Serpent Rite: Consecration<\/p>\n
For this project, I wanted to create something that felt both sacred and unsettling, a character suspended between ritual and fantasy. I\u2019ve always been drawn to creating abstract, highly detailed pieces that use artistic freedom to evoke emotion and leave viewers with a certain feeling rather than a direct explanation. Inspired partly by real shamanic rituals and cinematic storytelling, I wanted the piece to feel as if this character had been captured in the middle of an ancient ritual, frozen in a quiet but haunting moment, almost like a still frame taken from a dark fantasy film, where the viewer is left questioning whether they are witnessing a coronation, a sacrifice, or something far more symbolic.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before getting into the sculpting process, I spent quite some time gathering references and researching artistic photography, real shamanic rituals, ceremonial fashion, and dark fantasy imagery. I like pulling small elements from completely different sources and blending them to create something original, not directly inspired by one thing, but shaped by many subtle influences working together.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serpent Rite: Consecration For this project, I wanted to create something that felt both sacred and unsettling, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,89614,501,156,594,160876,111,139,69,41468],"class_list":["post-481984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-character-art","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-interviews","tag-keyshot","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-zbrush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}