week 8

craft: For this illustration, I decided to do a rough outline of the water bottle that I was referencing from. I used a thinner brush, and drew rough squiggles and lines to form the outside of the water bottle. I then did a horizon line to give the background some shape. After doing this, I chose a lighter blue color and began painting the background with a very large brush.

I decided that the blue that I chose was a nice contrast to the black bottle, and then decided to fill the bottom of the bottle with white polygons shapes. I felt these colors worked well together. I chose to put a fill in the bottom polygons with a black outline, while the shapes in the upper part of the bottle are just outlined in white to show the differences in volumes. Instead of doing just complimentary colors for my series, I decided to just do any type of colors, as to broaden my range for the color section.

The outlined and filled shapes in the bottom of the bottle give the bottle a more voluminous feel, and keeps the illustration's message clear, that this is in fact a bottle with some form of liquid. The shapes are all various sizes, and have no pattern or specific size requirements, they are all randomly put there to give the bottle a sharp yet free look. The lines also do not have any specific direction or shape, they were made to look free and messy to contrast the very defined shapes inside the bottle. This is my favorite piece because of the color combinations and freeness of the pen drawing.

concept: The concept behind this piece goes along with the title I chose for my style, which is 'framed mass'. I think that this displays the style well, because of the way the shapes are framed by the black pen, even if the marks are uneven and messy. I did not intentionally make this my style, but eventually as I continued to do the illustrations, the pattern was obvious in the pictures that I made. It is obvious that in this piece and in the rest of the series, that the water bottle is outlined in some sort of way, and there is some kind of volume in every piece.

The concept of the shapes and the lines both being in each piece was to display a flexibility in the make of the illustrations. It allowed me to be free with the way I would paint the illustration, while at the same time leave a common theme within each piece. Also the way the lines in this piece are not stiff helps this piece stray away from reality and allows me to be more creative in the way i constructed these pieces.

composition: At first doing the illustrations, I was being very loose with my compositions. However, as I continued, my compositions became more similar. All of the pieces are generally in the same place of the page, and about the same size. Most of them have different brush styles, but you should be able to tell that each illustration is of the same object. All of the illustrations are rough while at the same time very sharp because of the contrasting shapes with the brush strokes.

In these illustrations, the color is essential to each of them. Starting off just using complimentary colors, I changed that by using any color that worked well with the composition of the bottle. Making them contrast was important and would make it easier to catch someone's eye. I also thought that the rough pen marks with the straightness of the shapes would bring an interesting affect to the composition.

I used the filled shapes at the bottom of each bottle to show volume and make the illustration look somewhat realistic in that sense. I wanted to show the differences from the middle of the bottle, where the shapes were just outlined, and the bottom, where the liquid would be in real life, and fill it. Each composition also has a horizon line or a shadow to give the picture more shape and fill.