Is that blue azure I hear?
synesthesia-is a rare condition when one’s senses come together. In the case of this illustration it is when letter are heard as colors. This is a study for my current project.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
I Can See The Light Coming Through
So this is what happened to the person in the bathrobe. Still haven’t modified the person to make robe open and hood. This is just an idea for the color palette. Will be using some goldy yellows for the light I think…. Also the books to the right are too slanted. Need to adjust that. PErhaps the colors of the books should be different and muted shades in the shadows..
What is the motif in your life that returns again and again?
This is about how you don’t really know what events are significant in your life until you have hindsight. Certain motifs or events come back again and again. In the case of VN it was butterflies thus I have a dangling monarch cocoon. The reader will be reading a book with a butterfly resting on it. The repetition of the cyprus clusters will continue to the right of the reader instead of the circular tree to the left to emphasize the idea of repetition and motif… Let’s see…. oh, the glasses will be pink as she will be reading that famous book of his.
Need to do color on this. I guess it will be a spring day. The monarch definately has to be orange and blacky-grey or brown. The girl can be wearing an orange shirt and pink glasses. The book is pink. The grass a tender green fading out to a yellow horizon crowned by a pinky orange sunset.
I might want to give myself more space to lay color in the foreground.
Also note the cocoon hanging from the apple tree instead of an apple. Kind of funny no?
When a hand rules a head.
Experience is not making me faster just more demanding. I can now allow myself to see flaws in things that used to be forgivable.
Anyway, this new drawing of a person in a bathrobe is a piece to the series I am building.
I am not sure about this images as a solution but here is the problem: The problem is that I wanted to draw a person that is neither a man nor a woman — necessarily. PLUS also wanted the notion of transfomation. This is what I came up with…
If I want to make it even less feminine, maybe I could take off belt which would de-accentuate the waist. That would work but it would also be adding a notion of exposure. Could work, I suppose. Then if I put a hood it will really be androgynus but could end up looking like a fighter or a big fluffy blob. (Note to myself: do not pack hooded terry bathrobe for romantic weekend.)
Darnit. Why didn’t I push this even more before I drew the lines? Honestly, I think it is because I loved the idea of drawing the lines of the turban which was tricky and playful and fun. By the way, this is not a case of me being more demanding. This is me slapping myself on the wrist for listening to my hand instead of my head.
I am going to have to leave it like this so I can advance on the rest of the project. I will have a chance to tinker with it in January.
