Traditional Photo Study

Here I attempted to create a photo study of one of Rembrandt's self portraits. I went out and got some paint supplies from The Works, they were all very cheap so I wasn't expecting much of quality from them however I didn't expect the bristles from the paint brushes to come off constantly while I was painting which was extremely annoying. 

I did a quick sketch of the painting, not in too much detail because I will be painting over it etc. I haven't done traditional painting properly in years, so this was a bit daunting for me and I didn't know what the result would be and I was anxious about disappointing myself too. I had difficulties that I hadn't encountered since I moved to digital such as being able to have the line art on the top layer until you're painting could support itself. With traditional I had to paint over it which was horrible and I felt lost for the first part of the painting. I did however enjoy it.























As you can see below, is some of my process when painting this. Throughout the process the painting kept changing shape and expression. Again this is not something that I'm used to when I paint digitally as I usually have a plan in my head and know exactly what I want to create. This could hinder me in the future and I think its a bad habit over all, I should take the time to learn to just paint without a massive expectation which is what I started to learn while painting this.
Overall I'm not too pleased with the outcome of the painting but I have leant a lot from this painting and I hope to incorporate that into my future paintings.

Rembrandt Van Rijn

Below is a mood board of the artist Rembrandt Van Rijn. He was a Dutch painter and etcher, born in 1606 and was generally considered one of the greatest painters in European art and Dutch history.

What I particularly like about his work is not only the skill and beauty of his portraits, but the cheekiness of a lot of his work, mostly the ones below in the mood board. I also really admire his visual style of painting and it's a style that appeals to me which I try to convey in my own paintings.

I plan on doing a photo study of one of his paintings in both a traditional and digital medium, to help create a better understanding of how he works as well as how I work compared to traditional and digital.

CAP Proposal

My future goals are to be an Illustrator and Visual Development Artist for films and for this project I am going to focus on the skills needed to achieve this.

In my previous semester I did the 2D character design brief, it helped me a lot when it came to the design process however due to time management and other issues my rendering skills fell short at the final hurdle. The project has made me more self-aware about the work I produce and the design process and pipelines of projects.  

  

For this semester I want to focus on my digital painting skills. My future goals is to work in the film industry as an Illustrator and Visual Development artist and enhancing my rendering skills will be very beneficial. I’ve also little experience when it comes to human anatomy and character design so this will also be a major focus for me during this semester. 

I want to start this project by getting back to my roots of when I would paint portraits all the time, except I want to challenge myself by focusing on character design and my painting skills. I would like to sketch and design a varity of different characters and then focus on one that I am happy with, get to know this character in the way they move and think before starting a final piece. This I believe would help me in my painting and drawing skills and improve my design process for future projects.