Saturday, December 15, 2012

Create Your Own World With Fantasy Art Websites

By Brandie Montgomery


Fantasy art websites have become extremely popular to the layman who browses the internet. The kind of work that is featured on these sites is completely mythical and unreal pieces that come are inspired by the imagination. The work is based on legends and myths such as dragons, mermaids and fairies. There are a couple of basic ideas that are explored.

Surrealism became popular early in the 20th century when artists viewed their work as expression of the philosophical movement. These artists created pieces of work that were completely unexpected and different. Ordinary items were mutated to form unreal forms. Most surrealistic artists worked in a style which can be best described as super-realism.

The work itself forms part of a particular style called surrealism. This was a style that was made popular and well known by people such as Salvador Dali. Their masterpieces were based on the idea of the philosophy of movement. They believed in giving a message to the onlookers by means of creating creatures and objects that were distorted or mutated. They used surrealism to give a realistic idea of what the imagination could bring.

In this kind of art, the fight between good and evil always has an element within one of these renderings. This is a representation of the contrasts within the portrait; soft against hard; light against dark; fire against ice. It's always good to incorporate some kind of contrast to the main theme of the work to add some drama to it.

There are fantastical works depicting fairies of all kinds. Usually in the form of beautiful women who have been digitally altered so that their hair becomes ethereal and sparkling. They are given a pair of translucent wings and they are surrounded by a background that can only be imagined as a perfect background.

Once the composition has been decided upon, a sketch will be done of the masterpiece and scanned into the program that will digitize the rest of the piece. Color and form is added layer by layer until the final product has been completed. The witch casting a spell on some woeful soul is created.

The dragon guarding his fairy queen breathes his fire. The merman swimming side by side with his mermaid swirls into the background. The fairy sitting on the ground in toe deep moss is holding a butterfly. The colors are beautifully rendered and cover the full spectrum of the rainbow.

Other mythical creatures are explored such as mermaids, wizards and fairies that are mostly featured in these masterpieces. The artist has the choice whether to depict the creature as good or evil. This kind of work has become very popular in the 20th century with the advent of surrealism and artists have the scope and acceptance to do any kind of work that they want. Fantasy art websites have grown exponentially with the advent of digital masterpieces. It gives the onlooker a chance to use his or her imagination even if they cannot create these worlds.




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