So Illustration Friday was a massive fail. I did a few weeks of responding to the weekly word, and some of the images, I do actually like, but I just kind of lost interest with it, I was put off with a lot of the really bad entries that were on the website, and didn't really feel like it was benefiting me much. I understand the importance of being able to respond quickly to briefs, however I feel like I could do this for a much more worthy cause. I also don't think these types of briefs benefit my practice much, as I need to get more into spending lots of time working on one image, instead of just creating really fast throw away things.
The think this one works well, because I played lots with texture again, scanning in paint textures and combining them with digital collage, and of course, using my signature (haha) pastely lilacy colours. I stil think my work could benefit more for stepping completely away from using digital methods and focussing on creating beautiful hand crafted illustrations.
This piece helped me to mess around with different brushed for a while, I'd just bough Kyle T Webster's megapack and was lovvinngg all those brushes, so it gave me a chance to indulge in those and see what brush works best for different line qualities. Although I don't particularly like the final image, I enjoyed the process and doing something that was a little bit different.
If I were to do Illustration Friday again I would set a theme to give me some constraints to work to, possibly also a limited colour palette, I'd want to spend more time on each piece to make a beautiful intricate looking image, rather than something that only took me an hour and a bit.
This was one of the weekly drawings, the word of the week was punch, I got really excited with this one, but kept being unhappy with the way it turned out, got too busy with other briefs and had to abandon it, I'd love to come back to it and finish it at a later date, because I do like the looking down from above composition.
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