The Steps
Techniques
“Where the sun never sets, the azure sky is never swallowed by the night. Everyone is different. However, it sometimes dries up there and is overshadowed by eclipses. (A Hiding Of The Joyous Period From An Unexpected Experience, Pg.84-85)”
“Besides, the waterfall rushed down through the steep rock; at first glance, it was a stream of thousands of silver yarns. When the waterfall poured into the pool, small waves flew in the midair, filling the air and turning into a water mist. The roses by the brook were blooming, and the fragrance was overflowing, attracting butterflies and bees to dance. On the stone cliff in the distance, a peach tree thrived. Clusters of beautiful and pure petals fluttered in the wind. The sky was an inadvertently overturned paint bottle, smudged and shaded with strands of color, as beautiful as Monet's paintings. (A Hiding Of The Joyous Period From An Unexpected Experience, Pg.117-118)”
The semi-finished product on January 8th.
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The finished product.
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I submitted a work on January 8, 2022, and once marked it as complete. But obviously, I was not satisfied with the work at the time. So after that I spent dozens of hours to improve it. In the whole painting, I used 33 layers.
- For the sky and the clouds, they contain a lot of color, which creates a very dreaming feeling. Besides, the clouds in the painting were shaded, and the dark areas were purple instead of gray to give people a brighter feeling. In the part of the sun, I put a lot of haloes on the side to make the sun look brighter and
- On the painting of the rocks, at first, there are a lot of black lines in the shadow of the rocks. However, this makes the rocks look like the rocks in the anime. The whole painting is kind of dreamy, therefore, I finally removed the black line which changed the texture of the rocks. At last, the picture looks more harmonious on the one hand. It makes the rocks look more real on the other hand.
- To make the water look dreamier, I added a lot of lines one by one. In addition, the hemline and hair are also traced repeatedly with a very thin pen. The roses in the painting are in different colors and shapes, and each rose and petal in the picture uses the technique of gradient.
- However, there is something special about the roses in this picture. There is a big difference between the rose near the river and the rose near the girl. Due to the painting being created to express a dreamy feeling, there are no obvious lines in the whole painting. Instead, the roses around the girl have a very clear outline. The reason is that these roses are slightly distant, they should look small and unclear in reality, thus only these roses were outlined in the painting.
- In the painting, the rose, the rock, and the girl's skirt are all darker on the right and lighter on the left because the sunlight comes from the left. In addition, the lower reaches of the river are smeared with a white air gun brush, making the white area larger and more real.
- In the painting, the river and the girl's skirt are drawn by many extremely thin lines because I want to paint the texture of chiffon. In addition, in the process of flowing, there exist water lines in the river.
- The peach tree was painted using the stipple. It is dotted with a variety of pink dots to create a hazy, dreamy feeling.