 What's up everybody, it's Sean Taylor as always and today I'm going over five visual tips to create a mysterious artist image. A lot of these images I'll be going through quickly, but of course you can just pause it, you can watch on YouTube if you need to look at it a little bit longer. Anyway, I'll also end with the image that we can use that brings so many of these elements together. Right into it, silhouettes. Silhouettes are naturally mysterious because we can't see all of whoever the figure is. And we wonder what they're looking like or wonder what their facial expression date gives us so much information is saying and reading. And it even creates a sense of, you know, fear in an instance like this. And it's not because all of them were black and white, by the way, because you look at this one and it still has that sense of mystery just being a silhouette. But number two is black and white, which is why you commonly see black used in so much mysterious stuff. You know, white is actually a lot of times unnecessary evil. But if you do black and blue or black and other things, you can still create a sense of mystery. You just have to be skilled at what you're doing because the real thing is really darkness. The nighttime has this sense of danger that we associate with it, the sense of unknown and all those things. So the night, the black, that's the real thing, but oftentimes you'll see black and white used in complete faces. So a lot of people don't really realize this, but look at this cat, right? First of all, it's a dope ass picture. This cat looks like a boss. But if you look and you just see his face, you don't see his eyes. You're wondering, we get information from the face so we can't see some of the face we wonder. And then this is the exact reverse, right? You see the eyes and the mouth and everything, but you can't really see the rest, right? So this incomplete, you don't see the forehead at least that brings that whole idea. What else? Sia uses this, the whole eye covering thing, even though her bangs doesn't necessarily always cover her eyes. Just the fact that her bangs go so low, you can't see some of her face and it helps a part of that mystery. She doesn't look open. And then this is that, you know, stereotypical masquerade ball mask and you can see the eyes. You can see the nose, mouth and all that stuff, but it still has this sense of mystery. That's just what covering of the face does. And then fourth is symbols, especially like religious symbols and things like that, because a symbol means that it's standing for something greater. So anybody encountering that is going to know that there's something deeper, there's a deeper meaning and you trying to become a mysterious artist, if you have your own symbol or you're using symbols then people are going to associate and understand there's a deeper meaning and wonder what that meaning is. By the way, top right is the Masonic symbol, Freemasons. Bottom right is, you might recognize that that's the Apple's App Store symbol. People don't realize that was inspired by the Freemasons. I wonder why Apple's doing so good. But anyway, that's none of my business. That's just another symbol right here that kind of has that whole mystery or ancient epic. Like you could tell it means something more when you see it. Religious people use, once again, so much. So many religious symbols, but especially the crosses use so much. Transparency, last but not least, number five. So transparency, it creates this sense of mystery. This guy did a decent job at it right here. But a lot of people, they don't really use it too much. Maybe because it's difficult, but I believe the artist who really does that, since so few people use transparency for mystery, they'll actually stand out a lot more than others because it's so underutilized. If they do it and they do it well, an artist that can use transparency will really stand out. And here's a picture the weekend did, once again, bringing together so many of the elements that I spoke of, see if you can figure them out. If you can't, here are a few, well, at least five of them. Yeah, letters, black and white. Nighttime is literally nighttime in this picture and then silhouettes and blurbs. He used all these things, right? And his hair is a symbol, technically. Anyway, have a great one. You know what to do. Subscribe.