Three – The Achiever – Development and Final Outcome

Threes are highly driven and they desire to feel valuable and worthwhile. Usually they are self-assured, competent, energetic, and charming. They can have issues though of becoming overly concerned with their images, what other think of them, workaholism and competitiveness.

This was the piece I struggled with most, with the concept. I tried to represent the idea of self competence with the character holding her head up but which the swirling lines around here could represent many different things. The main being all these negative thoughts which she believes others think about her but still in the image she is holding her head up.

Sketch
Tonal Digital Mock-up

I knew I needed another painting with a lighter background to tie in One, and as this was the last painting I painted, this was my last chance to tie it in. I had been having problems with my masking fluid and not laying down or peeling up properly leaving slight residue therefore I decided to do something different and use the pattern in black and just have a smaller area with white, and with the pattern instead of using masking fluid I took my time and just filled in the black areas.

Painting

Even though I love this painting I think the contrast, I made the background slightly too dark, it was lighter in the mockup, however I made the ink wash too dark, only by ever so slightly, but once it has two layers so it becomes smooth it was too dark, and even though the rest of the image was quite dark there isn’t much light and sits on this middle tones.

I think this is more of an abstract idea formation and I think it is hard to pick out the details of the personality typing however with the difficulties of formulating an idea I am proud of the result in the end.

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