BatmanJAMES ZHOU
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Artist Statement
My prompt was to weave together two related subject matters, one in colored pencils and one in graphite that resulted in a new image. I had never used colored pencils to any artistic degree or duplicated skin tones before so I thought this would be a good assignment for me. I first worked with the solid areas of color; this gave me a sense of working with colored pencils. I then carefully built up the skin tones by mixing a variety of colored pencils. I wanted to do a character and his mask because when one person is two characters, the two characters are obviously related. I specifically choose Batman and Bruce Wayne because I thought it would be pretty neat to weave together two characters with completely separate identities. As you can see graphite was not used. I had reasons for not using graphite, shared my thoughts with the teacher and I feel the piece is better in all colored pencil.
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