fiery dancer

well this is not how it is supposed to look like as i stopped after i reached to step 7. In order to get to the final step it requires me to have additional plugging for my photoshop so i ended up doing this much.Please refer to the link below for more information on how this was done.

  

http://designinstruct.com/digital-art/photo-manipulation/add-brilliant-light-effects-to-your-work-with-photoshop/

surrealism

surreal representation of Mraz's mind xD

Looney Tunes

As a child i never read comic books and rarely watch cartoon for that matter. The only time i watch cartoon is when i spend time with my little cousin brother who enjoys Looney Tunes cartoon series. As much as he enjoys the show I had to admit I find it very amusing. Even today, I still find myself enjoying the Looney Tunes series of characters as they never fail to give me a good laugh. 

Looney Tunes is an animated cartoon series by Warner Bros. The Series features cartoon characters includes Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird and Porky Pig among many other characters and with no surprise they are the most familiar and widely known characters in the history.   

when hope leaves

This is the final sketch of my art work. I know it look different from my initial sketch. I changed it as I was not sure I can get the effect I want with a smaller sun as you have seen before in my previous sketch. Anyways I hope I can paint the image in my head using photoshop x)

first attempt with the brush and going well i guess.

Green shades are chosen for the body to make it look like it's wilting and as for the sea, the waves will be more darker inside when the colouring is done. It shows that rays from the eye has reached the ocean and it's life has been taken over making the ocean darker and polluted.  

this is how it looks now, not what i expected but i hope i get there in time.

In order to have a an angry, dark and demonic sun I played with different shades of colours while decreasing the opacity in different layers and this was the result i was most satisfied with. As for her face this is definitelty not the shade i want to have but it will be a colour that reflects her hair as well as her body.  

I was told that this looks very scary and that is not what I was portraying therefore I had to change the colour once again. For her face, again there are three different layers and each layer has a different colour that has a different opacity to make the colours blend in from layer to layer. 

I am more satisfied with the colouring and it matches the sadness i wanted to portray so there will be no more changes to the colour of the face. However, I am still trying to figure out what i should do with the sun and it's rays. I am still struggling to paint the image in my head. 

Whatever you see towards her eyes is something i wanted to put on her face as if it rooted from the neck infecting the whole face. I I was unable to find an image on internet on such short time and besides I was recommended by my friend I deleted the layer.

Here I have added another layer add more contrast for the rays of the sun.

I have added a black background on top of the sketch to make sure that i have coloured everywhere. While i was at it, I accidentally  ended up colouring the eye black and i like the way it is now. So here is what i submitted to my lecturer as my final art work. 

Artwork Title: When hope leaves

Art Movement: Abstract art

Theme chosen: Global Warming

Ideation and Concept: The mother earth has been possessed by the satan (sun) and it is taking over her life. She is looking at 'YOU' saying that you have failed on me. Hope has been drained from her as she surrenders herself to the satan to be destroyed.

This portrays a very dramatic image of what will happen to the earth due to Global Warming. Earth needs it's people to protect her from being destroyed. 

voice of the youths

This was a picture taken by Mauroof Khaleel aka maapu at Raalhugandu Male' during a peaceful gathering initiated by youths of Maldives voicing out for Democracy rights and pleading for justice on 16th February 2012. 

Youths came together to stand up against the inhumane acts of Police on the people followed by the events that occurred after Maldives first democratic president Mohamed Nasheed was forced to resign on 7th february 2012. What anybody can see from this picture is nothing but unity and the choice of wearing white clearly shows that they come in peace.

picture taken from: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=384625808230229&set=a.384622611563882.105423.100000484401351&type=3&theater

hope

normally i wouldn't go for anything that has a positive meaning or something that 

would elevate positive energy but tonight i am feeling a bit hopeful. I blame the music-John Mayer.His new album is blowing my mind to it's very core and i like it x). 

anyways the images i chose for my mood board are the ones that caught my eye while browsing and the more i look at it the more i like it. I guess tonight i am going to bed feeling a bit hopeful. Highly unlikely of me.  

when hope leaves

i had this idea of a possessed earth by satanic force in which satan is the sun. so i drew the sun with an eye and the long rays of light it emits are the demons fading into the atmosphere reaching to the earth surface. 

but then i had a hard time imagining a possessed earth throughout the weekend. while i was trying effortlessly to come up with something that can depict an earth i came across this song called Hope Leaves which is one of my favorites of Opeth's. to me this song is about coping with a death of a loved one and struggling to nurture what's left of that person - the memories. in the end he give up as there is no hope of this person returning back, so hope leaves. 

i don't know why i decided to write my interpretation of the song, i guess this gives more insight to the art work + how i came up with it. Anyways this song made me think of a girl under the moonlight who is drowning herself into the ocean and i took that idea and implanted it here x). I drew her face as if she is looking towards 'YOU' and saying you have failed on me. Her face is very sad looking + her hope has been drained and she no longer wants to live hence she surrenders herself to the satan to be destroyed.  

hahaha i know! I am laughing at myself too x'D

As for the art movement i am thinking of going for expressionism +  realism + some more.