My Art Journey

      Yes, today's the day.  The final art project from my class.  The assignment is: Take what you've learned so far this semester and make a design.  So, I'll be using my Elephant Stamp from earlier in the blog as a starting point.  I could make a new stamp, but it's final's week and I'm trying to be realistic and kind to myself and my time.  Haha   The plan:  1.     A djust the coloring of the stamp using Photoshop  2.     A dd design fundamentals like line to make it more of an emblem or logo 3.     Vectorize the new design 4.     Find a product I want to add the design to, this means looking at different customizable product websites. 5.      Add the final image to a product like a coffee mug or something. Step one!  Take a picture of my stamp.  I'm looking at this and wondering to myself, how could this become a logo or an emblem?  I think that if ...

 Check out my teacher's blog on this project here . For this project, we had to create a design and then turn it into a pattern.  I thought it would be cool to do a pattern within a pattern.   First, I came up with a color palette using this super helpful video .  It tells you how to whip up a palette in Procreate. Next came creating my design.   I work at a hospital in the emergency room and thought it would be fun to make a pattern for work. My first step here was to  sketch of a basic idea, which was a cardiac monitor that displayed the name of my work.  I started out with the monitor screen and the writing of the leads.  I then tried to add a syringe.  Next I thought it would be cool if a stethoscope were to lead into the display, so I added that, the rest of the monitor, and then a syringe drawing up some medicine.  I liked it but thought the spacing could be better.  I drew an idea where the stethoscope merges over ...