Flower Design


For this project, we were supposed to draw either 20 flowers, trees, birds, or houses. I chose to draw 20 flowers. This was fairly difficult for me as I am not a talented artist at all, so I really just hopes that the sketches would turn out slightly decent. I looked up different pictures of flowers and did maybes to draw them as accurately as I could. I drew real flowers as well as some more abstract flowers.

 When I got to the illustrator step in this project, I decided to stray from what I had drawn. I typically find that I do much better with these types of projects when I just wing it, so that's exactly what I did. I started out by making a simple circle and adding abstract petal-like shapes off of it. Originally, I thought that this would just be my flower. Later on, however, I decided to make it an abstract sun with plain flowers underneath. I decided to give the some more vibrant colors to the sun than the plants to draw more attention to it and to show that the sun was giving life to the plants.

 Overall, I am pretty happy with what I made. I like that I was able to put a twist on this assignment instead of just creating a simple flower. I do wish that I made the flowers pop a little more, especially the black stems. Other than that, I am very happy with the colors I used. I love the colorful sun and how it is such a stark contrast from everything else around it.

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