Halloween Tree
It looks like this blog is doomed to the same fate of my past journals. Fear of commitment really does seep into every aspect of life. This really is just a guilt post.
Halloween Tree, ROAR. Work in progress. Based off of Ray Bradbury's kids' book of the same title. The book contains some fantastic (and occasionally ridiculous) imagery. The Halloween Tree grows jack-o-lanterns, as all genuine Halloween trees do. On this particular Halloween tree, the pumpkins represent the souls of the dying. I decided to cheat a little and have a pumpkin vine growing up a reaper-ish looking tree. (Those will look like jack-o-lantern faces, eventually.) I thought it'd be neat if the closer a jack-o-lantern was to the end of the top branch, the closer that particular person was to death.
Bradbury described the tree as a tall, pole-like thing, which seemed boring to me. So there you go, Ray—I've managed to out-cheese you. That is no easy feat. (Admittedly, I can't top swarms of tiny mummies.)
Suggestions and criticism on my progress are more than welcome, by the way. Painting advice would be wonderful.
Halloween Tree, ROAR. Work in progress. Based off of Ray Bradbury's kids' book of the same title. The book contains some fantastic (and occasionally ridiculous) imagery. The Halloween Tree grows jack-o-lanterns, as all genuine Halloween trees do. On this particular Halloween tree, the pumpkins represent the souls of the dying. I decided to cheat a little and have a pumpkin vine growing up a reaper-ish looking tree. (Those will look like jack-o-lantern faces, eventually.) I thought it'd be neat if the closer a jack-o-lantern was to the end of the top branch, the closer that particular person was to death.
Bradbury described the tree as a tall, pole-like thing, which seemed boring to me. So there you go, Ray—I've managed to out-cheese you. That is no easy feat. (Admittedly, I can't top swarms of tiny mummies.)
Suggestions and criticism on my progress are more than welcome, by the way. Painting advice would be wonderful.
posted by Keetsie Joy at 9:39 AM
5 Comments:
KEETSIE!!!!!!!!!! How is the animation going this summer! I'll be stopin' by to paint more before the summer is over...we need to go to tea!!or COFFEE! YAY!
PEACE
Andrea
about your painting, really sweet! I would say your values are interresting and volumetric, but i would push wherever the light source is comming from. Also, when you paint, dont forget to put down value and color all over. I was doing a painting at school and my first values and colors were great; then i painted in my darkest, most sautrated subject and it droped out the rest of the painting. work it all together; you will probably end up changing the tree and background a lot once you have smudged some value where most of the white is. Hope any of that helped!
PEACE
Andrea
Mademoiselle, tu es marveilluese! I'm going to link you now.
I remember this! What happened to that project.... I don't even know. Pretty, pretty tree. Post new stuff, missy! I'll bug you about this in tutorial.
Very nice work !!!!
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