Week10-Memory

Craft: For my memory illustrations, I used very simple techniques. First, I used the elipse tool to create the polka dots and heads. Next, I used the drawing tool to make some of the abstract shapes such as the limbs, shoes and bed. I used a lot of different colors as well as the gradient tool. Also, I used the stretch, and scale tools to change the size of the bear and human girl.

Concept: The concept of this series was to illustrate a surreal situation coming from a very normal situation. In the first illustration you see a girl sitting on her bed with a stuffed animal bear. The colors of the room are very realistic (this is how my room actually looks; with polka dots on the walls and pink furniture). Then, in the second illustration and third illustration everything becomes surreal. This is to show that a person's memory can create all sorts of different scenerios and stories. In one illustration the girl is tiny compared to the lifesize bear, and in the third illustration they are both the same size. Also, the decorations on the walls are changed to show that it is also no longer realistic.

Composition: The characters in the illustrations are always placed in the center of the bed. This is because they are the main idea to the story that the series tells. The bear and girl are positioned very close to one another so it appears as though they are holding one another similar to the way someone would normally hold a stuffed animal. When the girl is small, I positioned the bear's arms differently so it looks like the bear is holding her too.