Sustained Investigation #12

Lost in Thought

13" x 17" at 300 dpi

Digital

The story behind this drawing is that the character is lost in thought. They are standing on an old house in the woods, staring out at a bright light. The light represents the idea and the sky is colorful. Everything is saturated and unreal representing the unrealistic nature of their thoughts. This project relates to my own life because I can easily get off track and focused on a single project or topic. Another reason I choose to make this is that I wanted to experiment with another interesting color scheme and some of the stranger procreate brushes.

I made this using my tablet with procreate. I used the liquify tool to create the sky, and I used a combination of 4 brushes for the rest of the drawing.

I used the light in the sky to emphasis the character and create contrast. I primarily used purples and blues instead of blacks for shadows to give the drawing more depth and interest. Originally, this started out as a line of trees, the lightbulb, and the strange sky. However, I decided that it needed to have more layers in order to have a better composition. So, I added the trees, field, house, and character. Going forward, I'd like to neaten up the drawing without reducing the bizarre and eye catching aspect of all of it.