Woman: scribble to inspiration...

Woman,  Anzel Rossouw, 2013

This has been one of my very first digital art pieces which was created in 2013. I've mostly created traditional art through the years, so creating digital art was a new experience for me. Once I got started in Photoshop I was hooked. The idea of this artwork is to create inspiration through the use of imagination. To show people that by using your imagination you are able to create something which is inspirational.

Initial Sketch

This 2D digital art piece started out as a little scribble on a scrap piece of paper, which I have included on the left. So I decided to take this further, redrew the scribble using Adobe Photoshop and added some color. So at this point I only had some lines and some color swatches on a canvas, but this was enough to get me started. I looked at some female human anatomy in order to get the proportions of the body correct. The way in which the head is tilted up has created quite a challenge in getting the face proportions correct.

After I had the basic structure of the body correct, I started looking at the dress. So once I've started drawing the dress, it didn't feel like the right fit. I started looking at various dress designs and I then decided upon a frilly dress to bring across her personality as well as creating a challenge. I started researching different types of frills and the way in which the fabric would act when interacting with the other segments of the dress. Looking at the basic shape of her hair I had to decide how thick her hair would be, the quantity as well how long it would be. After I have determined this, I looked at how her hair would act blowing up.

After getting the basics right I started looking at the various color schemes that I would be using. I wanted to bring across a soft mood so I used cold colors that was in the range of a purple color scheme. I decided to put quite a bit of attention on the light coming into the image, as I wanted to put across the message of how there is always light within the darkness. The light is also representing the imagination as well as inspiration; where as the darkness represent how life would be dark and sad without imagination. After finishing this artwork I decided to add an inspirational quote that would make more of an impression and that would bring across some inspiration to many artists. As the whole idea of this artwork was to create inspiration through using imagination I wanted to use a quote that was about imagination. So I decided upon the very well known quote "Imagination is more important than Knowledge", by Albert Einstein. In this artwork the knowledge spoken about in the quote, is almost representing the darkness and how inspiration is more important like the light within the artwork.

I think it turned out pretty good for a scribble, especially because it's a little bit different to my usual style of artworks. I really enjoyed creating this artwork and I look forward to posting some of my new artworks.