Concept Idea

As the fall season was coming, I started exploring different colors of fall and wanted to create an artwork based around it. I looked for different reference places and in the end, I selected Japanese gardens as the main source of inspiration for my artwork.

Collecting References

Before starting with anything in Blender, the first step was to gather reference images of Japanese gardens and fall season colors. After collecting the references, I started identifying which objects I would be including in my work. The references were really helpful in making the scene representation more pleasantly similar-looking to a garden that I wanted to show.



For this project, I was going for more stylized forms yet maintaining a Japanese theme alongside.



Here are some of the references which I collected in the beginning: