Original Illustration: Love
Love is one of my newest pieces, with a much more developed art style, at the beginning of last year I started becoming more and more minimalistic and simple, my colors are much more sparingly used and I've started to like space over elements even more. Also I've become better with proportions and grids after studying composition intensively.
Love is about duality, about differnt energies, not neccesarily male and female, but more like contrasting people that somehow get together. The use of pink and blue is not referring to gender in the least, but more with color theory and certain combinations that I have always found Aesthetically beautiful.
The texture on the elements is from a public domain NASA picture of the Moon Enceladus, which has a smooth and marble-like surface that I have always adored and always wanted to work with.
Illustrating for the dreamer, by the dreamer ~ 26 ~
I make digital illustrations on Photoshop and Illustrator, I love everything aesthetic.
♥ Show me love ♥
They say that if to beings were to reach enlightenment together, they could spend eternity together when they past on to the next life. So I heard, pretty deep though.
As you know, I believe in reincarnation, so what if you find a person you keep running into life after life? Can you imagine?
I love your creation, @tsukuyomi. It reminds me the German word Zweisamkeit...also the colour choice is minimal yet so elegant. Thank you!
Oh, even though I studied some german a while back I never knew of that word, what a beautiful word, thank you so much!
You mention you studied composition intensively. What do you consider the best way of learning about composition? Reading books? Looking at other art? Paintings? Photography?
I once read it's a good idea to carefully look at the composition of old(er) paintings. What was your approach?
Well, my approach on this is that composition books are famous and well-regarder for a reason, take for example Josef Muller Brockmann's Grid System, which after reading it, became my most influential book to follow for placement in composition, I strongly think books like those help create a basic yet timeless understanding of composition. That is my preferred source personally. What about you?
Some years ago, I read a couple of books about photography and composition. Introductory books.
Lately, I caught some interest in drawing. And came across a video that advised to play around with composition, easy drawings, changing where to put 'objects'.
Further I read a post about watching old art works. Since centuries of studies on composition preceded those paintings.
If you would only look at photography, it's probably hard to weed the great from the good or average.
Btw, I am nog claiming I am a good photographer or any sort of artist. I do like understanding things, gathering a better feeling, more knowledge ... ;)
This is an interesting read:
http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2013/09/05/17-lessons-walker-evans-has-taught-me-about-street-photography/