Week 13:

Lamb painting is now done!

 

nameless (Watmuff, 2021)

Sheep Looking At Camera, ( kurilovych, 2020)

This image in particular inspired me, there’s something about it’s proportions and the way it’s eyes captivate that I wanted to capture. I made sure the eyes had an almost glassy look and super soft to try and portray it.

I exaggerated things like the eyes to try to push that look of innocence. I added the halo as lambs especially are associated with innocence, purity, and have holy symbolism in quite a few Christian denominations. The desecration of such a symbol is quite grisly and visceral, which is fitting for the state Valerie is in when she paints it.

I have a few ideas for the other paintings. I’d like to look more into paintings referring to death and referencing the topic. Things like memento mori still life paintings might be fitting?

I was also inspired by the paintings from Slow Damage (2021), a visual novel where the protagonist is an artist who paints the darkest desires of a person.

they’re more abstract than I want to go necessarily, but I like the atmosphere and style.

This one especially has a really nice contrast. the mood is communicated through a minimal palette. It’s just very effective, in my opinion.

Clean up on the shot from sc02 is slow, but I’m starting to get used to the vector brushes. Moving forward, I don’t think we’ll use them. They’re unpredictable and not as efficient as the ones from Clip Studio Paint, for example. The line width is dependent on how zoomed into the canvas you are, and whether you can edit it effectively is 50/50. Raster brushes would be a lot faster, I think. This was a good test though!