Mother of Spring, by Ulmo8
Mother of Spring
This artwork is the final submission from the artist Ulmo8 for the ‘Humanity’ event by the Faerian gallery. The artist created this piece in 3 days, inspired by a prompt that was submitted by the public. In a unique twist, instead of being interpreted by an AI, this time the prompt was brought to life by a human artist. The entire creative process was livestreamed online and at the NFC Lisboa event.
Artist’s Description
Original Prompt Text
Prompt by PoUpA (Twitter: PoUpA_64)
— ‘A magical goddess who spreads love and nature to everything she touches’
— ‘A magical goddess who spreads love and nature to everything she touches’
Was AI used?
— No. Everything on my piece was made with hand drawn and painted digitally with Procreate. Photographic images were used as reference material, mostly for the background environment. All this photographic material was taken by myself during my different hiking trails in Canada.
How is your final artwork related to the prompt?
— I tried keeping the core elements of the prompt as the main protagonist of the piece. The goddess is heavily referenced on my own mother, as a bit of a kind gesture but also as a link to the motherly embrace a nature goddess would have while spreading blessings in the environment.
As for the animals and other creatures trailing behind, I was inspired by the different pets and animals that were living in our household when I used to live with my family. With a bit of an added flair for fantasy to make them into little forest spirits.
Why did you choose this prompt?
— I wanted to do a wholesome project that could present a flair of whimsical. I’ve been wanted to do a spring-like scene for a while and this was the perfect opportunity to actually engage into such Illustration.
Explain more your creative process:
– After reading and analyzing the prompts available, I decided to pick one that was not to short as to be too abstract, and not too complex, as I was afraid this could constrain my creative process.
I shortlisted the prompts that appealed to me and decided that I wanted to tackle this so I can have a vibrant and colorful piece with a heartwarming feeling.
My painting process is rather slow and meticulous. I start by doing an overall sketch and scaffolding of my composition. Once done I started by grinding at the main figures with a pencil brush. Keeping it monochrome and only defining the most notable shadow shapes I want to have.
The next step was developing the background to a point where I can more accurately see how the values of the piece will showcase the main feature of the piece. Coloring comes next, laying down the foundation for the main shapes on the piece.
Once this dead coloring is done, I take the slow but very enjoyable task of polishing the piece, adding shades, highlights and other little details.
— No. Everything on my piece was made with hand drawn and painted digitally with Procreate. Photographic images were used as reference material, mostly for the background environment. All this photographic material was taken by myself during my different hiking trails in Canada.
How is your final artwork related to the prompt?
— I tried keeping the core elements of the prompt as the main protagonist of the piece. The goddess is heavily referenced on my own mother, as a bit of a kind gesture but also as a link to the motherly embrace a nature goddess would have while spreading blessings in the environment.
As for the animals and other creatures trailing behind, I was inspired by the different pets and animals that were living in our household when I used to live with my family. With a bit of an added flair for fantasy to make them into little forest spirits.
Why did you choose this prompt?
— I wanted to do a wholesome project that could present a flair of whimsical. I’ve been wanted to do a spring-like scene for a while and this was the perfect opportunity to actually engage into such Illustration.
Explain more your creative process:
– After reading and analyzing the prompts available, I decided to pick one that was not to short as to be too abstract, and not too complex, as I was afraid this could constrain my creative process.
I shortlisted the prompts that appealed to me and decided that I wanted to tackle this so I can have a vibrant and colorful piece with a heartwarming feeling.
My painting process is rather slow and meticulous. I start by doing an overall sketch and scaffolding of my composition. Once done I started by grinding at the main figures with a pencil brush. Keeping it monochrome and only defining the most notable shadow shapes I want to have.
The next step was developing the background to a point where I can more accurately see how the values of the piece will showcase the main feature of the piece. Coloring comes next, laying down the foundation for the main shapes on the piece.
Once this dead coloring is done, I take the slow but very enjoyable task of polishing the piece, adding shades, highlights and other little details.
Year
June 2023
Medium
Digital 2D
Artist
Marco Marin, known as Ulmo8, is a fantasy illustrator and concept artist from Mexico, living in Canada.
Acquiring the artwork
Price: Min 0.35 ETH (for 1/1)
This artwork is available as a Limited Edition NFT on Ethereum with the following perks:
🎁The high-quality image, with a Public Display/Non-Commercial License
🎁 Artist’s artwork-based sticker (4″x4″), printable file + printed sticker available for shipping, all destinations included
🎁 Discounted access to the future V2 of the artwork (finalized version)
As with all 1/1 NFTs, it also lets you:
This artwork is available as a Limited Edition NFT on Ethereum with the following perks:
🎁The high-quality image, with a Public Display/Non-Commercial License
🎁 Artist’s artwork-based sticker (4″x4″), printable file + printed sticker available for shipping, all destinations included
🎁 Discounted access to the future V2 of the artwork (finalized version)
As with all 1/1 NFTs, it also lets you:
- get the status of a Guardian of Faerian, meaning you have access to our future collections in advance (private Discord channel) & you can be part of the jury for our future art contests.
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