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False Knees
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Nightcrow
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Digital painting is a painting method in the new era, which is widely used by modern young people and uses it to create their own characters. There are sometimes skeptics who say that digital painting is not true art, but the time and effort that the painter puts into the creation process disproves their point of view. Their affection for their works, love or hate, is without exception true. This is the theme I chose for my Term Project.

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I'm currently planning to use pixel art as a tool to draw one or more pictures, but I also have some photographic ideas that may not be adopted. The goal of the entire work is currently defined as:

1. Highlight the physical and unbreakable connection between the world inside the painting and the outside world (whether it is digital painting or other artistic media)

2. Highlight the various emotions that the author (myself, or the artist in the painting) has about their work (e.g. love or hate)

I decided to compare the beginning of a project to its completion as a dance, and the author and the project are the two sides of this dance. I will create several works based on Dance Etiquette references.

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Drafts / Concept Arts

A thank you after the Dance

"At the end of the dance, ALWAYS say THANK YOU to your partner."

Dance with new Friends

"Naturally, some people will prefer certain dance partners to others, but this should not prevent them from accepting an offer to dance from a new person."

An oil painter has fun trying out origami

The painting is finished, the dance is over, and the two dancers thank each other for dancing with them.

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When are you most afraid of riding a roller coaster? While waiting in line. When the roller coaster climbs, you wait for the feeling of the impending fall.

My name is Sarah Liu. One of the things I've discovered about my personal development path, and my way of drawing, is to live with the situation. One time someone asks me: "Do you think people should have a life career plan?" My answer was "Yes, and take one step at a time." Of course, this "Take one step at a time" is not aimless, not a literal meaning of going first One step, and then seeing how to go next.

I have a great example from my aunt to explain what this means. Imagine you now have an idea: you want to draw a red elephant on a wall. Then you just grab a paintbrush and get up and immediately start drawing on the wall, but as you paint, on the third stroke you realize, "Hey, that's not like an elephant, it's more like a whale! "So you throw away the red pen, pick up the blue pen, and start drawing a whale. You drew a few more strokes, then looked at it in the distance, and thought: "Why does it look like a sea wave!?" So you picked up a bucket of blue paint, splashed it on the wall, and added a few touch-ups after. Your wall where you intended to paint a red elephant becomes a sea of deep blue.

At this time, "you who looked at the deep blue sea" and "you who wanted to draw an elephant on the wall" are no longer the same person. When you get to the third stroke and you find that the elephant turns into a whale, that'll take you from there.

When you were thinking about how to draw an elephant, you probably never imagined that you would end up with a whale. Because you started by drawing an elephant, and you didn’t realize that you were drawing like a whale until you reached the third step, not to mention you walked a few more steps before realizing that you were drawing like a sea wave.

It’s also possible that you wanted to paint a red elephant on the wall, but you realized you didn’t have red paint, so you went to buy red paint. On the way, you suddenly had an idea of wanting to plant lemon trees, and then you didn’t buy paint but saplings, and then you started digging and left the wall. This is all after you have the idea of "I want to draw a red elephant on this wall".

My aunt told me the point is that you have to have an idea first, and then implement it, don't hesitate or think "Elephant is so difficult to draw." "I don't have money to buy red paint." "is it worth painting it?" " My peers have travelled the world to see wild elephants and I’m still painting elephants here.”All the excessive peer comparisons, realistic considerations, and fear of one's own abilities are unnecessary.

When are you most afraid of riding a roller coaster? While waiting in line. When the roller coaster climbs, you wait for the feeling of the impending fall. Every second after the fall is fun and excitement. Even if you can see the roller coaster track, predict which way it's going to go. However, maybe you have to try it once to know if you really like it, and where is the most exciting part.

Serendipity, the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

Isn't the birth of life also a kind of Serendipity? The birth of life on earth and the derivation of human beings is a series of accidental events. Life is meaningless, but we give meaning through our thoughts and actions. Opportunity is very random, and it is not necessarily proportional to whether people work hard or not. Success and wishful thinking are often "accidental" events, so what we have to do is to grasp the "certainty" in these things. In the previous example, the story begins with "this wall is close to me", and "I have a red paint pen with me", so you pick up the pen and start drawing, which is a certainty. As for whether you draw out an elephant or not, why not be a little casual about the result or undecided steps?

When I was still in kindergarten and fell in love with handicrafts, I won’t think that I will draw characters with pencils in elementary school, won’t think that I will give up drawing for my grades in junior high school, won’t think that I will transfer to Canada in high school and pick back up my art creation and start oil painting, won’t think that I will go in I'd get into an art university, won’t think that I will be here to give an awkward artist talk.

One time someone asks me: "Do you think people should have a life career plan?" My answer was "Yes, and take one step at a time."

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One of my favorite collage

Painted / splashed a puddle of rainbow

Turned it upside down and trying to add a main focus

Printed a praying mantis and pasted it as the new main focus

Touch up details and finished

Artist Talk Example

Work in progress

References

References

Work in progress

Different lighting attempts

Close ups

Close ups

Dark, Darker, Yet Darker