The Warriors
[I know, I walked alone in the dark blue waves for a long time. The wine red in the wound converged and flowed down the muscle lines, dripping on the surface of the water, together with those white bubbles, turned into a blue phantom...]
This work is based on the "warrior" proposition of a single master. Because I prefer the romantic tragedy, I looked down at both the horse and the human head in the initial final draft.
"My first reaction at that time was that it was like a picture of just experiencing a battle. Both people and horses are very tired. And the high-spirited close-up I described before, you gave up. And such a statement is more true.
Perhaps because of the broader understanding of the word brave now, if the time goes back to the age of thirteen, I may also think that rushing forward with a flag can show the shocking feeling is the full meaning of "brave". But now, when the word brave is mentioned, the brain reacts more than such an exciting picture. In contrast, I think bravery is more of a kind of persistence.
Instead of repeatedly showing the brave and glorious side to the public, I prefer to show the appearance of the warrior behind the glory: he has experienced a lot, and he has failed and succeeded - if the impulse of anger is his "brave" capital when he was young and ignorant, then such blind self-confidence cannot guarantee him in every battle. The victory in the game. The most important thing is that he led the horse, and I treated the fibrous texture of the muscles with the reins of the horse. This physical feeling was clenched in his hand instead of just an inanimate rope. The warrior's feet are surging waves. I want to make the picture look more romantic here, so I made a lot of curved decorative designs (including the front legs raised by the horse).
Finally, the most gratifying point for the creator is that the viewer can feel the sense of steel from the work (whether it is color or structure) - that's great, this is the artistic style I want to express.
