I am well practiced in painting and drawing, although painting for me is my specialty. Richard has given me some great pointer in terms of artists, direction and ideas with painting and I've seen my work develop further this year. With so many ideas in my head, I've decided my FMP will be on a new set of characters whom I have not worked on before. My FMP will be a large scale painting on either Canvas or Board. It may or may not be a mixed media piece or have collage encorporated into it, and I'm not sure on whether it will be oil paint or acrylic paint.
My initial thoughts are to produce work on at least two of these characters:
Green Arrow, Dr. Doom, Silver Surfer or Gambit.
Green Arrow:
My thought of using Green Arrow as a character to work from came as I caught the ending of an Errol Flynn Robin Hood film, which encouraged me to produce a piece on one of my favorite characters.
For Green Arrow I would research into Archery poses and the use of it in fine art, I would draw costume illustration from real life sources and variations on Robin Hood (as well as the Green Arrow character of course), I would look into backgrounds based on both woodlands and cityscapes to parallel his origin story of being stranded on an island and prior to painting the piece I would photograph my model posing as the character in a suitable environment all based on my research.
The end piece I have in mind at the moment would be something like Green Arrow aiming his bow in a woodland area, either from side on, looking down or offset to the center. After further consideration of the character, I thought of maybe looking into telling a narrative with the images, where using the John Stazaker effect I could portray a sense of past and present.
Dr. Doom:
My thoughts behind doing a piece based on Dr. Doom came from a few sources of inspiration. I've often heard 9/11 and other atrocious acts of terror compared to that of supervillains from comic books, so my thoughts were to produce a piece relevant to this. My initial thoughts, were that of a painting of Dr. Doom on a collaged surface of evil events in the world (terrorism, war, dictatorship). My work that would go into this piece would include:
Looking into mask designs (tribal, kabuki, ancient)
Making masks of my own
Photographing a model posing as Doom
Collecting information and images of War, Dictatorship and acts of Terror
Producing a final outcome
My initial thought is to paint a portrait of Dr. Doom sat on a throne perhaps with elements of my research collaged showing through, this will develop as I go on through this route of course as I don't want to create a piece that glorifies terrorism in any way, but instead attributes the effect of these images to the character.
Silver Surfer:
This is a character whom I planned to produce work on before FMP but I continued my other characters instead. His project would focus on loneliness, science fiction and mythology paintings.
Firstly, I don't think this will be a character I will work from because the godlike imagery ties closely to what another student is doing for her project looking at muscles and anatomy, so for originality sake I'm unlikely to produce work on this character.
If I were to paint Silver Surfer however, my work would consist of researching paintings of loneliness, science fiction and paintings of Greek gods and other mythology. I would then get some studio photographs of my art model, experimenting with ways to make the model appear chromatic.
For a final piece I would go along the lines of painting the image I had made looking into empty spaces and relating to a theme of loneliness from my research.
Final idea - Gambit:
After the success of my Constantine work, I think I could produce a good similar style painting of X-Men Character Gambit in the art style of Fabian Perez. I'm less enthusiastic about this idea because it's similar to my first Constantine paintings and as of this moment, he's not a character who I'm interested in. If I were to go down this route however, I would research further into Fabian Perez's work and similar artists who produce cinema noir and poker theme paintings. My idea for a final piece would be the character in costume playing poker in a dark room with subtle hints of his powers.
Each of these pieces all has a different set of work to go into them but they'll all follow the same structure, just like my other work. I'll start with research, looking into the themes of whichever characters I choose to work on. I'll strip away everything about the characters so that I'm left with the essentials and then I'll begin to plan out composition. I will scout locations and shoot backgrounds for the characters that will be appropriate and personal in some way and I will also photograph my models acting as the character, before creating a photoshopped image of the two combined. Lastly I will stretch up a canvas or prime a board and paint my composition onto the surface. In the back of my mind I hope to produce 2 pieces for both Dr. Doom and Green Arrow, but I'm only aiming for one each at the moment so long as my research gives me the right inspiration.
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