Minjae Lee - Recreation of "The Light of Mercy"

The Light of Mercy - Minjae Lee

2015

7.8 x 7.8 Inch (200 x 200 mm)

Mixed Media on Paper with wood frame



The Light of Divine

I was inspired by Minjae Lee's work called The Light of Mercy and so I decided to recreate the artwork in my style.
For this piece I used water colour, which was the closest material that could create a soft image like Minjae Lee's work especially of the face.

 The first piece was a practice to be able to understand colour study and its blending strength.

I used a pen to outline the face, the pen will make the work look more clean than the pencil. The collection of colours at the bottom left are the colours I am going to use so I tested how it would appear on the paper before applying it to the face.


I used blue on areas where there is very few lighting, so I don't use black which would make the piece look darker. I wanted the work to look vibrant like Minjae Lee's artwork.










For the hair, I left it dark brown colour rather than black because with brown you can see the tones and shadow in the hairstyle, which would be quite difficult to see with black.




To improve this piece, I should use the bleach + ink for the back ground since that technique can create a pattern that is similar to The Light of Mercy's background.

































The Light of Divine
A4 size paper,
Mixed Media on paper, pen (0.3),pencil (3B, HB and H)  and watercolour.

Yan Pei Ming - Barack Obama's Portrait in Oil Pastel

This the portrait of Barack Obama I recreated using oil pastel. I first tried out the medium by recreating a small portion.

I used five oil pastels; Sepia, grey, gold, silver and black. I tried to minimise how much I use black because it is a dominating colour and if I use it too much, the image will come out too dark.

Another oil pastel practice, with the rest of the face. I used the same oil pastels for this piece as well. The colours I used for the closest in colour to the original piece by Yan Pei Ming.

Yan Pei Ming - Mao Zedong's Portrait

<-Yan Pei-Ming, Portrait of Mao, 1999

 Using graphite, I made a continuous line before using tones and shades on the portrait. I used landscape instead of portrait because I only wanted to draw the upper half of Mao Zedong's portrait and also fill up the paper. The graphite was hard to use because the line was quite thick and difficult to make a portrait with it. I didn't put much effort on the eyes because it wasn't the main focus, this study was to be able to recreate the portrait's outline with a continuous line in a short time.