McLeodConcepts: 2014

Monday, March 31, 2014

Final Term First Environment

The words I have in my head as I compose this are - cozy, mysterious, strange, hidden, trapped, warm, deep and creepy.

I've never put a lot of time into environment paintings. This term I've decided to do at least one to the best I can to see where I need the most practice. I start each class watching a tutorial on the subject to get my head in the game. It helps to do some warm up drawings or to watch videos of people working. My brain has to get into the drawing mood or else my work will come out wonky.

In order to keep myself from thinking about too much at once I try to break down the painting into phases. First was composition. Second was value, and now that I have planned out the value groups and the mood I am going for I am starting to work out the details as I have started to in the bottom right.

I don't have a huge library in my head yet for plants so I use reference all the time. I always have at least 4 different plants open off to the side.

My goal is to have a very bright cave full of iridescent plants on the bottom, glow worms on the ceiling and a bright focused skylight bringing focus to the center nest.

Hopefully this will turn out awesome. I'll try to post more often.