Hey everyone!
I am back this week with a new video and a new artwork.
And in this video I am going to show you my colouring process using watercolours and ink
and if you want to know what specific art materials I used in this video, they are listed
in the description box, so feel free to check those out.
I pretty much do that for all of my speed paint videos nowadays, so if you’re ever
curious about my art materials especially for specific artworks that I created or that
I posted here on YouTube, as well as how long that piece took me to make, then they are
listed in the description box of every speed paint video, so yeah!
Check those out.
And for this artwork, it is another Patreon art theme challenge.
This is the second one.
If you haven’t watched the first one that I posted here on YouTube, I will link it in
the cards section of this video, which is on the top right corner of every YouTube screen
thing.
And for this one, theme that was chosen was “gemstones”, so that’s what I worked
with.
And the whole process of actually coming up with this idea, like how it turned from the
theme to this final piece that you are seeing on this video, I feel like the process is
pretty convoluted, like it was a long winding process, so I won’t go through the whole
deal and pretty much bore you with the details.
Basically, this is the first artwork out of three that I did for this theme so I guess
you could call it like a mini series, and that’s kind of something that I’ve been
doing.
It’s like I take a theme and then I create maybe three artworks of it.
And the idea behind it is that I chose three gemstones, and there’s like heaps of them,
so I kind of narrowed it down to I guess my top three, and I created characters that I
thought represented the meaning behind each stone.
And I chose the stones that had a symbol or meaning that I thought could easily be personified.
So the pose, the clothes and facial expressions of these characters try to capture the stone
they represent.
And I also went for a kind of royal character so like a prince or a king, and the reason
behind that is because it was pretty much eh only way that I could come up with where
the gemstones and the people could be incorporated together in a context makes sense.
So this character is supposed to be a prince or a king and he rules some kind of gemstone
kingdom I don’t know that part of this idea isn’t super hashed out.
There really isn’t a back-story behind this character.
It’s more just me trying to personify this stone and trying to get that personality across
– communicating that to the audience or to you guys through the use of the pose, the
clothes and the facial expression.
So that’s what I did for this one, and if you can’t already tell based on the video
title, the chosen stone for this is the ruby.
So I have the character sitting on the throne made out of ruby and that influenced the colour
palette of this artwork and you’ll in the others ones as well that the colour of the
stone also influenced the minimal colour palette of each artwork.
Another reason why I decided on the throne and for the character to be sitting down instead
of for example drawing them as just a portrait is because to show more of the body I felt
like it could better represent the personality.
I mean yes you can do that with a portrait, but I feel like you have to do it really really
well in order to communicate the idea across.
I don’t know maybe I just wasn’t confident to do a portrait or I just feel like I couldn’t
execute it well.
So I stuck with something like this where it shows the body and there’s kind of more
to work with.
I also find it really interesting how the way someone sits can give an indication to
their character traits – like in film and theatre – the way a person sits or the way
a person stands can instantly tell the audience what kind of character this is.
And I actually watched this video once in a production design class that I took back
in university.
And I’ll link the video down below.
I think it’s called In Praise of Chairs by Tony Zhou, I hope I’m pronouncing that
name right.
And yeah!
So it talks about the importance of chairs in film as part of the production design.
So for example, different chairs allow you to sit differently on each of them, therefore
it can greatly contribute into the telling of the story.
I don’t know.
I don’t think I’m doing a very good job at explaining what the content of that video
was, so I highly urge you guys to watch the video itself because it does a much better
job at explaining why chairs are important.
And it’s- it’s not just chairs; it uses chairs as just one example as to why production
design is important to the way a character is created and the way a story is told.
So it’s not just chairs.
I hope you’re getting what I’m trying to go with this.
And because this artwork and the idea behind it is pretty much personality-driven, I had
to apply some of the knowledge that I gained from that class into this – which I think
is pretty cool how different disciplines of art can come together and help each other
out or how inspiration can come from everywhere.
I mean it really does.
It comes from the things that we consume.
So I think that’s pretty cool.
And yeah, I felt like I could tell you more about this person’s personality if I drew
him sitting on a chair instead of just keeping it as a portrait.
Though I had a bit of trouble bringing the person and the chair together in this artwork.
Like in the beginning they look very separate, and I tried to unite them by adding hints
of red on his clothing, and then later I also played with shadows, trying to bring the person
into the context I guess.
But I don’t know shadows is something that I need serious work on so I don’t think
I did such a good job on that, but aside from that, I love how this artwork turned out.
I mean I love the colours and I was just so surprised when I finished this.
I kind of kept looking at it for a little while because I was just so proud and I really
like how it turned out and I also really like how the other two turned out.
Speaking of, I know I talked about this being 1 out of 3 artworks for this theme, so that
means that’s there’s two more that looks similar to this one but in different colours,
and inspired by different gemstones.
So what I’m going to do is I’m going to upload those as separate videos, but they’re
probably not going to be as long as this one, and they also wont have any commentary since
I’ve already talked about the process of this artwork in this video, so if I talk about
the process again in those other videos it might just seem repetitive, but if you have
any questions regarding this artwork, like anything you want me to elaborate on or discuss
further, then let me know in the comments below.
Or maybe if you have an art discussion topic that you’d like me to talk about that might
relate to this mini series, then let me know as well.
But yeah!
That’s pretty much it.
I hope you enjoyed this.
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And you can reach me through my social media, which are linked in the description box.
I’ve got Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr.
I also have this artwork and the other two available as prints on Society6.
So you can get a sneak peak of what the other two look like if you visit my Society6 shop
because they’re already up there.
And yeah!
Don’t forget to check me out on Storenvy and Patreon, and maybe you can help choose
the next theme that I create an artwork for.
And yeah!
Thank you so much for watching and I will see you in my next one!