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First picture is the outline.
Second is the rough of digital painting.
Third is the final of the digital painting.
Fourth is the start of a styled/graphic portrait
Fifth is pretty much experimenting with brush and what not.
Firstly, I decided a digital piece would be ideal as I'm trying to pick up on my strengths this term, rather than experimenting with stuff that I'm terrible with in hope of reaching a somewhat satisfactory level.
So it started when I read the little white lies brief. I could select 1 film out of 5 choices, and I chose the black swan.
Watched the film.
Took inspiration and obvious symbols noted.
Blah blah.
So I chose a shot from the film of natalie portman dancing as the white swan turning into the black swan, where by her prince has chosen the wrong princess and shes all '' Oh nooo! ''.
Anyway in the shot she looks like shes running away, with a scared/shocked expression.
The reason I took such a big jump from the smooth digital painting to the gritty one is simply because the first one is not of a high standard, and it didn't really go down well.
After talking for awhile with Illustrator Sleepy Wolf AKA John Chan, http://www.facebook.com/thesleepywolf
He highlighted the reasons that it was bad etc and showed me a few tips on layering and playing with opacity in shadows etc.
Anyway, yeah, my new soluton is the crazy gritty one, having played with effective brushes etc, adding some feathers in to give it that swan feel. I think its a much better solution.
