The Story Behind "la Luna" Painting
In this video you can watch me paint as I explain the story behind my recent "la Luna" painting.
A couple days ago I painted a digital image with a stag beetle holding a red eye. My original ideas was to have a red eye with a skull inside of it and the stag beetle was a random add on that I thought would look nice. I painted it red after thinking about how this image reminded me of the Moon Tarot Card with the red lobster underneath the moon. The final image looked ok ... I thought the skull looked silly inside of the eye but even though the whole thing looked better when it was just a normal red eye, I kept the skull layer visible because ... I had to have a skull in there lol. Then I thought "Why not just have the stag beetle holding the moon? And I can put a skull in the moon and it will look fine." So I started sketching this.
While looking up images of stag beetles online I found out that there are over 1,000 different species of these, called Lucanids. The one I chose to paint is the Lucanus Elaphus. I also decided not to make it as red as a cooked lobster. The flashing red moon idea came at the end when I had finished the painting and wanted to add some animation before uploading.
When I finished the painting I realized that the eyes and nose sockets were too small so I adjusted the whole thing digitally before making the animation.
I am thinking of painting a Tarot deck based off of Entomology because I don't see one out there and I thought it would be neat. What do you guys think? But I had planned to finish a deck of black and white Lineart abstract cards for which I already have the thumbnails for. So the black & white Lineart deck has all minor arcana drawn out but no major arcana. This possible entomology deck has no thumbnails and nothing except this one la Luna card ... and I even have ideas for a pencil drawn tarot deck based off of macabre realism ... omg too many ideas
What do you guys think?
Any art related comments or suggestions?
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