Work in Progress

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Each of the collages I made became one to its own. In reality, I had no vision to each one of them, whichever image I decided to drag first into the stage was the one that led to the end product to the collage. The one thing I kept in my mind was to tell a story in each of the collages.

The drag and drop possibilities with the library of dingbats, clearly aided on the process of my creations. Being able to drop an image and then let the story unfold by placing different images together led to the (to my opinion) funny stories that came as the depictions of each collage.

Making the collages actually brought me closer to my work. Before I saw them just as images that I had created, but putting them together to create a story made it even better. The connection I got from seeing an image interact with another is quite a great feeling, just as the last collage on this page. Modifying the snowman with a ninja costume made me giggle a little as I saw something I created become something, that I think is quite cool.

30 Dingbats

The theme I came up (even though it is a loose concept) is related to the Christmas season to the extent that it may cover how a person could have their day go (scale of great to worse), which led to various ideas of what the theme were to be before the drawings started taking shape.

My mind is not very creative, so as I was making drawings I would consult some of my references to take some inspiration from them. There are some drawings there that are very close to some of the references, yet others that came up in the nick of the moment.

During the process of drawing the dingbats I came across pressure sensibility, brush sizes and coloring through layers. The methods weren't part of my original plan, but it was very refreshing being able to use this tools as an aid to discover better drawing styles.

Inspiration to my Theme

Well the inspiration this images gave me, was that of an evil/horrible or somehow a bad Christmas.