After a week of working and layering, the final of the prismacolor project is finished. For my piece, I chose to create a reflection of myself drawing within a puddle of paint and water that gathered in the paint lid. I chose to use this after thinking of something that relfects who I am and what I like, and art is a very large part of that. Not to mention, the colors that make up my face are bright and represent the idea that our personalities are made of a patch work of different things, like paint blending into a singular color that reflects who we are. I greatly enjoyed experementing with the color pencils and realising how suprizingly good I was at it. The composition is nice, and despite the trouble with the desk texture at first, it blends nicely.
It took some time and thought to come up with the idea of reflective paint, mainly because I was stuck on another idea I thought was cool, but did not really convey my personality. I remebered a time when my water color paints got rather messy and the puddles of water and paint created a cool effect on the plastic lid. After taking a few pictures of my brushes, pencil, and paint set, the project was ready to roll. I love the work on the metal parts of the brushes. The metalic look stands out beautifully on the wood in the background and seems very real. Not to mention that the original paper showing through creates a reflection on the brushes themsleves. The pencil turned out increadibly good, too, with nice blending, shading, and an accurate shadow angle.
If I could adjust one thing, it would be the back ground shown in the water reflection. It works for now, but up close, it doesn't exactly look... accurate or like my actual wall.
It took some time and thought to come up with the idea of reflective paint, mainly because I was stuck on another idea I thought was cool, but did not really convey my personality. I remebered a time when my water color paints got rather messy and the puddles of water and paint created a cool effect on the plastic lid. After taking a few pictures of my brushes, pencil, and paint set, the project was ready to roll. I love the work on the metal parts of the brushes. The metalic look stands out beautifully on the wood in the background and seems very real. Not to mention that the original paper showing through creates a reflection on the brushes themsleves. The pencil turned out increadibly good, too, with nice blending, shading, and an accurate shadow angle.
If I could adjust one thing, it would be the back ground shown in the water reflection. It works for now, but up close, it doesn't exactly look... accurate or like my actual wall.