The drawings are finally here! For a special treat, you will get to see the completed artwork drawings of the ballet, Mozartiana on today's post at The Autistic Animator's Desk.
To recap on the insights of this ballet, even for readers who are not familiar with it, Mozartiana was choreographed by George Balanchine for New York City Ballet, setting with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's music from Suite No. 4, Mozartiana, Op. 61 (1887) to the style of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and it made the first performance for the Tchaikovsky Festival in 1981, featuring dancers Suzanne Farrell, Ib Anderson, and Christopher d' Amboise, and they are joined with four women in the corps de ballet and four little girls from the School of American Ballet. Mozartiana was considered to be Balanchine's last work he created for the company before his death in 1983.
Then, I shared my very first drawing I painted in watercolor to character designs on the characters in digital drawing for the couple of previous posts last August. On that character design post, I end up mentioning that I will be working on the full-length artwork project on this ballet in digital drawing and use the character designs as a model guide.
I will be sharing six drawings of the Mozartiana artwork on today's post. They're all done in digital drawing at 1600 x 1080, thanks to Autodesk SketchBook. Each drawing illustrates four sections in the ballet, such as Preghiera (Prayer), Gigue/Minuet, Theme and Variation, and Finale. During my time working on this project, as mentioned, I used my character design drawings to use as my model guides to draw the characters in their exact designs for each drawing, and not only that, I also used the full YouTube video of the 1984 performance and Google images for references to draw one of the poses.
Originally, I was going to do a total of seven drawings for this project, but then, I end up deciding to shorten it down to six drawings. If you all are following me on Discord, Instagram, and Facebook, you might have seen the post of the pencil sketch of the Finale section, which is the sixth drawing. In that post, I made an announcement that the reason for it was because of time consuming, due to other projects I need to catch up with, especially for one of the drawings I wanted to share for the fall season, and Halloween I wanted to post by next month in October. So, I thought it would be easy just to have six drawings.
I begin working on this project in the middle of August, focusing on the first two drawings to draw the dancers in rough pencil sketches, creating the violet-blue background with paint bucket tool and saving it in a JPEG copy, so I can put it in the rest of the drawings, cleaning up the outlines, even using different colors (more focusing on the costumes) and adding locations of shadows with blue pencil, coloring the characters, and repeat for the rest.
Rough Drawing Sketches
Here are the main rough drawings for the main six drawings, drawn on Autodesk SketchBook, in rough pencil. These sketches were shared on social media, just to give you all the insights on what each drawing is going to look like, but also draw the poses for each dancer character, based on George Balanchine's choreography, which is very important.
Background
The project was finished on September 13th, 2024.
And finally, here are the main drawings of George Balanchine's last ballet in the next section down below, drawn in a beautifully style of classic 2D digital animation, and I hope you will enjoy seeing them in a completed form and in color!
Mozartiana Artwork 1 (Preghiera/Prayer)
Digital drawing, 1600 x 1080
The first drawing illustrates the beginning of Mozartiana, where the principal ballerina and four little girls perform the Preghiera or known as Prayer.
Finished on August 18th, 2024.
Mozartiana Artwork 2 (Gigue & Minuet)
Digital drawing, 1600 x 1080
The second drawing illustrates a combination of Gigue (second section with the Male Soloist) and Minuet (third section with the women corps de ballet). The Male Soloist does this jump, during the Gigue section, before the corps de ballet would come in for the Minuet, so I thought I could add it for this drawing.
Finished on August 23rd, 2024.
Mozartiana Artwork 3 (Theme & Variation 1)
Digital drawing, 1600 x 1080
Third drawing shows one of the movements in the fourth section of Mozartiana called Theme & Variation, featuring both the principal ballerina and the male principal dancer, and each will dance their own solo before the Pas de Deux. Here we have the ballerina dancing her variation.
Finished on August 14th, 2024.
Mozartiana Artwork 4 (Theme & Variation 2)
Digital drawing, 1600 x 1080
Fourth drawing is the second part of Theme and Variation, with the male principal dancing his solo; this pose was actually inspired by dancer Ib Anderson, one of the original dancers of this ballet, dancing in this exact pose I found an image from Pinterest, shot in black and white.
Finished on August 29th, 2024.
Mozartiana Artwork 5 (Pas de Deux)
Digital drawing, 1600 x 1080
Fifth drawing illustrates the pas de deux of the ballerina and male principal dancer, after dancing Theme and Variation.
Finished on September 3rd, 2024.
Mozartiana Artwork 6 (Finale)
Digital drawing, 1600 x 1080
And here's the sixth drawing, as well as the final artwork of Mozartiana, and it shows all of the dancers come in together for the Finale.
Finished on September 13th, 2024.
So, that's all of the drawings of Mozartiana, and I hope you all enjoyed looking at the drawings on this new topic here! Do you have a favorite drawing piece of this ballet? If you have, please name one in the comments down below! If you would haven't seen two of the previous posts on Mozartiana, such as the watercolor drawing or the character design drawings, but would like to check it out, I've already left each in the link down below, so please feel free to have a look.
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