Esther Neerman‘s Art

 Doing her makeup in he mirror because shes obsessed with beauty but in return is putting stuff on her face that could kill her. The wilting rose, crow reflection, makeup logos, and blacked out eye help to convey the message. Process: Sketch, base coloring, rendering, detials, final lighting Materials: Procreate

  In this piece, a woman is putting on makeup that has dangerous chemicals in its ingredients. This piece is supposed to display the obsession with beauty that pushes her towards something that is dangerous. The symbols on the makeup palletes are actually chemical compounds found in makeup that are dangerous. The crow in the mirror is a symbol of death and this unhealthy obsession. There’s a wilting rose on the vanity. I’m going to play with the expression and color palette a little bit. Process: Sketch, and base coloring. Currently Rendering  Material - Procreate, digital

 My final piece definitely has some differences compared to the initial proposal. His pose is more relaxed, the background is simplified to focus in the subject and he is only holding one item, a skull, instead of an orb and scepter. The king is looking down at the skulk with a solemn expression. But he is still chained to reality. I might go back and add some more to the chains to display that idea better. Like the raven us missing from this piece and he was originally going to be present. I just didnt know where I wanted to put him. Material - procreate Process - sketch out pose, figure out lighting source, lineart, coloring, rendering, final details

Thoughts - A king has power over his kingdom but does not have the power to free himself from the power of death. He is being held by the chains of death as the crow on his throne watches from above. However, he is also holding the scepter and sphere to display his overall material power in the material world. Processes - Rough sketch of a king sitting in his throne Material - Procreate  

  While this isn’t much different from my last progress update, i’ve been rendering the face. I began ti render the hair but due to the lighting its not too obvious. I was struggling to decide whether or not to keep the rendering on the face the same as the skull to create more contrast between the two while still trying to keep a certain style. I also decided to desaturate the background a little bit, specifically the grass.

 Process - While wanting to incorporate a portrait and death, I put a skull under the skin of the face. This piece  itself is just to represent the inevitable fact of death itself, its something we cannot escape. Thats why there is a sunset, nighttime will come no matter what. The crow in the back also reprsents the coming of death on the tree above the grave.  Again this isnt the final piece and is just block coloring and shading but it due to change a little to display my concept more Materials: Procreate

Materials: Digital Art, Procreate Process: Started w/ a mindmap and expanded my ideas. My ideas became very boad and so I narroed down the related ideas to my SI. From there I added my mibd map and started to study the styles of Johannes Vermeer for his beautiful brush strokes and the way he captures the natural light. The skull study to there to represent death and the eyes are just a study of the Renaissance style.  Ideas: Light & Shading, Realism, Contrast, Color palletes. Combing all these ideas to display my SI