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1984 Concept Art

winston smith head study

1984 Miniluv & Telescreen04

Welcome to Oceania Finished (pretty much)

Well it certainly took long enough and boy did I learn my lesson about working this big. Nothing over 3 feet on the longest edge for me for a long time. I think it has been roughly 6 or 7 months spent on this piece.

It could still use a few little tweaks and finishing touches, but essentially completed.

Welcome to Oceania Update

For the last three weeks this have been up to.

Here is a list of what is left to do:
-static & transmission lines to foreground telepost telescreen of Big Brother's face
-stains and maybe a couple of tears/holes to VM red banners
-glass reflections (VM windows, helicopter, & telepost)
-towering smoke clouds from bombs and fires in the distance
-utility lines (power, telephone/telescreen, etc)
-willow herb and vegetation growing over rubble to show length of war & state of disrepair
-feral creatures: birds (pigeons & crows) on powerlines, cat, dog
-little eddies of wind swirling up dust & lose trash (propaganda poster scraps/leaves/etc.)

This should be done in the next three or so days that I have to paint.

Also! evanwoolery.com is up and has been for the last two months. So check it out:

evanwoolery.com

1984-Character Design 01 Winston Smith

1984 Telescreen, Ministry of Peace, & Another Quick Rough Color Study

A few new pieces for 1984. And I should have my new website up later this week (evanwoolery.com). 

Color Palette Study: Welcome to Oceania

I have been giving the color test a few tries and think I finally have something roughly worth showing! I changed the color scheme a bit. It just needed to be more intense and less a serene. So I did some hunting around and thinking about a color scheme that would better convey that. Looking at Rembrandt's work I thought of how he kept so much of the under-painting in the final product and how that adds a nice sense of grit to everything. Also instead of the almost entirely analogous color scheme like I had before, the maintaining of the reddish browns and more reds makes it a complimentary color scheme, due to the green. One thing that I do second guess is if I should have a sickly yellow-green in the foreground highlights or if the more subtle palette in this piece is sufficient (it seems like it is a bad idea to get too sickly, which is why I have it this way).

I also added some clouds to spice up the sky. They seem to add a touch more emotion to everything and further drawing the eye to the focal point. The telepost/telescreen coming out of the dirty vignetted frame seems to work a lot better with the green. It seems like it is coming along and that it is honing into a more stylized and cohesive vision.