I original drafted the individual cars for this counting chart 4 months ago. Inspired by my time at SCAD LACOSTE and the ferris wheel in Place Bellacour, as well as children's poster design, I wanted to create an interactive and functional piece of art.
Each car has the amount of characters corresponding to the number it represents. My favorites are car 3, 8 and 9. Can you count them all?
Ferris wheel cars 1-1o.
While creating this piece I encountered a series of creative roadblocks. Roadblocks that necessitated learning, and led me to new techniques I hadn't tried before.
My main roadblock came in the style department. I knew i wanted to have an organic, traditional touch, but being a digital artist, i struggled with capturing a sense of whimsy and energy in my first rendering. I felt my colors were too flat, and my image too sterile. So I went back to the drawing board...literally.
I broke out my watercolors and inks and experimented with a mixed media approach. MY thinking was that if I created my elements traditionally I could achieve the organic textures and sense of energy I so desired.
While I enjoyed the exercise, my renderings left much to be desired. I missed the convenience of the "undo" button, and couldn't find my soulmate of an ink pen. I felt stumped. Discouraged, my piece sat gathering digital dust in a forgotten file on my desktop.
That is...until MOCCA Fest.
I attended MOCCA Fest for the first time this year. The amount of creators and creative approaches to illustration and sequential art got my gears turning again. I observed examples of riso printed art and thought "How do I make THAT?"
one google search later led me to retrosupply.co's riso brush packs. The rest is history.
