wild things collage

my last assignment in collage was to do four more 8 x 10 pieces and they had to be illustrations. i couldn't really think of anything, but i did know i wanted to do something for children's book illustration. so my professor asked what my favorite children's book was and i said "where the wild things are". so i ended up doing my last collage illustrations based on the book.

i'm only posting one of them. this one is my favorite and also the last one i did. and i was mad because i came up with this technique on my last piece. and this technique i did would have made my life easier and i wouldn't have wasted a lot of time.

the background is just torn tissue paper. the first layer being yellow. then i laid on the pink tissue paper. the pink tissue paper was suppose to act as a speech bubble. for max and the wild thing i drew them on tracing paper, inked them and then colored them in with color pencil. i went over the color pencil with turpenoid. i love this stuff, it help blends in the color pencil. i felt like i was painting without making the tracing paper too wet. after that i glued it to the surface. next i drew "i'll eat you up" on some tracing paper, went over the letters with a red marker, cut them out, and pasted them on the board. oh and i did the collage on some canson board. i really like it. it's also within my budget. e w e

over all this specific process went so quickly and i wish i would have came up with it at the beginning of the assignment. next time i would use vellum instead of tracing paper. i only used tracing paper because it's something i had. it worked pretty good though.

thanks for reading.

second set of collages

for our next collage project we had to do 4, 8 x 10 collages. two had to be abstract and 2 had to be illustrations. overall the whole class did better than before. like everyone improved. my professor was so pleased to see how we evolved from the first set of collages. here are mine:

here are my abstract pieces. my professor said i'm good at them. she really liked the layers. i liked these. i found them relaxing while i was working them. like i could lay back and just watch them come together on their own.

these were my two illustration ones. when it got to these two, my professor thought i was too stiff with these. and i agree. i wish i had more time to work on them. she thought i could have slanted some of the elements like i did with my abstract pieces to make them more interesting.

for our next assignment, we are doing 4 more in the same size. i really want to produce better ones. and try a different technique. i hope i get my ideas together before class so i can just get started on them so i can spend the appropriate time on each piece.

a few collage trading cards

we had to do 10 trading cards. here are my favorites.

this is the prince hare. i love my line work on him. this one is my favorite one of all. i also like the colors i used. i just love the way these colors look. i don't know why. i feel like purple is a royal color. it's also pretty cool in temperature. i also like colors that are analogous to purple.

this is my bunny girl. she has a hood, but i cut it off here. she's walking away from the castle. again i love the colors i used. 

i'll add this one in here. i wish i would have added more line work into these two. i think it would have made this one stronger. because of the three this one feels week. i don't know. maybe that's just my opinion. maybe if they had more color? like in person, they're covered with pink tissue paper, but since i edited it, you can't really see it here. but even if i could see the pink tissue paper, i still feel like i should have added more to the figures.

i used pictures of cathedrals to make the castles. like some i just cut parts of them off. some i added with another building to make a new one. and i painted over them. after my professor saw these she asked if i like cute and of course i said yes. she feels that i need to pursue this because it's marketable, but i need to figure out how to make them sophisticated. and i agree. but i'm kind of loss on how i would go about doing that. if you all have any suggestions please share them with me.