Thursday, December 15, 2011

Class Artwork: Tribute to a great mind.

In my design class, we were told to do a portrait piece of some one of significance to us for our final project. I would've did my parents but we weren't allowed to do two (No I can't choose one. Both of my parents are awesome) due to the time. So I decided to do one of an individual who has helped inspired me to write stories and do animations, Hayao Miyazaki. Hayao Miyazaki is the man behind some of the best known Ghibli films. He's a director, animator, manga artist, and story writer.

So I have done portrait pieces several times before but this one was very different. How is it different? Well let's take a look.

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This portrait was done with nothing but text! So starting off, I did a quick sketch of the reference photo with a pencil and then I wrote all the titles of Miyzaki's works that I have seen, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service, Ponyo, Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Porco Rosso, and Nausica. To create different darker values I wrote over and over and wrote smaller. To make lighter values I just wrote big. This was my favorite project in design class.

Here are some detail shots.



And here is the photo I used as a reference.

Now my printer decided to screw up the photo and make the shadows much more darker than they should so that's why there is a huge dark shadow on his face and such. 

I used a mechanical pencil and my Sakura pigma micron pen to make this.

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