Week 11 Blog Exercise - Dimension/Depth – Photo Panorama

"Mystery." by 0stargazer0 on DeviantArt

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The above image is another example of my favorite digital art style, vexel. This piece of artwork comprises of dimension, depth, space and scale.

The artist created this piece of art based on a picture of an actual person, transforming a 3-dimensional human into a 2-dimensional art piece. However, with the use of gradient tones from lightness to darkness, the woman, from afar, looks almost 3-dimensional. The overall color of the image is on a gray-scale, with the use of black as the entire background, only showing areas with light, allowing the viewer to concentrate more on these areas. Line defines each shade of gray, generating depth throughout the image; white represents where most of the light hits, while black represents where the least to no light hit. With the use of the pen tool, the artist can create these round edges which defines the shape of the face and arms allowing it to become more realistic.

What's interesting about this art piece is the use of black, which represents the background, as well as the hair and her clothing. The black creates an illusion that this woman is floating in empty space. Her arms start out of nowhere but ends at the fingertips. She almost looks like she doesn't have hair however, there are black spaces which resemble hair strands over her face and over her arms. It's almost as though the hair, background and clothing are not important for the viewer. The face has to be the most detailed part of the art piece because the first features a person identifies with another person are their face. An example of scaling within this art piece are the arms. The woman's right arm slowly becomes narrower and thinner as her arm continues to reach her back or the back of her head. Also, since her head is tilted upwards and not directly at the camera, it would be natural that her chin and jawline would cover more of her face. The fingers on her left hand almost seem as though they are short stubs but since they are bent inwards, it doesn't receive any light, thus causes it to be missing from the hand.