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Aether and Portraits

DIGITAL WORK USING AN INTUOS4 TABLET.

THIS WORK IS EXPERIMENTATION IN USING THE INTUOS4 TABLET, SO FIRST I DREW THREE FIGURES BASED FROM AN IDEA CALLED "THE PLANETS" WHERE EVERY PERSON IN THE WORLD REPRESENTS A PLANET, SO THEIR NAMES AND APPEARANCES REFLECT THE STATE OF THE PLANET THAT THEY REPRESENT.

THERE ARE THREE "PLANETS":

EARTH - NOT OUR OWN PLANET EARTH BUT THE EARTH IN GENERAL. HE IS WEARING A POKEMON HOODIE AND HAS LIZARD EYES. I DREW HIM WITH THE INTENT OF HAVING A SORT OF DANGEROUS ELEMENT WITH THE EYES AND YET THERE IS AN INNOCENCE WITH WEARING THE HOODIE.

NYX - NAMED AFTER THE GREEK PRIMORDIAL GODDESS OF THE NIGHT. NYX WAS A SHADOWY FIGURE THAT EVEN ZUES FEARED THE WRATH OF. I MADE NYX MALE BECAUSE I FIND IT HARD DRAWING FEMALES WHICH CHANGED A FEW THINGS ABOUT HIM. I MADE THE DARKNESS ASSOCIATED WITH NIGHT INTO THE COOL MELLOW MOOD OF DUSK WITH A HOODIE TO HIDE HIMSELF WHEN THINGS GET REALLY TOUGH.

AIR (AETHER) - ORIGINALLY MEANT TO BE AIR, I MADE HIM AETHER INSTEAD BECAUSE AETHER IS A MORE MYSTERIOUS ELEMENT IN MYTH SO IN TURN ADDED A MYSTICAL ELEMENT TO HIM, THE MYSTERY IN THAT WHAT COLOUR ARE HIS EYES AND SUCH.

I THEN EXPERIMENTED WITH SELF PORTRAITS, SO I TOOK PICTURES OF MYSELF USING PHOTOBOOTH AND THEN DREW MYSELF. THERE ARE TWO SELF PORTRAITS:

BLANK - WHICH CAME FIRST, IT HAS A MORE UNFINISHED AND RUSHED LOOK TO IT, BUT IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I PRODUCED A SELF PORTRAIT DIGITALLY.

WONDER - I WAS BOLDER WITH WONDER, AND ACCEPTED TONES AND JUST ADDED COLOUR AND ADDED. I DIDN'T ERASE ANYTHING HERE, JUST WORKED OVER IT CONTINUOUSLY UNTIL IT WAS CORRECT.
Aether and Portraits
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Aether and Portraits

Experimental digital artwork using an Intuos4 Graphics Tablet (Wacom). Focuses on the anthropomorphic personifications of planets and self portra Read More

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