Tag: surreal

Lab Rat

I haven’t posted in a while instagram (@chairo_neko) plug ins for life, or here on wordpress. Got a whole lot of stacks to show my rushed progress in my first assignment.

  • instagram
  • altered mice and rats
  • final concept
  • drafting phase

most of my art ideas are mostly spontaneous, and I have no idea what will come on next. if something come up I would put it down. I usually get scared of not getting any more ideas in the future. I would scribble a lot of thumbnails on my sketchbook to get a basic idea from it, then find a shit ton of images online. draw, submit on instagram. Simple process.

This is something I could relate because this is still an experimental phase, or maybe I should’ve waited to go into uni. Take a gap year or something like that. I’ve rushed way too quickly into the arts. The uni I go to doesn’t exactly do fine arts. I’m still exploring.
My goal is to become a fine artist, but something inside me wants to do something else. Since this is a ‘phase’ of art I’m going through I may just do surrealism and psychedelic arts altogether.

Referenced pictures are at the bottom, apologies in advance for the dead rodents.

All in all I’m not being as productive as much I should have 5 weeks prior to all this. Maybe I just have stick up my arse, and shouldn’t be complaining in the first place.

Palm Tree

  • Concept drawing
  • finalised drawing

This is my 3rd project out of 9. From here on I’m most likely to produce vector like images, despite this assessment is extended towards friday. I still appreciate its details in it’s geometrical form. I am still going for surrealism but not in its typical medium of a painting style.
I think it’ll be much more easier to produce art in illustrator rather than photoshop. I am still experimenting, but I find that illustrator is like a simplified version of photoshop.
In my dorm there’s 2 giant palm trees outside my window, and thought of a pun. I thought it would be hilarious to just put a hand and a tree together to make a palm tree. It sounded a lot funnier in my head…

I picked the dark blue
Colour Variations

I played a lot with the colour theory, whether to go with either the top row. The blue and pastel yellow drawing in the middle captured my attention a lot more than the others did.

I used multiple hands to draw on. I wanted to add my own style, so I used low poly shapes; draw by the pen tool. *More references linked at the bottom. I liked the thermal colour palette as it really popped out from the blue; it also had a cool effect on the low poly shapes. I had to draw my own palm trees with custom leaves as there weren’t many good picture I wanted on a palm tree.

  • 1. the background
  • 2. The Blinds
  • 3.The Palm Tree
  • 4.The hands

I’d say the most helpful tools in the process would be:

-pen
-opacity
-layers

I’m starting to understand how these layers work in illustrator, it’s just knowing what part of the picture goes where and to not make sure it won’t overlap each other.

These pictures were all sourced from google images. and it’s original link pinned on pinterest.

Finalised Self Portrait

This is the finalised version of my self portrait.

self-Portrait

This took a lot of trial and error, when using Photoshop. In my future paintings, I would like to add more refined texture especially when rendering fur or the translucency of the water. I tried to reflect light on the mask, but with the set brushes I downloaded; it’s more smoother instead of textured.
There’s a lot of styles that I want to produce. One of them being surrealism. Other styles that I’d also like to try would be minimalism/vectoring. seeing clean lines or a iconagraphic style of a drawing looks quite satisfying. I like to see most of my art with smoother transitions and rendering and not just blocks of colour.
In surrealism, it captures another dimension of reality and fantasy.

Through out the whole drawing process I used are found on here
http://digitalbrushes.tumblr.com/.
It’s a website that give away free brush sets, and I think they’re good for most beginners. Depending on the brush set used.


There is some refinement, I’d say to a degree. Right is before and the left is after.
Even with the refined lips, there’s something on the right that makes it look more unique. Even thought the lips are flat, it has this texture that makes it stand out from the smooth skin.


This is the overall images I used as reference, more picture are linked to my previous

Water those! Hair update

A lot but surely, I am getting use to Photoshop. I’ve been playing with it’s opacity and I think it’s a good way to get a smoother gradient between 2 colours.

The seafoam is a bit thicker than I would like it to be.

After thinning out the foam it’s seams more cleaner.yet the colour of the ocean lacks light and transparency.

I like the overall process of digital painting. I want to improve on the opacity of the water. By adding green hues, it allows the illusion if transparency. In this case it looks more opaque than it was before hand. It has added highlights, but I’m afraid adding too much light and darkness would ruin my progress.

Thank goodness for ctrl + z. I’ll never understand I didn’t live without it. I’ve started to create more layers on the painting. So far so good. I just have to remember to change the layers to the right one. There’s alot to uncover about adobe. I’m looking forward to see a small boost in following after posting more digital pics on instagram hahaha.

Update self portrait

This is a coloured version of the drawing

This is a slow process of how I would use photoshop. It looks better without the outlines as shown in the previous 2 images. As of now, it is a colour foundation of the entire piece. Depending on how fast I finish, I’d like to actually post before this whole thing is due…
After this illustration, I’ll be focusing moreover on the exaggeration of the human body; such as the number of limbs or facial features. other future digital drawings would also include random objects or reflect a certain past event. (formed in a dream-like perspective)
This style I have developed so far in digital is more cartoony rather than a more realistic approach I had in mind. I think further experimentation and tutorials will further help my studies. I will soon post this on Instagram once this image has been more refined to my liking.

Images for further references.
My illustrations overall look quite fundamental, but with further practice and consistent uploads I might be able to create a following on instagram. This also reflects on tradtional art as well.