Artist inspired

I haven't had much of a chance to get my own work posted up yet despite the fact that I have almost finished three new paintings. One of course if for my experimental studio, and then the other two are for my series studio. I feel particularly inspired this semestre though. I was very anxious to dive into painting and really have seen myself improving even this early. It's very exciting. I guess what I really want to do in this post is show some stuff by my most favorite artist, Yoshitaka Amano, someone that really has inspired my own work. He's very illustrative in his style, but at the same time he manages to create interesting abstracted figures and environments. What I'll be showing is more of his character illustration and I have of course added the link to his art page in the gateway.

These images I'm posting pertain to costumes I've made based on his character design. It is sometimes very difficult to translate these into clothing format because they are watercolor. I think I made a decent attempt though. If you're interested costumes can be found on my coscom account which I also provided a link to.

These particular ones are what I feel as examples of figures that become the environment. Amano has a very distinct style. His color mixing is very mature and despite many neutral tones, he also has a lot of bright colors as well. His line work is exquisite and makes me definitely stop to take in all the detail. You can still see a nice use of wet and dry paint, glazing and many other techniques to create such stunning pieces. I highly recommend checking his art out.