An Artist's Escape
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An updated version of my previous illustration of the Hindu water god Varuna. Last minute, I found out I needed to submit something for my school’s senior show. This is my professor’s favorite piece from my series, so she suggested I enter it. Of course, she also suggested I make a few changes; namely, she wanted his hands to have fingers and some of the pieces to be defined by shadow better. It took a lot more work than I was expecting, but I’m happy with it.
You can see the previous version (and two of the other deities in the series) here
Plus one more deity here
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AHAHA, I FINISHED IT!
This is the Baltic goddess of the water, Ved-Ava. Out of all the water deities I have researched so far, she is the only one who is said to resemble a mermaid. Which surprises me.
I secretly just wanted to draw a bunch of merpeople for this project WHYI had a hard time finding information about her, but from what I found, she is not exactly a nice lady. Fisherman sacrifice the first of their catch to her, and she is known to be kind of a siren, using music to lure fishermen to their DEATH. Seeing her is a bad omen, and usually means you or someone else on the boat is going to drown.
There aren’t a lot of symbols associated with her, so it was pointed out at my critique that you really can’t tell she is anything other than a typical mermaid. I also had a hard time making the sailor look hypnotized in the papercraft style.
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Ved-ava, as part of my water deity series. WIP right now, I have a critique on this in 4 hours BUT I CAN’T BRING MYSELF TO FINISH IT ARGH
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For my final project for my Advanced Drawing class, I took a previous assignment (which you can find here) and animated it. It is the story of how a tightrope walker goes around the circus asking if anyone has seen her missing parasol.
Unfortunately, I created each image into it’s own animation, which has caused some issues trying to combine it into one. It was also my first time using photoshop to animate, and I honestly had no clue what I was doing. So a lot of the timing needs to be tweaked.
I’m thinking this might work better as 10 seperate GIFs.
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My 3 digital paper craft illustrations done for my advanced electronic art class. The water deities Chalchiuhtlicue, Poseidon, and Varuna.
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Illustration project for my advanced drawing class. We needed to create a minimum 10 page “story” of some sort, whether personal, fictional, or political. The trick was that it needed to be done completely with silhouettes and no words.
(also there is one extra panel before the last one, but tumblr only allows 10 photos in a set soooooooo…it wasn’t an important panel)
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Sometimes life makes me really sad and I cry.
Sometimes I draw crying fairies because I am sad.
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One of the undetermined number of illustrations I am doing for my advanced electronic arts “water” project. I am doing a series of illustrations depicting water gods and goddesses.
This is Chalchiuhtlicue, the Aztec goddess of water. Her name means “she of the jade skirt”. She is often depicted with rivers, a cacti with pears (representing the hearts sacrificed to her), and a cross representing the 4 winds of the world.One legend says that she was unhappy with the people of the world, so she created a giant flood. She allowed people who were in her favor to cross a bridge she made into heaven, but she changed the rest of the world into fish.
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Joan Watson has the patience of a saint.
And the fashion sense of a true New Yorker.
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WIP
