Another art project finished for my college 2D design class. This is a coloring book collage and out of all the art project stuff I've done in this class, this is by far, my favorite. Here's the steps on how I got this done!
The books I used are called "A Passion for Japan" and "Enchanted Forest". Most of the designs come from the latter.
I picked a couple of designs. For the squirrel and fox design, I took the squirrel's head and combined it with the fox's body and for the tail, it's the fox's but with parts of the squirrel's tail.
I have my own tracing paper from Hobby Lobby, but I realized it was the wrong size. But I traced some designs in the book and cut pieces separately so I can transfer them on the 18" x 24" tracing paper I picked up at the college. For the flower design (see top image, bottom right), I took a part of the flower so I can create a sun. As for the tree, I didn't want to trace every petal, so I decided to trace some petals.
Here's the draft:
I then inked the design up.
After erasing some pencil marks, I was planning on having this as my final:
But I wanted to get some feedback from my professor. I felt like it was empty, so she suggested me to add some animals and plants. And I did just that.
This is my final design:
In conclusion, this was my most favorite project to work on and I had fun! It made me get more creative, and this project makes me want to do more like this in the future. Originally, I was gonna include a humming bird, but I scrapped it. About this design, the squirrel-fox creature is the guardian of the forest, watching over the animals and plants. I think that's how I want to describe this piece :).
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