| Story, Concept Design & Drawing: |
| In the beginning, I wanted to do a portrait of a young girl, with a sort of love story type background, but then I decided to place her into an environment which better fitted her story. Remembering an oil painting by John William Waterhouse, my favourite Master of art, I wished for my own female character to be in such a beautiful picture. I changed the heroine and the environment of Waterhouse’s original painting, and made my character expressive through her body language and her abundant expression. Waterhouse’s landscape also includes depth and feeling through its aesthetic appeal, which is a common characteristic in my own works; harmonising characters within their environments. This is why I selected this painting as a reference for my work. I had to consider that some people would think that I had just simply copied the original picture, and so I decided to add my own elements - I was not attempting an exact pixel for pixel copy of the painting. I changed the lighting, perspective and atmosphere of the original, and I spent around one and a half months working on it, through which time I acquired a lot of knowledge about traditional art, 3D, and 2D techniques. In the beginning, it took me some time to decide which software and techniques I should use to get the effects that I intended to achieve. I tried very hard to consider the difficulties that I would face along the way, such as the water’s wavy surface, the woods in the background, my character’s hair, the lighting, and so on. |
LINK:http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials_3/making_of_lady_shalott/shalott_01.asp
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