Now just a Splash of Color!
Color. Even when I grabbed that chalk I was scared of it. Grayscale has been my comfort zone, & specialty throughout my artistic experiences. My high school role model was M.C. Escher and his black & white illusions. Even now in the last several months from when I first grabbed that chalk, finding storyboards being mostly grayscale with just 3-4 values. I looked at it as an opportunity to stay within my little realm of knowledge. This was the holidays and got me thinking about how artists survive income-wise thinking how they get the most of their commissions because my amateur skills can’t come [pete with a hyper-realistic 8+ hour pencil drawing for only $15. Searching through gigs and coming up with options it dawned on me. Color is where that money is, and rightfully so I found out during this time of studies, as it requires another set of skills I have yet to embark on. So back to the masters and wouldn't know it, my main mentor was to the rescue wi...