Inspired by a comment that @selfhelp4trolls left me on my previous post - Asking My Mom for Help - Part 2 - Getting Close to Finishing my Book, it so happened - this afternoon - that I created the drawing depicted above today's post.
It was done in a method that I had never used before ( which is kind of my style, as I tend to adapt and reinvent myself, especially when it comes to my creativity ).
I started out in a fairly normal way, by grabbing some paper and a ( fine liner ) pen. I decided to also grab some paint.
The theme I wanted to draw was based on a scene / chapter in my upcoming book, titled Fast Food. As it talks about the type of prey that predators pick and the book is about a character named Cold Turkey, who is a running bird, my mind decided to focus on race cars and put the bird inside one such a vehicle.
Now let's get back to the comment that selfhelp4trolls left on my last write up:
I always love when you mix photography with illustrations with MS paint š. I do hope you keep yourself to high standards and donāt settle (but also donāt overthink or put off!). Just imagine you are making my cover, I love it and so does everyone Iāve shown it to.
If you don't want to read that full post ( that I referred to earlier on ), his remark was related to me talking about making sketchies to illustrate my book.
The high standards part bugged me a little as I tend to think that my perfectionism stops me from finishing projects and often overcomplicates things but I also felt he has a point here.
Then the ( background ) photography vs illustrations part that he talks about, came to me, after I had finished my illustration.
I then walked outside ( in the blazing heat ) and took some pictures of the old Roman road next to the house that I'm renting.
I cut out my drawing with an old fashioned Stanley knife and, eventually ended up sticking it to my wall with adhesive tape by using a trick I learnt as a kid ( rolled up tape at the back of the drawing ).
I had transferred my camera's photos to my laptop ( that is attached to my movie projector and the road outside my house was now projected on a corner of my living room wall ( where I watch movies ).
It was actually after doing so that I sticked the drawing on the wall / road.
I then did a little bit of trickery in post, with my laptop's standard photo editor.
This one is for you @selfhelp4trolls !
I really hope that this also looks good in black and white,
as I plan to publish my book on Amazon kindle,
so people with E-readers can buy it too.
If not, I have some cool art to promote my book with or to use in any other way I come up with.
Alright, I'm gonna cut it short here. This part time introvert needs to be an extravert for a bit ( as is usually the case in the weekend ).
I'm pretty psyched though, that I managed to come up with this little art piece that I feel is way more than a mere illustration, let alone sketchie.
Now I think of it: one page illustrations in between the text / chapters might be pretty cool.
It's funny, as I had set out, this afternoon, to change my book's footnotes ( that are merely little jokes / extra information ) into end notes.
My mom had told me, after reading through my story, that the footnotes kind of bothered her and I understand. They interrupt the flow of reading.
The footnote to endnote process felt pretty much like a waste of time or, at least, very uncreative but I feel I totally made up for that with this hour or so of art-ing.
Until next time and viva a criatividade!
