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Mirrors of the Soul

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Disclaimer: These images were /heavily/ referenced from crops of digital paintings found here on DeviantART. Unfortunately, as these were done over a year ago, I can no longer recall the original artists, nor do I have the links to the original images themselves. Therefore, if you recognize either of these images, know who the artists are (or ARE the artist), please, let me know so I can give them credit for their absolutely amazing work.

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This was an assignment for my Design class at LSCC. We were supposed to do a portrait with a monochromatic color scheme using a tertiary color, as value and color practice through constructing our own "paint by number" sort of scenario with the photos or other images we were using. It had to be people and it had to be a portrait, and I was on a serious Naruto kick at the time. I was planning to do all three of the Sannin, but I couldn't find an image of Tsunade that was up to par with and stylistically similar enough to the other two to utilize, so I decided to just stick with my two most favorite characters in the entire series, and gave them complementary colors that suited them to a reasonable degree.

This also led to me deviating a bit from the assignment (we weren't supposed to use pure black or pure white at all), but when I explained the reasons behind my design choices (i.e. character symbolism/contrast type of things), the teacher let it slide.

I think that when I was halfway through painting Jiraiya, I was on such an art high and so freaking happy with the piece that it literally made me giddy. I can see my mistakes and sloppy edges now, but these two paintings still bring me joy, so I don't really mind them.

Jiraiya, Orochimaru (c) not me
Original images referenced: (Need the links, I really hope someone recognizes these, their art is amazing and the originals are really much better)
This particular art piece (c) me
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salvadorqueen's avatar
That is beautiful! ❤❤ love them both💋💋