Making Stunning Artworks

Many of the stunning pieces of art found in books, art museums and the internet have captured peoples imagination. Something about them just stands out and they can be visually stunning with their good uses of colour, light, shading and emotion. A lot of skill and practice has gone towards creating them.



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This is a clay and wire frame fox by Ellen Jewett. It is covered in detail and wouldn't taken a lot of concentration to shape. Also planning the placement of all of the details would've been difficult. 

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This is a very colourful piece that has been painted onto a wall. Even the bottoms of the trees were included to connect the painting with reality. Something like this would've taken hours and hours to make. Spray painting is especially difficult. Especially when you need permission to paint of a wall. Most of the time you could be limited to large pieces of paper of cardboard.

One of my favourite artists, known on Deviantart as Grypwolf is a self taught artist from Finland. They use digital art as their main media and is very well known on the internet. Their artwork is highly detailed and professional. They can do cellshading (one below) and highly realistic drawings with soft shading.

They have had years of practice with shading and lighting. Along with learning to anatomy of the animals they draw and humans. The way the lines are drawn are neat and capture the emotion perfectly. It is surprising how hard it can be to drawn emotion.





http://grypwolf.deviantart.com/art/Jieknga-519373917