Digital Design

The idea for my digital painting was something that would bring the viewer a sense of calmness. The main subject is the black fox. This artwork did not admittedly have much of a meaning content wise it has a wolf atop a hill staring at a busy city under a starry moon lit sky as it begins to turn night. The colors are all on the darker muted side and I used mainly blues and greens with some soft yellows and whites in small areas as stated this was meant to invoke a calm feeling. The brush marks I made were all messy in a way it was meant to look as if it was done by someone completely relaxed and just going with the flow of things as they painted. I picked the subject I did as I feel like a majority of people associate nature and night with peacefulness alongside the fact that the fox is on a hill far from the city therefore away from the chaos it is completely at peace as should be the viewer.

I had a hard time with this project for numerous reasons one of which being I had never used photoshop before nor am I a digital artist both of which made this assignment quite difficult alongside that I had the fox being extremely hard for me to draw as I mainly draw people not animals I also struggled with filling the space I felt like I had a lot of empty space throughout the painting when I was making it that I couldn’t figure out how to fill. I think I was successful in the entire sky area as it was one of the areas I felt came together quite easily for me. I also found the coloring and shading to be challenging yet successful as I am quite proud of how it turned out. All in all this was a hard project but one I felt helped me improve my skills in extreme ways.