It's been a while...

It's been over a month since I have updated my blog about my artboard. Since then we have had holidays and have entered the final term of the school year, this week is the last week left for the term before study leave. During the holidays I was able to come in 3 of 4 days so I could begin a new series with a new art style as well. I have created more than eight pieces that are all connected with the subject of the Black-eyed Susan flower, fractures, and eyes. I used sketchy and untidy lines (no matter how much it annoyed me in the beginning) because of the rough sketch that I originally used when I sketched the ideas out during class and did not have access to the actual application I use. From this sketch, my teacher gave me the advice to use this as my art style and continue to build off of that with my given subject matter. The next few pictures are a few of the pieces from this that will be going onto my board. 

This was the first piece I sketched and coloured with the new art style. You can see later how I have changed the colouration of the flowers to better suit the actual flower and how I've changed how I highlight the eyes.

This is the second piece done in the art style I changed to for the series. It lacks the fracture, which is one of my board's subject matters, but it shows the development of the flower with highlights and shadows. Additionally, there is a rough sketch line then a thicker baseline with all parts of the piece unlike before.

This piece was done much later on as I moved onto shifting from one set of art pieces to another. Again, this does not include the fracture subject. For this piece, I wanted to focus on the asymmetrical face with two matching eyes. As well, I wanted to experiment with a new form of background which I would use later on to make a singular eye based piece. I found that the purple contrasted well with yellow in the petals and eyes.

These next two pieces were ones I worked on for my first board that were not part of the subject matters including the Black-eyed Susan flower, fractures and eyes. These were made to continue with the subject matter of the feathers used in earlier pieces. I like working on these two since I was able to experiment with how to create the texture of the feather. The idea of white ink near the end of the quill was a result of me experimenting with the invert filter on the background.