Art Of: Phyllis
Transcript of Art Of: Phyllis
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ART OF: PHYLLIS
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THE BRIEF
For our first project we were asked to produce concept art of oneof Italo Calvinos fantastical cities in Invisible Cities. Italo Calvino
was an Italian writer of short stories and various novels. InvisibleCities published in 1972, was one of his most notable books.
In his book, Calvino describes a number of imaginary cities, eachvery distinctive to the other. Our task was to read short passagesdescribing each city and produce a minimum of 100 thumbnails,
exploring all of the cities. Finally, we chose a city that interested usthe most and proceeded to create three pieces of digital conceptart. We were asked to visualise our chosen city in three di!erenttypes of shot: exterior establishing shot, exterior low angle shot andfinally an interior establishing shot.
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CHOSEN CITY
Upon successfully completing 100 thumbnails exploring all ofCalvinos cities, I decided to choose Phyllis as my final city ofchoice. Phyllis is described as an idealistic, classic, Romantic
city "with a lot of charm. I picked this city out of all thepotential cities because I thought I could really work with itand produce something very atmospheric. To me, the city ofPhyllis sounded like a cross between a Mediterranean andMiddle Eastern city, with its great big, onion domes, canals,
temples and, traditional markets.
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INFLUENCESMy maininfluences for
Phyl l is camefrom MiddleE as t ern andMediterraneancountries like
A n c i e n t
Greece, Italy,Turkey andPersia.
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THUMBNAILS OF PHYLLIS
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DEVELOPING THE EXTERIOR
ESTABLISHING SHOTAs I started tothink aboutdeveloping myexterior shot, Istartedexperimenting
with di!erentcolours andcompositions. Istarted researchinto
impressionismand inparticular
ThomasMorans
paintings.
I selected key colours to use in my ownpaintings by colour picking fromMorans impressionist paintings.
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FINAL EXTERIOR
ESTABLISHING SHOT
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DEVELOPING THE EXTERIOR
LOW ANGLE SHOT
I started looking into images of
traditional bazaars as I wantedto paint a market scene for myexterior low angle shot ofPhyllis. This is because Phyllis isrenowned for its delicious,
exotic fruits.
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Close up of exterior low angle shot. I tried to make the citylook alive by adding people, animals and an old bike proppedup against a wall.
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FINAL EXTERIOR LOW
ANGLE SHOT
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DEVELOPING THE INTERIOR
SHOT
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FINAL INTERIOR SHOT
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Close up images of the interior shot.Here I have painted the bronze statuesof three queens in the Golden Temple.
The queens each represent di!erentvalues, for example Love, Compassionand Wisdom. The people of Phyllis
visit the Golden Temple to pray to the
statues and seek guidance in their lives.