Zhang Zao： 《In the Mirror》

“Merely looking back on life he had regrets

And plum blossoms would be snowing down

Such as watching her swim to the other side of the river

Such as climbing a pine wood ladder

Danger can indeed strike you as beauty

Not though as watching her return from a horse ride

With fiery cheeks

Bashful. Bowing her head, responding to the emperor

A mirror is since long set up for her

Let her then sit in the mirror, where she uses to sit   

Looking out of the window, merely to remember life and regret

Plum blossoms snowing down covering all of South Mountain”

Poetry itself has its own unique text charm and meaning
Contextual, in the process of reading poems, what inspired me is not only
My understanding of emotions, as well as the inspiration for painting, put poetry
It’s difficult to transform the delicate feelings of a person’s heart into images.
And not all poems can be a picture. because
Jumping for the imagery of poetry is fragmented, words and words
There can be no connection, and the image needs to be visualized,
We need an emotion that people can perceive, we need people
The contrast between objects and the environment.

So I chose Zhang Zao’s poem because it’s
Of course it jumps, but there is content that can be visualized, so
I tried it boldly.

The whole image retains the plot in the poem and adds myself
The idea of ​​removing the realism of the mirror, using a
The reflection method expresses the past and future of the woman in the mirror
come out. At the same time, in order to express the lightness, whiteness,
Soft, regretful, avoiding multiple colors in tones, use one
The falling plum petals serve as tears and are the finishing touch.
The emperor chose the Song Dynasty because the colors of the clothes were cleaner,
The emperor’s composition was treated the same as the poem
-Central position.

The following is mainly to explain my creative ideas.

Narrative length selection

Size The size of the composition needs to be determined at the beginning,
For example, horizontal bar or vertical bar? Although both
Both have a strong sense of epic, but the vertical and horizontal narrative
To decide a different composition.

I tried horizontal bars and sub-cameras in the early stages of drawing, but
It’s finally confirmed that the page size of the vertical strip is
Because the imagery of poetry cannot enrich the horizontal and long space.
After all, I can’t make up some dramas out of thin air that are not in the poem
situation.

The pine ladder initially formed the outline of the face
But then I changed to a straight ladder 
Because the curve ladder covers most of the face 
And the straight ladder has more graphic characteristics

The adjustment of characters is a difficult 
No entry point was found at first
You can only 
 typography as it looks
Later found that "full of Nanshan" this image 
Just the shoulder of the character as the Nanshan 
The rest of the "plum man" can land on the south mountain

The second illustration-《line to lie》

This is an eight-hour fast-moving piece of story that I hope will be drawn.

Thank you for watching my works～