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The beast and the bloom 💐

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The piece I submitted to csp contest last month! I will yap about this artwork from now on :)

The theme was plant and flower,and I wanted to make something peaceful, beautiful and romantic. The idea of werewolf in a flower shop has a nice contrast. Initially, I wanted to make him seem more ferocious,but ended up with gentler looks (Just my personal preference tbh :))

This piece is quite experimental. I tried to suggest a story with a single image ,and what’s a better way to communicate it than having a little image sequence as a stain glass in the background so it seem more like an illustration than a comic. I was inspired by many submissions from the past contest, they seem to have a clever way to incorporate sequential story telling in a single illustration. It’s a simple concept but can be hard to do because you have to work your composition around it. It takes me forever to render these flowers lol ,and trying to balance the color palette, so that it’s varied enough,but not too distracting is a fun challenge.

In the end I really love this piece. It’s fun to paint and fun to look at. It’s quite personal compared to my usual contest submission or an assignment or art piece that I considered to be shown to people professionally. Instead of performing art, I tried to be more personal with my it ,and that’s a general goal I want to achieve eventually. This is one of the most important art piece I’ve made this year.

If you made it this far, thanks for reading! <3