Bob Morris: 2012

Wednesday 22 August 2012

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OhhDeer - Pillow Fight Competition

I actually wasn't going to blog this.As my lack of confidence in my work, made the thought of blogging that i didn't win in the possible future a blog I'd rather not blog hah, if that makes sense.I only do now as it seems a shame not to link my design to their competition entries gallery, where mine in reflection does look quite pretty.
I heard about this competition through a friend who suggested i enter it.Until that point i had sadly not heard of their website."Sadly" I say, as their designs and products are beautiful and i have since been addicted to looking through their galleries.They focus mainly on an illustrative /abstract /kiche area of illustration which i just love.You you should definitely have a look see yourself.

I decided very quickly on my idea.It isn't really laced with symbolism or metaphors.I wanted to draw a cute scene in pale pastel shades, more than likely involving imagery like teapots, cake, biscuits and sort of vintage kawaii influenced illustration.I honed in slightly on drawings i had created in the past in this style.

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As I've been messing around with that new app for my tablet called ArtRage i decided to draw in that.All the tools are digital replicas of traditional medias like oils, water colors, pencil, crayon etc.I decided to give my design and extra vintage feel drawing in 'pencil' and later coloring with 'water colors'.I think i used some pastels too actually.The result is a very watery, light and i think dreamy feel to the feel of the picture and how it corresponds to subject matter.
This was the initial drawing...

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I left this sketch untouched or looked at for about 2 weeks up until yesterday when i remembered I had started it and thought, shit I've well missed the deadline.Fortunately there's still almost 2 weeks left.So yesterday I tried out some filters and effects on it.(As you can see in my last post) - I really like this as a sketch and for what it is.It would look cute on a card more than a pillow as it was.So I decided after my Weeto's this morning that this was the one...

Personally i think this would make a well cute pillow.But so far there's been some amazing entries, so I guess we'll see what happens.
This is my design on their page too :3

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