Coraline Studies - Inspiration For More Narrative In My Work

Lately I've noticed that my artworks lack narrative. I realised this after looking at Sergey Kolesov's work. His concepts feel like there is a story happening with people and things interacting in interesting compositions.

To work on this, I've been studying screen caps of Coraline where there are many elements making up a scene such as composition, lighting, gesture, interacting figures, textures - so many great things. Coraline used traditional methods to make the film so I feel like its a good idea to copy these instead of films using CGI. Firstly the models exist in reality and therefore obey the laws of physics in terms of lighting and form. CGI does damn well at replicating this but doesn't have to obey the laws, but is created to appear like it is. Sure Coraline would have used a lot of digital touch ups on colours and lighting but it still had to start in the physical world.

References -

http://disneyscreencaps.com/coraline-2009/1/#/

Sergey Kolesov

http://vimeo.com/channels/peleng
http://www.inprnt.com/search/?q=Sergey+Kolesov
http://pelengart.blogspot.com.au/

Exposing my colour fraudulance

Way too much red and yellow. GAH!

This was painted with afternoon ambient light so I had to be quick. Was about 50 mins.

Resident Evil Remake BKG

I found the backgrounds in this game very inspiring because of their sombre tone. Damn awesome game as well.

Gouache on 300gsm hot pressed paper.

Rody

Loved the atmospheric perspective dust in this one separating the Rody and the clown behind him. Such a great shot so I had to paint it as soon as I could.

Rosen

Lighting scheme was inspired by a scene out of Coraline.

Not quite sure where this picture is originally from but I found a powerpoint of National Geographic photos called - Photo Mix 21

Took about 2hrs and 30mins. I wasn't focusing on correct proportions too much but I do feel I get tunnel vision and don't 'stand back' from the painting. I also changed it to CMYK halfway through the darn painting - whoops!

Perdy berd

Life study from a Bird of Fashion slide show. Not quite sure what the primary source of it is but you can find the slide show in the link below. Lots of inspiring beautiful bird pictures.

2 hours

http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/631307/Birds%27-high-fashion-show