Design sheets

After doing my artist research I began creating my design sheets. For my first design sheet I took different parts of my research from my sketch book which I wanted to include in my design, and recreated them on a bigger scale. First of all, I wanted to interpret a rose into my design, therefore I created this rose from observation using coloured pencils, however I changed the colour of it so that it stood out more. I used two shades of each colour to create this, for example I used a darker red on the outline of the rose, and darker green on the outlines of the leaves and then lighter shades to add more depth to it. I also wanted to include  a waterfall that I had previously created within my sketchbook, however I also changed the colours of this so that it looked more eye catching. I first used a blue water colour paint as the base colour of the waterfall and then used a white ink to add more detail so that you could see different speckles of water within it. I then decided that I wanted to include a lion, however I wasn't really pleased with how it turned out as I decided to use a material I hadn't used before, which was acrylic paint. I feel that it didn't turn out near enough or create the effect that I was really hoping for, I then used coloured pencils on the face of the lion which also didn't work very well as it looked very streaky, so this is something that I wanted to change on my second design sheet. Everything that I have included in this design sheet was inspired by both of the artists that I had researched, Julie Rhodes and Oriol Angrill Jordà.

 

My second design sheet is one of my favourite pieces. I decided that I wanted the lion as the main feature of my design, which linked to my first artist Julie Rhodes, however I wanted to use the layout of my second artist Oriol Angrill Jordà, by merging everything together using the landscape and rose. I created the rose in the same media as my first design sheet but included more darker tones so that some of the shapes were more defined. I then decided to merge the waterfall into the main of the lion, also using the same media as my first design sheet, but I made the base colour more ombré so that it wasn't just a block colour. Also, instead of using the white ink to add more detail, I used a darker blue paint to make it look more like a waterfall, but I did use the white ink at the bottom to show the water splashing onto the surface of the lake. Now, as I didn't like the effect on the lions face on the first design sheet, I used a different type of coloured pencils, which worked a lot better than the first material.