Final Project

For my final project I decided to do an artist inspired project, Don Davis is who I picked to be the person who would inspire me to draw this image. I used a software called Krita to draw this on the laptop. I decided after looking at Don's art gallery I wanted to draw space with a bunch of stars. Don has drawn a lot of cool space images including this one here. It was very fun to draw this image because I think space is very cool and limitless. For space art there is a lot of it so it makes it fun to enjoy looking at the different styles of artists.

In the Krita app, I used a Airbrush to make the background, I used a maroon color, pink and some black and then used a tortilla to mix them to make the space look in the background. I then used a star field texture to make it look like there are stars far away in the background. I left most of the maroon color on the edge of the canvas because it gives the look of gasses in space.

For the stars I used the Airbrush as well because it makes really good circles. To make a star I would pick a color and then pick a size for the star. Then spray it, to give it the look that it is glowing I would pick white or a the same color but a lighter version of it to give it that tint. So I decided to make a few gas giants and a few smaller stars to give a variety.

The yellow star I think looks the best because it is easy to make because we are used to seeing a yellow star in real life. But for the others all we have seen is images from telescopes and paintings from artists. But I think overall all the stars look good. I think maybe I could have added more to the background and also I was unsure if I put too many stars because they are close together.

I think Don's work is really good and maybe one day I will be as good as him, but for now this is the best I could make. I think over time maybe my online art skills will get better, also I think I like online better only because if you make a mistake or don't like something you don't need to restart. You can just fix what was wrong or improve so I think I really enjoyed this project of an inspired artist.