Yulia Kravchenko - 2022/2023 Portfolio

For my artistic intention, I was very inspired by my immediate surroundings at the time of starting this exercise. October was a gloomy, rainy month. On most days, whenever I'd go out, I'd see a lot of snails crawling on the asphalt all around my neighborhood, and I thought that shading their bodies could be an interesting challenge. I found the warm, almost cozy coloring of their shells combined with overcast lighting and mossy asphalt to work nicely in contrast.

Still Life

This is an assignment from my first year at ESMA that I decided to revisit. I liked the initial concept, but I felt like my initial execution could have been better. 

Softwares used: Maya, Mudbox, Nuke

Succulent Lookdev

Our Summer exercise this year was to create a plant in a pot. My goal behind this project was to have fun with the pot itself and to play around with the shading of the succulent leaves. I liked the roughness variation on the references that I had, and I wanted to see if I could do it justice.

Softwares: Maya, Mudbox, Nuke, Procreate, Photoshop.

I decided to go for a Sedum Clavatum succulent because I liked the experimentation possibilities that it brings for shading. The red tips, combined with a lot of SSS and noticeable variation in the roughness of the leaves, really called my attention. It is also native to Mexico, which is where I'm from.

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