Hello fellow art nerds! Welcome back to the Winged Canvas channel :)
My name is Rachael and today I am going to be teaching you some
educational facts about Salvador Dali while I turn him
into an anime character!
So I will be using this image of Mr. Dali.
This is what I'll be referencing I just chose this image because
he looks super expressive in this photo and in anime, characters tend to be
expressive so I thought this would be a good one.
Also because it's a super famous image of him and it's iconic!
So I'll get started with the basic shape. A circle for the head
and kind of.. get this little part of his face here..
Kind of draw his hair, starting with this hairline over here.
Map out where his ear is.
Just doing a rough sketch to lay down the foundational elements.
I'm just drawing these lines to map out where his facial features will be
get that iconic mustache in there and I think we have the basic sketch
done so I'm going to do the line art now.
Right now it looks a little silly what I'm doing. I'm just kind of
creating his hairline right now by doing these little strokes with the marker.
This is just so that it's not a really blunt line that separates his face from
his hair. I'm doing these little marks to emulate
single hairs.
So these shapes that I just drew in the hair are
little guidelines for me to know where I predict the light is hitting his hair
based on the reference photo. I can see that there's some light that's hitting
his hair here and I'm just kind of exaggerating that
to fit the anime style that I'm drawing Mr. Dali in.
So I don't want to waste all the ink in my smaller marker so right now I'm using
a thicker tipped marker to color in his hair.
I'm using a sharpie for this you can see with the lines I drew earlier for his
hairline that if I hadn't put those there, there would just be a harsh line
and it just kind of creates a smoother transition.
And now that I have the basic line work done, I'm going to erase my lines
my pencil lines with my eraser. Compared to the reference photo, this is
looking really flat and that's where colouring comes in. I'm
going to be using markers to add shadows and more depth to the face.
So what I'm going to do is be colouring him in
black and white like most of the images I see of him.
As you may or may not know, Salvador Dali was
a super famous painter known for his surrealism
and influence on modern art. His career spanned more than six decades and
throughout that time, he created well-known pieces such as
"The Persistence of Memory",
"A Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before
Awakening" and my personal favorite, the "Lobster telephone".
Dali began painting at the young age of six. I'll put an image of his first piece
on the screen. Six. He was six years old when he painted
this. It really points to his natural born
talent. Did you know Dali believed he was a
reincarnation of his dead brother? His older brother passed away nine
months before Dali was born and when his parents took him to his brother's
grave, they told him he was his brother's
reincarnation and he believed it. It's no surprise that Dali was an
extremely talented individual so it may surprise you when I say that
he was expelled from art school not once! But twice. While studying at the Fine
Arts Academy in Madrid, he was expelled once for his role in a student protest
and the other time for refusing to sit for his oral exams.
Although Dali is now well known for being a pivotal figure in the surrealist
movement, at the time, many surrealists weren't too
fond of him. Many surrealists at the time were
communists and weren't pleased with Dali's
fascination with Hitler. Dali went as far as including Hitler in his artwork.
An example can be seen in this 1958 piece,
"Metamorphosis of Hitler's Face Into a Moonlit Landscape with
Accompaniment". Dali created this Nazi leader's portrait
disguised in a landscape. Mr. Dali was also quite conniving. Yoko Ono had once
asked Dali to sell him one of his infamous mustache hairs but Dali
believed Yoko Ono was a witch and might use it for
a spell so he sent a dry blade of grass. Yoko Ono sent Dali $10,000
for it! Jeez! In 1946, Dali and Disney collaborated on an
animated film called "Destino". The artist created 22 oil paintings that
Disney designer John Hench turned into film storyboards,
but 8 months into the project, it came to a halt due to financial reasons.
53 years later, Walt Disney's nephew decided to revive the production
and now a finished six-minute short tells the story of a ballerina
on a surreal journey through a desert landscape.
I'll include a link to the video in the description.
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