Hi people. In CyberARTS we did a dual portrait in any medium of two opposite or conflicting personality traits by either using symbolism in objects of imagery etc without splitting the page in half somehow. We also had to unify the subject matter in someway and relate the image back to our own personality.
Let's start this off with the imagery, what we're seeing on page. In my piece in the sky, you can see yellow, cartoonish looking clouds and a bright sun with rays stretching across the sky...then on the ground you have grey zombies crawling themselves out of their graves. Why did I choose this kind of imagery? Because they represent parts of me that are present in my life. The sky represents the happy, pleasant personality that is sometimes typical of me, meanwhile the grey ground with the zombies emerging from their graves, makes that statement that within reason, I can't change what I think or where my mind happens to wander. When I daydream, I usually go into my own fantasy world which,incidentally is home to zombies, and vampires and so on. I also wanted to show duality in the colours I used as well. The bright yellow vs the light and dark grey. I also put the ground off kilter because I needed a way to define the ground from the sky and give the zombies more space without just spiting the page down the middle. Splitting it this way gave the portrait a diagonal composition, which seemed far more dynamic than the less favorable alternative.
The materials I used to make this were Yellow, Yellow shade, and two different cool grey Copic markers and a water colour sheet.
Now for the age old tradition of sharing cool stuff. Here is an amv I found a month ago. See you next time :)
