Caught in two minds and unfortunately a case of the skills not matching the vision.
I had this idea based on one of my favourite movies, Clash of the Titans ( a Ray Harryhausen effects pic) where Perseus must obtain the head of Medusa to kill the monsterous Kraken. Now Medusa, half woman half snake could turn people to stone with a single glance...neat trick.
So I had this vision of Medusa in a darkened, flaming torch lit tomb surrounded by the frozen statues of the living turned to stone, hence still life. I wanted to make it quite stylized, so i started in Illustrator, then crossed to photoshop and used a filter on a background image to give it the vector look, then i applied the same filter to my vectors.
So it ended up a right mess and not really what i'd envisaged, especially as it turned out that merely having a shadow of Medusa was stronger than actually seing her in the piece.
Definitely one consigned to the "come back and have another go" file. I'll do better next time!!!
2 comments:
I like it, how long do your illustrations take you Austin? Nice composition in there.
On a lighter note, in the gentleman's anguish at seeing medusa, he looks as though he could be playing the most badass air guitar solo imaginable!!
he could be utilising a two-handed tapping technique to bust the shreds
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