色の問題

数日後、ホワイトデーのプレゼントで僕の顔を描いたけど実は描くの結果はあまり好きじゃない。
なぜだろうか？顔の割合がちょっと変だと思ったけど他の部分がおかしいかも。
なんだろうか？

その考えが今日までこころの奥底に置いた。

今日バイトでなにもしなかった。天気が悪かって誰もがいなかった。退屈を倒すためにネットの力を使っていろいろのイラスト向けサイトを探検して見た。見てながらいつの間にか頭に閃いた。

「ああ、そこだ。」

っていうか、前に考えた絵の問題をやっと分かった。僕の絵は複雑すぎる。詳しく言って色が複雑でメチャクチャだ。
僕のテクニックは絵描きのとおりで「暗いから明るい」という方法を使ってさらに色の順番を使った。
例えば、色を見たら青は一番遠く見える色で一方で黄色は一番近いの。そうして影は普通に黒か青の色に近づいて一番近いのところは黄色か白いが混ぜった色が描かれた。

それはいいけど僕の絵には色が多いどころがその描いた色が混ぜりすぎて汚くなってきた。
だからその問題の答えもっとシンプルにならないといけない。

その上に書いたことよりシンプルになったら僕の絵は僕のスケッチに会える。みんなが言った、「スケッチはすばらしい」とか新鮮か自然的が言われた。僕でもスケッチは絵よりすごいと思う。もし僕の絵はもっとスケッチの法見たいなら大丈夫だと思う。

ジャ、シンプルって言うのは赤顔を描いたら影は赤ムラサキに近い色だ。ちょっと説明にくい。。。な。

ま、とにかく、上に置いた絵はバイトで会と練習だ。マウスしか使わなかったけど練習だけならいいよ。
だから、今からもっと練習しなきゃ。
すぐに卒業することになるけどイラストレータとして僕の教育は学校の限界を超える。

はあ、その小さいの文章でもすごい時間かかった。。。

ま、いっか、もっと書かないといけない。。。もっと上手になりたい。

So, a few days ago I did a self portrait as a white day present for my girlfriend. It came out ok, but in all honesty I didn't really like it. Something about it was off, but I couldn't exactly put my finger on it.
There were some obvious things, like the proportions of some the facial features were off, but that's wasn't what was bothering me.

Anyway, this has been in the back of my mind until today. But today I finally figured it out while at work.

Today I did almost nothing at work. The weather was terrible today and no one was in the building today because of that. To defeat my boredom I used the awesome power of the internet and searched through a multitude of illustration sites.

Then it hit me.

"That's it!"

It turns out that my painting are overly complicated. Specifically, the colors are too complicated and bordering on muddy.

My technique usually follows the basic methods of painting. Dark to light, shadows to highlights and in that line of thought, using colors to set the space of things. Blue appears the furtherst to eye and yellow appears the closest. So as an example, a shadow with a dark blue (blue and black) tint sits back more, and a highlight with light yellow (yellow and white)well appear closest, and it makes things "pop" as my former teacher and acclaimed Illustrator Jim Burke would often say.
I'm doing all this, but in my paintings I seem to be overdoing it...

So, the answer to all this is to just make things more simple. A lot of the illustrations I looked at seemed to have this to them and mine was missing that.
It could be said that this is the way that I work, but I don't think it is. By going simple I not only improve but I would create unity between my paintings and sketches.

Many people have been impressed by my sketches and often using words such as "fresh" and "natural." ...well, I agree with them and I even think that my sketches are in some ways better looking than my paintings. Actually, not even that, my sketches are more stylistic and represent me to a better degree than my paintings I feel.
With that said, I believe core property of my sketches are that they are simple. They more than often have to be that way since most of them are subway sketches. I have only a few moments at times to capture a likeness. Somehow this seems to create something beautiful to me.

So, I have to somehow make my paintings closer to this. I have to evoke that simplicity.

Anyway, during work I tried to do a little color practice to kinda of try someting closer to what I was talking about. It's going to take a while, but I have to improve my paintings.

...not to say that I don't think my portfolio is good, but it could be better, I'm here to be a professional.
I'll be graduating soon, but my education isn't limited to the confines of school itself.

Ah...well, other than that, I'm still continuing with the Japanese writing. I'm surprised that such a small passage took so much time to do. But if I keep it up, hopefully the process will continue to get more streamlined.