Originally I had planned some cute silly cartoony corgi in a blocky style.
However I have been trying to be more studious with my drawings and getting out of my comfort zone hoping to grow some. I love how my backgrounds in gouache came out a few months ago so I said "Ok, gouache, and a little more realistic than usual. Ruh roh, drawing people."
So as I was rolling this around in my head of what to do, things in life took a turn to crummy (boo to that!). I spent a lot of time meditating and reflecting on issues and I guess "tackling" this mess of negative energy. One current life negative thing in particular I always imagine as Sammael from Hellboy, specifically the tentacle that planted the demon eggs into Hellboy's arm. I won't get into that now...
But with the imagery of demons and tentacles and inner battle I started to imagine this girl, naked and shaking, throwing up octopi tentacles and crying ink. I kept that image and pushed it further, turning the idea of vomiting actual tentacles, to purging this negative entity which has taken over. Thus this spirit animal is the invading force.
I have to admit doing this is turning out to be it's own sort of therapeutic task. While drawing and painting has always been therapeutic to me, actually facing this issue through my art is very nice and helpful.
However I did notice a similarity to the work of Michael Bowels (http://www.msbphotography.net/) after taking the progress photo and felt kinda bad. I in no way meant to cramp his style by proxy, so I want to give him a shout out for his awesome work.
And now, I'm going on lunch!
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