- Spinning wheel
- Spinning top
- Spin class
- Bicycles
- Washing machines
- Dancing
- Record player
- Board games
- Spinning a web
Thumbnails
From my initial ideas, I developed the spinning top, spinning wheels, spinning a web and washing machine concepts. I really enjoyed drawing the spiders and was prepared to take an illustration of a spider spinning its web forward for a final piece, yet I thought in hindsight maybe it was a bit obvious and that I should push myself more and come up with something more imaginative. For some bizarre reason, the image of a hamster running in the drum of a washing machine popped into my head, which then lead on to the development of the hamster going snorkelling in the washing machine... I thought it was more interesting than a dangling spider so I went with it!
I found it really difficult to make the hamster look like it was swimming, especially positioning the flippers at the correct angles. I gained some advice from my illustrator housemates (previous owners of rodents) that animals walk with opposition to their front and back set of legs. After a few sketches I found that this looked a lot more like the hamster was paddling in the water rather than doing a superman pose.
Composition wise, I gathered that it would look more aesthetically and compositionally pleasing if I were to present the contents of the image within a square as opposed to A4. Taking into consideration future illustration Friday's, aiming to complete 10 in total, I will produce five square and five A4 images, which will make it easier when coming to present as well as helping me adjust to different canvas sizes.
Reference Imagery
The images that I used for reference really helped me to achieve the action of the hamster swimming in the water, as well as the anatomy of hamster itself. It was challenging to draw the flippers onto the hamster as I had to make this up due to there being a significant lack of images of hamsters wearing flippers on the internet... To overcome this, I looked at a few more images of humans diving to study the position and movement of the flippers, and applied this in the correct way to the hamsters feet.
From my initial ideas, I developed the spinning top, spinning wheels, spinning a web and washing machine concepts. I really enjoyed drawing the spiders and was prepared to take an illustration of a spider spinning its web forward for a final piece, yet I thought in hindsight maybe it was a bit obvious and that I should push myself more and come up with something more imaginative. For some bizarre reason, the image of a hamster running in the drum of a washing machine popped into my head, which then lead on to the development of the hamster going snorkelling in the washing machine... I thought it was more interesting than a dangling spider so I went with it!
I found it really difficult to make the hamster look like it was swimming, especially positioning the flippers at the correct angles. I gained some advice from my illustrator housemates (previous owners of rodents) that animals walk with opposition to their front and back set of legs. After a few sketches I found that this looked a lot more like the hamster was paddling in the water rather than doing a superman pose.
Composition wise, I gathered that it would look more aesthetically and compositionally pleasing if I were to present the contents of the image within a square as opposed to A4. Taking into consideration future illustration Friday's, aiming to complete 10 in total, I will produce five square and five A4 images, which will make it easier when coming to present as well as helping me adjust to different canvas sizes.
Reference Imagery
The images that I used for reference really helped me to achieve the action of the hamster swimming in the water, as well as the anatomy of hamster itself. It was challenging to draw the flippers onto the hamster as I had to make this up due to there being a significant lack of images of hamsters wearing flippers on the internet... To overcome this, I looked at a few more images of humans diving to study the position and movement of the flippers, and applied this in the correct way to the hamsters feet.
Process
Again, I used photoshop brushes to create the image, and I can see myself making improvements each week which I am really pleased about. I built up layers of the hamster to ensure that its fur looked textured and fluffy with different patches of colour, and I did the same for the water using different shades of blue and varying opacities. In hindsight, I did rush the image a little bit because my laptop was running out of power (what a poor excuse) so the washing machine looks a little more sketchy than I'd hoped, but its not too bad, and gives a more contemporary feel with an added sense of movement.
Again, I used photoshop brushes to create the image, and I can see myself making improvements each week which I am really pleased about. I built up layers of the hamster to ensure that its fur looked textured and fluffy with different patches of colour, and I did the same for the water using different shades of blue and varying opacities. In hindsight, I did rush the image a little bit because my laptop was running out of power (what a poor excuse) so the washing machine looks a little more sketchy than I'd hoped, but its not too bad, and gives a more contemporary feel with an added sense of movement.
Evaluation
Admittedly I don't think this is my best piece of work ever, but I'm glad that I am pushing the boat out more in terms of concepts, as my work in the past has been fairly literal and cliche at times. I'm so pleased with the way my hamster turned out and looked so effective with the brushes I used. I'd like to develop on this further, and potentially look at downloading or making some custom brushes.
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