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TribalGraces β Tasha on Romulus, Dreaming of Home (Version 2)
Published: 2013-10-10 22:28:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 1382; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 8
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A re-do of my first Tasha painting posted in August. Not a portrait of Denise Crosby, per se, but a conceptual painting of a homesick Tasha Yar during her involuntary exile among the Romulans. This time around, I've tried to harmonize the color palette (which didn't photograph well), make the face look more natural, and achieve a more pronounced art nouveau look.(In the unlikely event that someone isn't familiar with Tasha Yar, she's a character from Star Trek: The Next Generation.)
Watercolor, gouache, and Prismacolor pencils. Photo reference was this beautiful picture from intergalacticstock . Balcony is based on this photo by Cinnamoncandy-Stock .
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I just love what you've been able to do with her face in this one! Longing, homesickness, is there alright.
The background has soft coloring to it, it keeps your eyes way more on your more detailed subject without distracting our attention to something else, the focus is maintained well that way.
You excel at coloring. Artwork after artwork that I've seen of yours, evidences this.
I'm TOTALLY unfamiliar with her in the context of Star Trek. Β That said, essentially I'm coming at this contextless, this has a suggestion of Romeo and Juliet type theme, or something from a fairy tale, like some sort of Rapunzel type theme. Β I do like her hair style, too.
I like the two moons. It's interesting what skies and landscapes are a part of other worlds. Lynette Cook is a great artist that imagines what those would look like on exoplanets. She even talks to scientists, tries to represent it as best as she can inside the context of knowledge that we have of exoplanets, so it's reality based.
Anyway, great job on this version!
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Thank you! I'm still rather new to color work. (Most of my drawing technique was developed with a regular lead pencil and lined notebook paper, when I should have been paying attention in algebra class.)
At any rate, I've learned that I probably shouldn't post my first version of any work. I'm never satisfied without a re-do, but I suppose that's the way to learn.
This is, perhaps, a reverse Romeo and Juliet. In the Star Trek mythos, Tasha married a Romulan general only in exchange for his sparing the lives of her shipmates. She never really returned his love. Eventually, she was killed while trying to escape Romulus.
I'll have to check out some of Lynette Cook's work.
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Thank you! I'm still rather new to color work. (Most of my drawing technique was developed with a regular lead pencil and lined notebook paper, when I should have been paying attention in algebra class.)
Ha! That's passion for you. We do what we like, what interests us more. It's a terrible conflict at times when we really shouldn't be, like when things come to me for my writing at work, and I stop to jot my thoughts down quickly. Not good, when every minute matters in my line of work, and that's like an "unauthorized break". They sure keep us busy there at work alright!
At any rate, I've learned that I probably shouldn't post my first version of any work. I'm never satisfied without a re-do, but I suppose that's the way to learn.
I know the feeling well. Sometimes yours skills improve, or eyesight, and you see things to change, or are better at rendering later on. I know I've gone back to touch up digital work I've done, and literary work I've published, though it's probably problematic or nearly impossible to try doing so with anything traditional.Β
This is, perhaps, a reverse Romeo and Juliet. In the Star Trek mythos, Tasha married a Romulan general only in exchange for his sparing the lives of her shipmates. She never really returned his love. Eventually, she was killed while trying to escape Romulus.
Knowing this, it really adds much more meaning to the artwork. Though viewers still can contextualize a work however they want to, regardless of the artist's intention. I do it all the time, but it's nice to actually know what the intention was, too. I immediately saw "Shakespearean" (largely due to her outfit) and "balcony scene" (which the two stories I mentioned can involve, depending on their telling).
I'll have to check out some of Lynette Cook's work.
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Prints:
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Here's a link so that you can view her prints, bio., and so forth on her website:
I immediately became interested, not only because of the artwork I'd seen of hers years ago, but because I liked the quote I had read of Cook's:
"This is not science fiction," she said. "These planets are so far away we cannot look at them with a camera close-up, so we can't have the assurance at this point of time that it's 100 percent accurate. And that's fun for me because I can use some imagination as long as it is scientifically plausible. It can't be too far-out or I can't do it."
Cook's extrasolar planet art may seem like they are strictly sci-fi or even surrealistic , but, as someone puts it, "Cook stressed that they are grounded in science". So they are reality-oriented. Some of her other work that is not depicting things extrasolar like that, can be metaphorical, sci-fi-ish, etc. Just saying. I was into astronomy for a while when I was younger, but not as much now, so I see that she has a variety of art up there now, than she did back then.
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Thank you for the links. Her work is lovely. I notice she began as a traditional artist but now frequently creates her work digitally to save time and be more efficient. That's interesting, because I actually find it quicker to use traditional media. I did a lot of digital art at one time, but came back to traditional media because I liked ending up with a final product I could see and touch and hold in my hands.
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Thank you for the links. Her work is lovely. I notice she began as a traditional artist but now frequently creates her work digitally to save time and be more efficient.
I only create my artistic expressions digitally - no going back to traditional art for me. Way more productive for me.Β
That's interesting, because I actually find it quicker to use traditional media. I did a lot of digital art at one time, but came back to traditional media because I liked ending up with a final product I could see and touch and hold in my hands.
Yes. Traditional originals really can't be matched, unless you make limited numbers of digital prints of a given work, then it could be comparable in the amount of value an original has, at best.
I don't recall seeing any digital art of yours, I'll have to look again. Perhaps you don't have any submitted here.
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None of my digital art is online. Sadly, much of it is on hard drives or ZIP drives I can no longer access...another reason I switched back to traditional art. The one exception, if you want to even call it that, is this montage/manipulation of elements from three of my previously posted watercolors.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all opposed to digital work. There are some jaw-droppingly wonderful examples here on dA. I'm so impressed by some of the amazing artists here.
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None of my digital art is online. Sadly, much of it is on hard drives or ZIP drives I can no longer access...
Yes, that is sad.
The one exception, if you want to even call it that, is this montage/manipulation of elements from three of my previously posted watercolors.
Nice composition of the three there. If only I knew more about Star Trek, I could get so much more out of the work you do. I'll try to learn as I go.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all opposed to digital work. There are some jaw-droppingly wonderful examples here on dA. I'm so impressed by some of the amazing artists here.
I didn't get you wrong then, for I just thought it was more of a personal preference of yours, not anything more than that, certainly not sticking your nose up at that way of creating art digitally, or anything of the like.
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Tasha has to be one of my favourite Trek characters. I always hoped there would be more to reveal about her life after "Yesterday's Enterprise", or even the world in that universe.Β
This is such a lovely picture.
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Thanks! I've always felt that there was so much possibility to a story like Tasha's. There's a handful of fanfics about her life on Romulus, each one interesting in its own way, but there's very little art about the topic.
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This is a nice concept....a bit of expansion on the story of Yar's capture and subsequent conjugation to a Romulan commander.Β Β It shows that she was not treated poorly...that the Romulan commander apparently did truly love her...and yet, despite being accepted into her new environs, she cannot help but think of home...as long as home wasn't the colony she grew up on in her early years.
Well done!
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Thanks so much for your comments. I agree, she was probably loved and treated well, from the Romulan point of view. Sadly, she only ever saw her life on Romulus as captivity. That's the feeling and backstory I was going for in this painting.
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And it is well conveyed.
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I like it!Β And yes, it's even better than the first one!
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Thank you, Lorna, and thanks for the fave!
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Oh wow, I love it! Esp.Β her complexion and theΒ architectural details.Β The color scheme is fantastic; more other-worldly than the original.
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Thank you! And thanks for the fave. I'm so glad you like it!
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