Two down, one to go! Wednesday is the last class of the semester, and I'm still working to get all of that work done. I did this little spot as the last assignment in my Special Studies Illustration class. Cliff (the professor) clued me in to how cool spots are. I tend to think of finished artwork as square, in a frame. It's so freeing to edit down to what's really necessary. When I started this idea, I had sidewalk, telephone pole, and a larger cast of characters (ant, mantis, slug.) It's fun to reduce!
Cool stuff. It must be very satisfying to make the most of whitespace.
ReplyDeleteThe part about reduction sounds a bit like sculpture: start with a block of marble and carve away the bits that aren't part of the sculpture.