Saturday, 5 May 2012

Experiment: Surreal Facial Emotion

After looking at cut away shots from animations, I decided to try out a couple of detailed close up images of people to see if I can clearly convey a certain feeling from both of them, by using a mixture of inks and colouring pencils. From the two that I tried out, I found that they were both complimented by the detailed style due to the shading of the eyes and skin to clearly show the emotions of fear and anger. The detailed studies emphasise the feelings of panic in fear, and the aggression of anger with help from dark lines, appropriate shading and eye colour. Anger is aided by using a lot of warm colours to show the heat and the passion of the emotion, whereas fear was aided by dark colours to exaggerate the coldness of the situation as if time is standing still. Whilst making these images, I also tried out putting the traditional media through filters of Photoshop to see if it made a difference to the mood of the pieces. In the case of the fear drawing, putting it through an ink outlines filter increased the pieces shadows and therefore gave it a more horrified aspect to it. For anger, putting the image through a fresco filter increased the sense of darkness and grief, whereas putting it through a dry brush filter increased the brightness of the fiery colours, boosting the piece's heated feeling.



Anger (Traditional Media)

                       
                                                                Fear (Traditional Media)


 Anger (Fresco Filter) 


                                                                       Fear (Ink Outlines)  


   Anger (Dry Brush Filter)

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