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Day 9's offering for the January 2012 Sketch-A-Day project is up!!
Let Go
Well, it's been a roller coastery couple of days, emotionally speaking. While art doesn't necessarily act as a purging mechanism for me, it does allow me to give whatever is floating around in my head a "face," as it were.
Day 9's offering for the January 2012 Sketch-A-Day project is up!!
Let Go
Well, it's been a roller coastery couple of days, emotionally speaking. While art doesn't necessarily act as a purging mechanism for me, it does allow me to give whatever is floating around in my head a "face," as it were.
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You know, you do smoke effects and vaporous swirly illustrations better than anyone I've ever seen. Somehow, you've made this look both spiritual and supernatural (in the sense of an apparition) without making it look at all like the usual visual interpretation of an out of body experience. I really really like how you used bold white lines next to soft faint lines to show the depth of the smoke/mist, but it also lends a very heavy feeling, like a fog rolling out across a surface.
The lighting is the next thing that really stands out for me in this one. My first thought was, oh, the light is coming from the spirit above the figure..but then I looked again and it was clear that it was coming from up above the spirit AND the figure, which is an even more interesting approach! You did an awesome job in using high contrast between the white and graphite to really push and pull the shapes with value in this piece.
Although your intention with this piece was to, as you put it, put a face on how you are feeling or what you are dealing with, I think that the viewer can come away with a lot of different interpretations, depending on what they are feeling at the time of viewing it. Some will feel that this is a scene of death and resurrection, while others will see it as exhaustion leading to an out of body experience. Others might see this as an angel watching over someone who has collapsed, and others might yet see it as a visualization of the ideal manifested in one's soul.
So many little details that add so much to this piece..its hard to count them all and point them out! The downcast eyes of the spirit figure, as if looking down upon the figure on the ground, is one of them. Another is the shirt riding up naturally at the midsection, giving a real sense of collapse, punctuated by the figure's pose. The pose itself is really well made and very natural feeling, too. It's not an easy one, but you really captured that feeling of "this is not a comfortable way to sleep, the figure isn't laying there because she is catching some z's".
This might not have the intensity of some of the previous pieces that capture how you are feeling when things are going roughly, but it absolutely carries a hell of a lot of weight and depth. The more I look at this, the more it feels like time slows down around me. Really well done.
The lighting is the next thing that really stands out for me in this one. My first thought was, oh, the light is coming from the spirit above the figure..but then I looked again and it was clear that it was coming from up above the spirit AND the figure, which is an even more interesting approach! You did an awesome job in using high contrast between the white and graphite to really push and pull the shapes with value in this piece.
Although your intention with this piece was to, as you put it, put a face on how you are feeling or what you are dealing with, I think that the viewer can come away with a lot of different interpretations, depending on what they are feeling at the time of viewing it. Some will feel that this is a scene of death and resurrection, while others will see it as exhaustion leading to an out of body experience. Others might see this as an angel watching over someone who has collapsed, and others might yet see it as a visualization of the ideal manifested in one's soul.
So many little details that add so much to this piece..its hard to count them all and point them out! The downcast eyes of the spirit figure, as if looking down upon the figure on the ground, is one of them. Another is the shirt riding up naturally at the midsection, giving a real sense of collapse, punctuated by the figure's pose. The pose itself is really well made and very natural feeling, too. It's not an easy one, but you really captured that feeling of "this is not a comfortable way to sleep, the figure isn't laying there because she is catching some z's".
This might not have the intensity of some of the previous pieces that capture how you are feeling when things are going roughly, but it absolutely carries a hell of a lot of weight and depth. The more I look at this, the more it feels like time slows down around me. Really well done.