My Mandala

bupaje · Post by **bupaje** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:47 pm

Had to do this for Psyc class. Has some flaws as I had to hammer it out last night in between my assignments for 2D and 3D. Represents me, my goals, ideals and aspirations -or so it seemed last night. Arm is a paint over of my arm.

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:34 pm

It is so beautiful!. Congratulations!
What painting technique did you use? Is it all digital art or have some hand made?

ulrik · Post by **ulrik** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:10 pm

Great painting bupaje, I love thoose contrast between the colors and between light and dark, and the beautiful arm growing right out from the tree....very cool!!

bupaje wrote:" Arm is a paint over of my arm."

do you mean there is a photo of your arm and you painted over it?
Good work, I really like it.

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:11 pm

Very poetic. Congratulations on a great piece of artwork.

bupaje · Post by **bupaje** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:18 pm

Yes, I stood in front of the bathroom mirror and snapped an image of my arm. I did a sketch first and put that on the bottom layer. Hands are a pain to draw and I was finishing off my DVD last night so only had a little time; I posed my arm to match my sketch and snapped a few pics. Picked best one and resized to match the sketch.

I put a layer over it and painted some details in grayscale. Then after I painted all the details in gray scale for the image I copied a cleaned up copy of my sketch on top and set the layer to multiply -to add back some of those hand drawn lines. Then I added a color layer set to multiply and painted in some textures, used liquify to bend some wood textureing over the tree (not perfect) and then I painted some light on anew layer, blurred it, set to dodge and reduced the opacity until it sort of worked.

Thanks for the kind words.

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:04 am

Great artwork!

Yes, hands are perhaps the most difficult to draw external body parts. That opposing thumb is just so confusing...

Anyway, well done and good luck with your DVD at the Queen Mary with your fellow students and industry people.

bupaje · Post by **bupaje** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:11 am

Thanks. Have a lot riding on this. Hate to dig a $35K hole and 18 months of hard work and stress to not find work.

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:40 am

Looks great! I like how you worked your arm into it.