Week 10

Craft:
To create these illustrations I used the program Adobe Illustrator. Using the pen tool and brushes I drew the background first. For most of the illustration I drew it using a Bamboo illustration tablet and stylus pen. After completing the background I drew the plant in the front. To create the plant I only drew one leaf and copied it many times. Using the color picker I changed the color of each leaf. Then I used the selection tool to change the size and direction to make each leaf vary. For the last illustration I selected everything and went to the brushes palette to change the stroke brush to give it a rougher feel. For the first illustration I added effects to the leaves, pot, carpet, and walls giving it a more realistic quality.

Composition:
Throughout this series I varied the composition. Webster dictionary defines composition as the arrangement into specific proportion or relation. For the composition of the first illustration I went with a traditional room setting with the plant in the corner and an abstract painting on the wall. The abstract painting on the wall is brighter and is the first thing you see when you look at the illustration. I wanted you to see this first because I really like abstract painting. For the second drawing I went with the traditional room but viewing the room from straight on rather than looking at a corner. This gives the idea that it could be in a different room. I drew the plant large because it is the main focus and main point of the illustration. For the last illustration I drew the plant on a deck out in nature. With the deck boards and railings showing where it is at.


Concept:
For this series I chose a concept of a plant which relates to how someone grows overtime. This growth that I’m showing is the growth of learning the program and creating more interesting illustrations the more practice using the program. For the first illustration I wanted to connect growth with my love of abstract paintings so I placed the plant in one corner and the painting on the other wall. In my second Illustration I was going for the plant to look as it was wilting because of the stresses of trying to keep up with everything. The growth that I had is fading away. The last illustration brings the rebirth of the plant outside in nature where it all started. With hard work you can complete what you started. I decided to make this illustration have a rougher painted stroke because nature isn’t perfect. The naturalistic world is rougher.

For the entire series I kept the colors consistent. Mainly I used the same greens and same browns. Throughout the serious I kept the object the same. I also used brushes in each illustration. The differences between each illustration are where they are composed. One illustration is composed in the corner of a room, another in just a room in front of a straight wall, and the last outside on a deck. Another difference between each illustration is the use of strokes. Some use rougher stocks and the others smoother. The last difference that is varied from each illustration is the size of the plant.