Here is the final piece. There are a few details missing (mainly the floral design on the fan) that I didn't complete because I wanted to start my new project (I'll probably share that with you at some point) but overall I'm quite pleased with this. If I was to draw the floral design, I would use oil pastels which I haven't yet used on this. The mediums I have used are: coloured pencils, watercolour paint, acrylic paint, black fineliner and coloured biros. I made the background by marbling 8 pieces of A5 lined notepaper, with blue and red marbling ink. I love how this ties in with the theme and how little bits of this design show through on some drawings. However, what I don't like about this final piece (as well as the fact that it is not quite finished), is that it doesn't have the depth of the actual photo. What I mean by this is that I haven't made some of the colours bright enough to stand out and in some areas the tone isn't up to scratch. I regret using project life cards (the rectangles with words on or macaroons on) in the photo because they don't really have any noticeable tone to recreate, so they look very flat and dull on the final piece. Also, the shape of the glasses is completely wrong-I can never draw glasses right so I don't know why I included them in the photo! But for a first final piece I think I have done well to recreate the photo to a decent standard.
So that's my final piece! Hopefully I'll be back in 2 weeks like planned.
Over to you...
What did you think of my final piece? Let me know in the comments. Also do you take art at school? What's it like?
