Eclectic Garden Duck

EDIT: I have a poll running now to gauge interest for buying this as a print. It will be my pinned post for a week! Now back to your regularly scheduled post.

A piece has never consumed me quite like this one did. I spent every spare minute making DOTS for A WEEK. I skipped class to work on this! I SKIPPED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. I LOVE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ANDI SKIPPED IT FOR THIS.

Because this was an assignment for my drawing class, it was very well documented.

This assignment was called The Vehicle Project.

Firstly, we needed to explore all the directions we could go, which was a problem for me since I decided I was making Iron Lung fanart for this project after I had seen the movie. As a part of this, we needed to explore different objects that could be incorporated, but again, I was dead set on making that submarine lol.

Because our vehicle needed a minimum of two wheels, I needed to adjust the submarine’s design a little bit and decided to put water wheels in those tube things.

And then my next decision was to make the eldritch eel using stippling (shading with dots). On my 18 x 24 inch paper…

Pro tip: Don’t do that if you have any self respect.

I spent days stippling, getting what felt like zero progress done.

And then the dots were finished.

And then I have no progress shots of me painting it because I was deliriously painting until 5 AM the morning it was due. I do have what I submitted though.

And I didn’t like it lol. Don’t trust any decision made after 3 AM, pro tip. I revisited it over a week after submitting it and got rid of the pink on its face (what was I thinking?) and made the text brighter and more luminous.

Weirdly enough, the most miserable part of this project wasn’t even the stippling. I got used to that, it was relaxing even. The fucking letters gave me the most trouble. I hate painting letters never make me do it again <- gonna have to do it again.