Monday, 27 March 2017

Simplification - Blowing a dandelion


I found this exercise to be useful for me in making the adjustment to working in illustrator on my sticker due to the fact that in illustrator one has to break everything up into layers/ components and think much more in a shape driven way rather than a linear one.   

I started out just drawing the act of blowing a dandelion
before gradually stripping my images back to the
simplest forms and most essential information.
The hardest part was trying to simplify the actual shape
of a dandelion and the bits which fly off when you blow
on one. I was also unsure about to depict a person
blowing.


I think I did a pretty good job in the end, bending the stem of
the dandelion to insinuate the force from the blow worked
pretty convincingly I think. I'm not sure i even needed the mouth
really but then without it I think it would have seemed much
less obvious that it's a dandelion, due to how much I reduced
it's shape. 

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