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As part of building out the world of the Moon Wytch I’ve been designing some additional scenes of the garden and also the world beyond. My design for a view of the garden that includes the Glasswing Luna Moths is set up form a vantage point outside looking in through an arched passageway. The thumb is rough, as usual, so the first thing I have done is designed the archway. I pushed together crescent moon shapes and played with the silhouette until I had a mixture of pointy, horn-like spikes and coiled snakes. I am using snakes as characters and motifs in this story-world. Motif as part of prop designs and characters as part of the spiritual and historical bones of this society. The spiral wrapping shape of the snakes reminded me of some rococo Italian columns that had similar spirals. For this design I focused on the shapes and textures that make up this archway in a theoretical sense- for the painting I have designed in the thumbnail I am imagining that this archway is very old. So there will be some cracks or crumbling of the stone apparent as well as moss and some weathering discoloration. Those will come later in the final painting. This was originally sculpted a few generations back, so the snakes and the messenger role that they must have been playing in the culture at that time could have been more common or apparent in the past, and now it is something that is seen as a relic or only to those who are sensitive to it and are looking out for them. Story specifics don’t really exist at this point, I’m looking to put ideas together that create new thoughts and directions for story.
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AuthorI'd like to share my process including research, designing an image, painting studies, and final painting techniques using both traditional media and digital tools. I am an artist and illustrator with diverse interests including concept art and children's illustration. Archives
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