rather just the focus on the color and the way they drew the gems. Having seen similar art of crystalline shapes, especially with bright colors like pinks and purples, it brought me back to a lot of pieces that I really loved. Crystals, because of the way the light shines off them and through them, are excellent representations of the theme of value, especially because of their geometric form. Which is exactly why I decided to stick with the crystal look for this piece, and include the bright colors and the various reflections. Art like this, done by Caterina Caligiuri, is just one of the many examples of art like this that represents this “value”. (As stated, this art was done by Caterina Caligiuri) Now, because I made the practice piece that I did also my final product, the medium I was using was already chosen for me. I also decided to use colored pencils for this project because when I have done value before I always seemed to be able to achieve the best transitions with colored pencils. I got right to work with a ruler and a pencil, making the lines for my crystal shapes so I could color them in later. After that process was complete, I started next on the subject that was being reflected in the crystals: an eye. The character that this eye belongs to has a long backstory, and one that I won’t detail here, but the crystal was the perfect setting for him, so I knew that that’s what I wanted to include. I did the coloring of the eye before the crystals, to get a look somewhat like this. Next, I worked on the crystal colors, which ended up coming out a lot nicer than the eye, which by the end of the process I was actually disappointed with. If I have time, I may eventually attempt to go back and fix some of the issues I find with it. However, the colors I chose to fill in the crystals with were bright and fun, and I really loved the way they turned out, since they were almost exactly what I was hoping for. However, I would like to make the value transitions in the piece a bit more dramatic, and like with the eye, if I ever get the time I would like to go back and make some adjustments to the piece. However, overall I am happy with the way it turned out, although it did not exactly live up to my higher expectations.
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