wave

On my final project I decided to drawl out my own design. I started out wanting to make a tattoo style design and ended up with a wave that had flowers by the side of it. The most challenging part of this project is to come up with something to make because you had to decide on your own what you’re going to do with no guide lines.
I drew out my whole project in pencil then scanned it into illustrator. I traced all of the lines with the brush tool and then straightened them out to make the waves look like they are flowing smoothly. After making all of the lines I started working on the flowers. I had to redo them a few times so that they looked tattoo styled.
My next biggest task was to figure out what to do with the waves to make them look real. I tried doing a gradient on them but it wasn’t turning out too good so I used the brush tool and drew out all of the waves using to different colors of blue. I finished all of the waves and used the brush tool again to make the tops of the waves to flow evenly with the rest of the wave. The background had I loot of extra space so I made a sun looking design using the paint brush. I used a very colorful gradient on the flowers because solid colors looked kind of weird for all of the flowers.
What I liked most about this project is how you could do whatever you wanted with it. Some of the past projects I didn’t like that much because you couldn’t really draw much stuff out for them. The thing I didn’t like about this project is that it was kind of hard to think of something to do because the idea would sound good in your head but when you start to make it the project doesn’t turn out what you thought it was going to look like. I also had a very hard time to trying to pick colors for my project.