Fanart: Progression

The easter bunny just hopped by, the weather is getting warmer, and midterms are here.

So far, the progression of my digital paintings has been quite like the weather.... that is to say, sluggish.
I've sketched out three of the five paintings, and have begun painting two of them.

Continuing on from the last post, I've chosen my 5 characters:


Pendergast – The Relic Chronicles

Fransisco D’Anconia – Atlas Shrugged

Sookie Stackhouse – True Blood

Wolverine – X-Men

Harry Potter – Harry Potter

I chose these characters based upon two simple things. One, I took into consideration each individual's favorite characters out of the ones they gave me. Second, I simply chose the characters that interested me the most, because I will be the one spending so much time paining them, and I do enjoy having the motivation to paint characters I'm interested in as well.

Here's the progress so far:

Fransisco D'Anconia

Harry Potter

Harry Potter detail

Another Harry Potter

The second Harry Potter piece was created because I had two individuals who thought of Harry as one of their favorite characters. I thought it may be interesting to explore the various projections of their identities. However, I've decided not to pursue that any longer because I'm not satisfied with the direction one of the pictures is going. 

As always, let me know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions! Stay tuned for the next update of the project.

World of Fanart: Interarts Media Project

I've narrowed my focus from knowing that I'll be using Adobe Photoshop to create digital paintings, to using the term to create five digital paintings of "fanart".

Fanart, or fan art, is: "artwork that is based on a character, costume, item, or story that was created by someone other than the artist. The term, while it can apply to art done by fans of characters from books, is usually used to refer to art derived from visual media such as comics, movies or video games. In addition to traditional paintings and drawings, fan artists may also create web banners, avatars, or web-based animations, as well as photo collages, posters, and artistic representation of movie/show/book quotes".

These paintings will be developed based upon the favorite characters of five different people. Accompanying these paintings will be a research paper exploring the world of fanart, and the idea that people use fanart as a projection of their identity. My main purpose of this project is to paint favorite characters for five different people, and explore how these characters serve as projections of identity for them. 

As far as esthetics, the formats for all five paintings will be the same, all will end up looking something like this:

Where the "default picture" is will actually be a photograph of the person. I will keep this basic format, but will "jazz" it up with photoshop, maybe using a more graphic or comic book style to emphasize the world of fanart.

Also, I'm still toying with the idea that each painting will have a different artistic "style", as I don't want to limit myself, and I think the varying styles can reflect the varying ideas of identity.


Here are the five people and their corresponding three characters (of which I will choose one final character):

ANDREA	·      PENDERGAST, Relic Chronicles ·      TEMPERANCE BRENNAN, Bones ·      DR. DOOFENSHMIRTZ, Phineas & Ferb
SIMON	·      JOHN GALT, Atlas Shrugged ·      WILLY WONKA, Willy Wonka ·      MAD HATTER, Alice in Wonderland
BRENDA	·      SOOKIE STACKHOUSE, True Blood ·      HARRY POTTER, Harry Potter ·      ELIZABETH, Pride and Prejudice
CAROLYN	·      WOLVERINE, X-men ·      BATMAN, Batman ·      WILLY, Death of a Salesman
ALAINA	·      THE BRIDE, Kill Bill ·      ANY CHARACTER, Lord of the Rings ·      HARRY POTTER, Harry Potter

For the next post, I will share some preproduction/concept art and sketches!