Rose
October 2015
This is the first sketch I did of a profile view of myself and I don't like it that much so I wont be using this for my piece except for maybe the inspiration around the circle and background. With this first sketch I was playing around with the background because I wasn't sure what I wanted to have as the background. I wanted to play around with organic lines and with art nouveau how there is typically a circle around the head and organic lines. However I did not include floral detail in this sketch but i think that I will have floral details in the final piece.
I think that this sketch it is much better because I think that I have better proportion and I like the way I did the hair better in this one. The background however I am not too sure on what I want to do or if this is what I want. For the background I think that I want organic lines, but I don't want that to be the only thing on the background. I think that I want to do floral details for sure, probably roses because it would add contrast. I am going to use this one for my reference photo while doing my piece.
This one I think I am going to use the hair as reference but not the face because my second one is more proportionate I feel. With playing around with the background, I like the way the vines look and I think that they could work for having roses in the background.
I decided to experiment with ways to draw roses and how to color them in and also how I want to color the vine and thorns. This is the flower that I chose to have the background be. I wasnt sure how I wanted to draw or color the roses so I was experimenting with how I could do it.
Like my selfportrait I used the same piece for my inspiration for this artwork because I was already familiar with Mucha's artwork. I also included the work of floral detailing but in a more simplified way.
Mucha, Alphonse M. F Champenois Imprimeur Editeur. 1897. Alphonse Maria Mucha The Complete Works. Web.
Mucha, Alphonse M. F Champenois Imprimeur Editeur. 1897. Alphonse Maria Mucha The Complete Works. Web.