Today i spoke with andy about the main idea behind my final major project. I've decided to take up the route of photography. The reason due to this is because i feel like photography is a new learning curve i can take and try to expand on.
The theme behind my idea wasn't easy to come across. I thought of multiple themes that i could try to achieve, from macabre, horror, to fantasy or hidden messaging. Although The theme i've chosen is still rough, i've decided to take up the theme of Horror. Although my theme won't be just based on horror itself; i.e gore and blood. It'll be based on mythology and folklore. The reason i decided to go down this theme is because theres so much variety to it, and so much horror to the history of many mythologies and folklores around the world. A few examples of folklore that i'll be using would be: Dopple gangers, shapeshifters etc. As for mythology; Gods, supposed created etc.
While looking for a theme, i also came across many other artists and their work, and how it's possible to expand a theme, for example. I tried to lok at artists who had taken lore into their work, or have had a story behind the piece which explains it.
Ruberman- http://purerube.deviantart.com/
Ruberman is a popular digital artist on deviantart known widely for the series of photography he does. Although he manipulates his images in a way through digitally painting them, his techniques are effective and potentially limitless. A few of his images take up the theme fantasy, however they also link into horror. though he tends to look through popular folklores or urban mythology for his inspiration.
The theme behind my idea wasn't easy to come across. I thought of multiple themes that i could try to achieve, from macabre, horror, to fantasy or hidden messaging. Although The theme i've chosen is still rough, i've decided to take up the theme of Horror. Although my theme won't be just based on horror itself; i.e gore and blood. It'll be based on mythology and folklore. The reason i decided to go down this theme is because theres so much variety to it, and so much horror to the history of many mythologies and folklores around the world. A few examples of folklore that i'll be using would be: Dopple gangers, shapeshifters etc. As for mythology; Gods, supposed created etc.
While looking for a theme, i also came across many other artists and their work, and how it's possible to expand a theme, for example. I tried to lok at artists who had taken lore into their work, or have had a story behind the piece which explains it.
Ruberman- http://purerube.deviantart.com/
Ruberman is a popular digital artist on deviantart known widely for the series of photography he does. Although he manipulates his images in a way through digitally painting them, his techniques are effective and potentially limitless. A few of his images take up the theme fantasy, however they also link into horror. though he tends to look through popular folklores or urban mythology for his inspiration.
Another artist who i came across was an artist who has some horror inspired work is below. Once again, he takes up his style by digitally painting over his stock imagery, he also uses 3d modeling programmes to paint over, which is an interesting way to go about creating your own scenery. This arists name is MichaelO. He is also well known on deviantart.
The reason i've chose MichaelO as one of my main inspirations is not only due to the execution of his pieces, but the simplicity of his backgrounds. His backgrounds are mainly one colour with little cloudy shades of complimentary colours. This will become effective in my photographs as i tend to create darker pieces usually.
The reason i've chose MichaelO as one of my main inspirations is not only due to the execution of his pieces, but the simplicity of his backgrounds. His backgrounds are mainly one colour with little cloudy shades of complimentary colours. This will become effective in my photographs as i tend to create darker pieces usually.
Not only artists can be my inspiration, but other things such as movies and music. One of my main inspirations for the final major projects will be TV series' and films, such as "The almighty johnsons" which is about norse gods that have been reincarnated throughout the years, as the protagonist Axl, learns he is odin. A movie that will be my inspiration will be Pans labrynth, Hellboy, Thor and underworld. The reason i've chose these films is because they have a selection of mythology and folklore in and have some accurate facts. Though i'll also be researching online to confirm the research, i'll be putting them in with my final edited pieces.