#collectionartwork

In the first photograph, I had just begun my piece. I started sketching out my piece by simply creating an outline of all of the items in my inspiration picture, that being the final edited composition picture. This whole process was free hand, where I simply copied what was on my computer screen. I did not start adding any shading because I knew I wanted my primary medium to be sharpie because of their bold colours. Colour being such a prominent component of my collection, sharpies seemed fit.

I continued working on my base and i got around halfway done before I took it home to work on it and accidentally left it on the bus. This meant that I had to start the whole piece over, hence the reason I do not have many process pictures-the entire piece was completed within the span of a day and a half. 

I used the projector to trace the shape of each of the items in my picture in order to speed up the process. From there I spent the rest of the day colouring the entire piece with sharpie, which when completed left it quite two-dimensional. I then replicated the shadows from the inspiration on the original image which made the whole piece have more depth. Once all the shading was complete, I added replicas of some of the items I drew, such as stickers, on top of the actual piece.

I discovered a lot about my skill development through the process of this piece. I experimented with different forms of media and drawing techniques that I had never thought of trying, and my final artwork became a composition of both sharpie and pencils. I had never used sharpie to create an actual art piece before, and it was fairly easy to use as it is very opaque so it was able to perform the tasks that I needed it to, such as fill in the bright colours. I think that my final piece came out very interesting and cool using a combination of different techniques and mediums that I had never thought to try together and turned out to work very well together. 

I think that my final artwork was successful both aesthetically and emotionally. The objects are bright and cartoonish with realistic elements which was similar to my inspiration image. There are different textures which were able to be created using sketching pencils which I think was successful because of the vast differences of each item. 

Emotionally, my piece is successful because it conveys my goal theme of being reminiscent in both a happy and emotional way. All the objects are items that I collected during the summer, which is a time that I enjoy to look back upon. 

 Final Edited Composition 

I chose this as my final composition because it incorporates all of the elements incorporated represent the theme that I am trying to convey through this project of summer, brightness and colour. It was also the most aesthetically pleasing of all the arrangements, as it follows all the CRAP Principles and is generally the most visually appealing. I edited the photo using iPhoto in order to enhance all of the shadows of the objects and to show the contrast between each of the colours. The colours of the objects in my photo are all very bright, and mostly rainbow which all contrast against each other very well. There is a huge differentiation in the way the light hits each of the colours, and the objects are placed in a way where everything is super colour blocked against each other--even if the photo was in black and white, you would clearly be able to see the differences in each of the objects.