Harbinger of Death
In the process of this piece, I changed my mind countless times. At first, I worked to make the background a muted green, purple, brown, and grey color. Once I had lay down some of these colors and put in the skin color of the angel, I realized that the background was only taking from him. I wanted him and the dragon to be able to pop off the page more by giving them lighter skin and giving myself a darker background. I may have had too much fun with color, but the idea of reds and blues made the image more attractive to the eye, and I'm glad I did it. I feel I've been having trouble with proportions when trying to create the 3D illusions of certain subject being behind others. The two main subject having the same values throughout and only having these values change in the background makes the image look flat.
This is, hopefully, a deceitful image that forces you to get up close to figure out what is happening. The paranoid, horned angel chewing his fingernails, is a product of my anxiety. I won't go into detail about where this anxiety comes from. While trying to be pure and angelic on the outside, there is something in the back of my mind telling me I need to act on my angry thoughts and take down this evil entity that plagues me. In my mind, I am doing that exact thing, but it does not make me feel any better since I know that this revenge will only make me feel worse if I act on it. I know there's nothing I can do other than let go, but I don't want to. The dragon is that entity being taken down in the back of my mind, represented by the horns. But the angel is still obviously upset, because this he knows this fixes nothing. That anger is still there and so is the anxiety, no matter what he does.
While this project is representative of my own emotions, the characters are still those of their own. While no exact story is shown in this piece, I wanted to show more of an artistic setup. The angel is still a character that you can tell has his own personality and perhaps problems. I thought that the title, Harbinger of Death was suitable for the angel as he's, in his own way, foretelling the dragon's death. He is a mix of angel and devil while having his own combination of emotions.
This is, hopefully, a deceitful image that forces you to get up close to figure out what is happening. The paranoid, horned angel chewing his fingernails, is a product of my anxiety. I won't go into detail about where this anxiety comes from. While trying to be pure and angelic on the outside, there is something in the back of my mind telling me I need to act on my angry thoughts and take down this evil entity that plagues me. In my mind, I am doing that exact thing, but it does not make me feel any better since I know that this revenge will only make me feel worse if I act on it. I know there's nothing I can do other than let go, but I don't want to. The dragon is that entity being taken down in the back of my mind, represented by the horns. But the angel is still obviously upset, because this he knows this fixes nothing. That anger is still there and so is the anxiety, no matter what he does.
While this project is representative of my own emotions, the characters are still those of their own. While no exact story is shown in this piece, I wanted to show more of an artistic setup. The angel is still a character that you can tell has his own personality and perhaps problems. I thought that the title, Harbinger of Death was suitable for the angel as he's, in his own way, foretelling the dragon's death. He is a mix of angel and devil while having his own combination of emotions.