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"Entangled" – Watercolorhiii AAAAAA I'm so excited to share this piece to u all! it's quite personal so I'll write a whole explanation (which u can skip over if u came for the critique ^^). this is the first complete piece I did after my worst and longest art block so I felt really accomplished with this piece :,) other than the very bright blue (which i dont really like hhh) I'm happy with how this turned out overall ! although I don't think I was able to translate my idea too well, I hope u like this one! lmk what u think ^^
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For critique:
okii for giving critique, I need some advice on the background? what would have been a good background for this other than what I have now? and also for the body proportions, It looks a bit off to me but i can't pin point what's wrong ;-; aaand lastly any critique on this is very welcome! if you're fine with reading long stuff I also would love critique about how I translated my idea into this piece! (read below)
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NOW EXPLANATION WHAT THIS PIECE MEANS TO ME :D (this might be a bit long oops)
during october last year I fell into art block and I thought it wouldn't be so bad like my other art blocks where I could get out of it in a week or so. but oH BOY I was WRONG. it got worse and worse, I ended up losing motivation in doing anything at all, and fell into bad habits, my anxiety worsened, became pessimistic when I was an optimist my whole life. at that point I didn't think it was just an art block anymore. it felt like my mind was entangled in incomprehensible knots of endless negative thoughts squeezing the life out of me – as cliche as that sounds.
which! explains the string/rope/chord(?) wrapping around the person on this painting! I also made her look like she's floating to give the feeling of "aimless wandering" because that's basically what I felt during those months. I didn't mean to make the background look like water, but ig making her look submerged underwater also works :0 maybe.
funfact: the initial idea that made me want to start this painting was: I remember late at night staring at the street lights without my glasses. I have horrible eyesight btw
so the blobs of light made an interesting shape when it glowed. when I squinted my eyes, it formed strikes of vertical lights stretching from the blob of streetlight. I thought that was really cool so I wanted to incorporate that into a painting. and ta-da! I added it on the glowing butterflies on the bottom right of this piece! (not the most noticable but it's there hehehe)
if I made this painting DURING those difficult months, I probably would've used a different color palette, perhaps more muted darker tones to match what I felt. but I planned out this piece with my POV of getting out of the miserable times. my pov NOW, is the reason it looks the way it does – bright colors, lively, hopeful. a very subtle detail, but I added a small smile on her face for a small sense of hopefulness. I also grew very fond of butterflies during those months, and they always made me smile even just a little bit. so I help onto that hope that maybe it wont be too bad after all, maybe I'm forgetting to be grateful and I'm missing so much good things around me while I drowned in self pity. and well tada butterflies in the painting too :D AND LASTLY! the flowers :)) well. I really just love flowers so i,, added them there. but then i thought,, oh hey it actually fits cuz I found the beauty of those hard times. in the end I didn't regret anything cuz I learned a lot from it and actually helped me grow, which is wonderful and very important in whatever journey you're going through. everything happens for a reason, u may not notice it at that moment, u may never even know the reason why or understand why all this happened. and that's okay! as long as u learned something from it, learn to be grateful for the tiniest things.
UH YEAH THAT'S VERY LONG :,)) I know not everyone likes reading long stuff and that's totally understandable! if u read through this, thank you and I hope I could get my thoughts across and possibly inspire someone. because I know a lot of us go through this and I want to let u know that you're not alone! it's okay to not be okay. you'll get through it. if u hear screaming it's me cheering in the distance for you \( ^ 3 ^ )/ I hope u all have a wonderful day! again, thank you for reading till here :D
Jul 6, 2021
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For critique:
okii for giving critique, I need some advice on the background? what would have been a good background for this other than what I have now? and also for the body proportions, It looks a bit off to me but i can't pin point what's wrong ;-; aaand lastly any critique on this is very welcome! if you're fine with reading long stuff I also would love critique about how I translated my idea into this piece! (read below)
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NOW EXPLANATION WHAT THIS PIECE MEANS TO ME :D (this might be a bit long oops)
during october last year I fell into art block and I thought it wouldn't be so bad like my other art blocks where I could get out of it in a week or so. but oH BOY I was WRONG. it got worse and worse, I ended up losing motivation in doing anything at all, and fell into bad habits, my anxiety worsened, became pessimistic when I was an optimist my whole life. at that point I didn't think it was just an art block anymore. it felt like my mind was entangled in incomprehensible knots of endless negative thoughts squeezing the life out of me – as cliche as that sounds.
which! explains the string/rope/chord(?) wrapping around the person on this painting! I also made her look like she's floating to give the feeling of "aimless wandering" because that's basically what I felt during those months. I didn't mean to make the background look like water, but ig making her look submerged underwater also works :0 maybe.
funfact: the initial idea that made me want to start this painting was: I remember late at night staring at the street lights without my glasses. I have horrible eyesight btw
so the blobs of light made an interesting shape when it glowed. when I squinted my eyes, it formed strikes of vertical lights stretching from the blob of streetlight. I thought that was really cool so I wanted to incorporate that into a painting. and ta-da! I added it on the glowing butterflies on the bottom right of this piece! (not the most noticable but it's there hehehe)if I made this painting DURING those difficult months, I probably would've used a different color palette, perhaps more muted darker tones to match what I felt. but I planned out this piece with my POV of getting out of the miserable times. my pov NOW, is the reason it looks the way it does – bright colors, lively, hopeful. a very subtle detail, but I added a small smile on her face for a small sense of hopefulness. I also grew very fond of butterflies during those months, and they always made me smile even just a little bit. so I help onto that hope that maybe it wont be too bad after all, maybe I'm forgetting to be grateful and I'm missing so much good things around me while I drowned in self pity. and well tada butterflies in the painting too :D AND LASTLY! the flowers :)) well. I really just love flowers so i,, added them there. but then i thought,, oh hey it actually fits cuz I found the beauty of those hard times. in the end I didn't regret anything cuz I learned a lot from it and actually helped me grow, which is wonderful and very important in whatever journey you're going through. everything happens for a reason, u may not notice it at that moment, u may never even know the reason why or understand why all this happened. and that's okay! as long as u learned something from it, learn to be grateful for the tiniest things.
UH YEAH THAT'S VERY LONG :,)) I know not everyone likes reading long stuff and that's totally understandable! if u read through this, thank you and I hope I could get my thoughts across and possibly inspire someone. because I know a lot of us go through this and I want to let u know that you're not alone! it's okay to not be okay. you'll get through it. if u hear screaming it's me cheering in the distance for you \( ^ 3 ^ )/ I hope u all have a wonderful day! again, thank you for reading till here :D
Jul 6, 2021#watercolor
#illustration
#flowers
#underwater
#finearts
Comments
i love the shading of the dress and flowers ! your painting is so pretty as usual. i think you translated your idea well. i like how you painted this with your current pov like you said. the colors really match with how calm the girl looks. maybe the butterflies and flowers could be more spread out to make the painting look more even? but having one side with the bright red/orange and the other with white butterflies is an interesting choice if that's what you went for! i think those items are amazing choices though :) as for anatomy, the pose does look stiff but i don't see anything wrong with the proportion. the texture of everything is really pretty too. lastly, i like how the string floats instead of wrapping close around the girl. maybe the string that's above her head could go a little lower bc to me it looks kinda high but yea ^^
i like how you chose to draw what you experienced, not many do that (including me haha) so that's amazing. the meaning of this piece is truly inspiring for sure
i like how you chose to draw what you experienced, not many do that (including me haha) so that's amazing. the meaning of this piece is truly inspiring for sure
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