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| This is the original piece that I made digitally fro sketches, I did not like how it looked because I thought it looked too clean and empty. Also, I hated the horn. I could not get it right, no matter what I did to it it seemed to look wonkey and wrong. |
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| Here is the piece so far, I fixed the horn issue by using the old outline as a starting off point and created a grooved and textured horn instead of a clean straight one. I decided to do this because I wanted it to look more natural and suit the wrinkled face. I really like the outcome of the horn and I am happy that I changed it. I also changed the teeth very slightly, I moved some around and added in some more rows. I have some issues with this piece, I feel like I messed up the eyes a bit due to a wobbly line my hand decided to create, but I am not fearful, I think this will be easy to correct in the next stage and as I go along. My next step is to add in the detail and texture using a 0.05 fineliner pen. |
Outline done! Now on to the fineliner. I am going to do the outline in 0.3 fineliner and add the detail with a 0.05. I prefer to use smaller pens because it gives a scratchy appearance and messy effect, and I want this sort of appearance as the man is in distress when he see's the Dagon.
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| "Hot Top" I love this piece! he has used brilliant contrast in the colours using greys, browns and blacks in the majority of the piece and a gold and orange selection for the head of the creature. I love the effect this gives, as the bright colour contrasts so greatly from the dirty browns, this pulls the eye towards these bright colours that look as if they really glow and emit heat. |
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| ''Rotted Zombie'' Once again Jared has picked colour and tones that compliment greatly and show the audience the dirt, blood and rotting flesh as if it were really there. I love the effect of the saliva dripping from the part of the jaw that is left in the zombies face, it reflects light and pulls the eye down the piece from the striking eye (even though it looks away it is very intense) down to the bloody chest. |
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| "Lovecraft Syndrome" This piece relates to the work I am doing as he has based it off Lovecraft's works. I like the flow of the piece, as the tentacles wrap up and around the female looking face and up in to the air where the eye is looking. |
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| Final Dagon face. |
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| Here is a piece of my sketchbook where I started to jot down ideas. |
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| Angry boy. |
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| Pen sketch (I really like this one to work from) |
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| Here is my final character design, I need this to keep refering back to so that I get his proportions right in my work. |
I know, it seems like a strange thing to look at. But I thought, as the dagon is an aquatic species I thought I may have to look at mouths of other species similar, even as sightly similar as a fish.
I chose to look at trout and pike as these have large opened mouths.
I have found some difficulty when sketching the Dagons mouth before hand, I found it hard creating a wide open mouth that would look like it could match up when closed. Looking at these shows me ways of drawing the jaw in such a way that it would work and how the teeth would come out of the mouth.
As I am drawing the dagon creature in attack mode I thought the best place for research would be to look at animals in defence and attack mode. I want the Dagon to have a very natural and raw emotion in his face.
When looking at these animals I can see a few common characteristics in all the animals. They all have wide mouths baring sharp teeth and the lips curled up and back in to a powerful snarl. They're eyes seem to slant to crease up from the muscles and skin pulling away from the mouth.
Heironymus Bosch
Heironymus Bosch was born and lived in Hertogenboscha, a city in the Duchy of Braban, he lived here for all of his life from his birth in approximately 1450 to his death on August 9th 1516. The date of his actual birth was never known for sure, but was estimated by a portrait he created just before his death. The picture to the left is the piece that was used to predict his birth, the portrait shows a man in his late 60’s and is suspected to be a self-portrait. Heironymus was born Jheronimus or Jeroen Anthonissen Van Aken and signed many of his paintings by Jeheronimus Bosch. Heironymus’s grandfather, Jan Van Aken was also a painter who was also born and lived in the Duchy of Braban.
Heironymus Bosch is mainly famous for his triptychs, the most famous is the piece The Garden of Earthly Delights, the original title for this piece did not survive and it was renamed. The piece (below) shows three panels, the first two lovely green and blue colours with pink and cream tones, creating a light and happy atmosphere. These two panels show happy delights and spoils of the earth and humans joyfully enjoying their lives. But the third panel is dark, black and brown colours are used to create a heavy and dark atmosphere. For this third panel depicts Hell and all the horrific goings on believed to be in hell. Heironymus has an amazing imagination and has created terrifying yet interesting creatures, half-human half-animal, performing acts of torture on the humans that gave in to temptation in their lives. The first two panels contrast greatly when compared to the third panel, as the first two are bright and joyous but the third is so dark, sinister and suffocating. This piece has attracted so much attention over the years and it is clear to see why, the piece is so full of interesting elements and features. This piece was created using grisaille, a technique where the painting is created in monochrome, then he has layered is with colour, Heironymus’s colour palette is well chosen and placed, he used certain colours and tones to express the atmospheres and emotions he wanted to provoke in the on lookers mind. For example, pale and light for happy and peaceful atmosphere and dark colours and tones for the more sisinter, scary atmosphere.
Less than 25 paintings remain that can be traced back to Heironymus as he seemed to not sign a lot of his work, but signing your work was not commonly seen back then but he did it on quite a few of his pieces, he sometimes signed his work with the name he was given at birth, Jheronimus Bosch. Even though he signed a lot of his work he never dated it so it is very hard to place his work in to a time line.
The Prado Museum in Madrid own 5 of Heironymus’s pieces of artwork, they were collected by them after Philip II of Spain had acquired them in the late 16th century. The museum now owns The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Adoration of Magi, The Seven Deadly Sins of the Four Last Things, The Stone Operation and The Haywain Triptych. The piece The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things. I love the layout of this piece, in the middle of the piece is a large circle with imagery traveling around it and it is surrounded by four smaller circles with one piece in each. The floating scrolls above and below the center circle creates an elegant and holy.
Below is the piece called The Stone Operation, the writing around the piece says “Master, cut away the stone, my name is Lubbert Das”
In the piece a doctor is using a technique called trepanning, this is where a hole will be cut in to the man’s skull. Their have been many interpretations of this piece. Yet, so many bizarre happenings are going on it is hard to decipher the real meaning. In my opinion, I see a mad doctor trying to perform an operation to help the man, yet this will be fruitless. The picture shows me that the procedure is being done with massive lack of care of knowledge. The woman with the book on her head shows me more strange elements to which are very hard to understand. But all together I love this piece, the bizarre act painted in a neat circle surrounded by amazing gothic writing has an altogether amazing outcome.
As in one of my pieces I want to draw the man surrounded by the black wasteland, I have been researching other pictures of artists impressions of wastelands. I have found all pf these images on google from various artists and photographers.
