Monday, November 7, 2011

"Aliens Eating Babies" Final Illustration

"Aliens Eating Babies" Final Illustration
For the final composition for this piece, I wanted the first thing that catches the observer's attention to be the colors, and how they influenced each other.  I learned that painting wet paint into wet paint creates a useful blending technique, and that's what I used to paint the pipes.  I kept the painting fairly simplistic to keep the focus on the alien and the baby, because they are not as large as they should have been.  If I was to do anything differently, I would have made the alien, table, and baby bigger, and then would have put some more "alien technology" in the background. Overall I feel the piece is a success.

Anthropomorphic Portrait Sketch

Anthropomorphic Portrait- Sketch
For this sketch I had to research what an Anthropomorphic Portrait even was before I could attempt it myself.  I saw a lot of animals with human characteristics, and I wanted to go in a slightly different direction, so I sliced the page in half and drew a woman with a "split-personality", where her fearsome side i showing through. I think that this sketch works for the assignment because it gives off the feeling of both the woman and the tiger. If I could change anything, I would probably try to shade better without any smudging.