About week and a half before I leave to the trip and there's still stuff I need to do. I have few days work in the tattoo shop and my tattoo would need the second color layer - that might be done tomorrow. The final project of thesis of my art studies should be prepared to the level where I can start working with it as soon as I return back home in the middle of January. I have about a month time to work with it.
was very kind and shared some of her Dragunov screen captures for my thesis and the images have been a great help for thinking what kind of image I would do. The theme of the thesis is "Idolization of fictional characters as part of the gaming culture" and the art history part is about fanart. Not... well, usual theme, I'd say. Usually themes - at least in the school where I am - are something like a self-portrait, a nude photography, painting of old memories, studying of shapes by the painting or by photographing... The regular stuff. I'm too freak inside for regular stuff, ahahahah! Thank god teachers approved my idea. I was a bit worried they would say I couldn't do an art piece of something or someone what's/who's already been done (...err.. actually I don't know is Dragunov already "been done", but I suppose.. OK, bad joke).
I'm actually stressed out of the fact that I need to do idea sketches of the image for my teacher... I always, always plan the image in my head to the final form. I can't work my ideas on paper at all. Trust me, I tried. With my skills demonstration of Hwoarang (
[link]) I needed to do the idea sketches before starting to work with the art piece itself and I fucked the whole image. Took me 2,5 hours just to complete the line art when I usually managed to do it with 30 minutes. Fuck that.
I'm planning of making a bit darker image of Dragunov, with all fangirl hands groping, touching and finger fondling him. My opponent suggested I could make one palm glued against his chest, slowly sliding lower, and maybe making Dragunov look at the viewer with a cocked head, maybe with a little smirk, kind of "You can't have me, even though I know you want me SO BAD"-attitude. I liked that idea. I'm happy I have such a good opponent! She shares the same ideas and thoughts with the art piece as I do, and can point out something I didn't notice without it ruining what I want with the image.
The final image will be a poster size, something like 60cm/24 inches wide and maybe 100cm/40 inches tall. I've never colored anything that huge with tablet. I usually make images that size at school with traditional mediums, but the digital one will be challenging. I need to be so careful and detailed with the coloring. I'm not sure about the resolution - how much it needs to be in a image that size? Any ideas? I'm making the line art with a felt-tip pen, since I can't draw with tablet at all. It's only for coloring.
This all seems to stress me so much I feel somewhat exhausted, even though I'm happy. I felt a bit feverish yesterday and today. I guess I try to relax and take it easy. Watch some more images of Dragunov for the inspiration and scrap something together for teacher before the Japan's trip. And listen to some bit heavier music. It's such a long time I listened something darker, though these bands I have liked to listen to lately are such girly ones compared to the bands I used to like like... 10 years ago. Well, no matter of the music genre. As long as it's good and inspiring it can be anything to me.
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Away from 15th December to 10th of January
Bemused
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